# Agricultural Marketing Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/agricultural-marketing-service/  
**Website:** https://www.ams.usda.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), oversees programs in five commodity areas: cotton and tobacco, dairy, fruits and vegetables, livestock and seeds, and poultry. AMS provides testing, standardization, grading, and market news services. AMS operates several public APIs for agricultural market data including the Market Analysis Reporting System (MARS) API for real-time commodity market news and the Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting System (LMPRS) API for livestock price data.

## Kin Score — 34.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 34.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 29.1 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 22.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 46.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 50.0 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **USDA Local Food Directories API** — The USDA Local Food Directories API provides data sharing access to directory information for farmers markets, food hubs, on-farm markets, community supported agriculture (CSA) ...
- **Agricultural Marketing Service Offices API** — USDA AMS market news offices
- **Agricultural Marketing Service Reports API** — Agricultural market news reports across all commodity types
- **USDA AMS LMPRS API (Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting)** — The Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting System (LMPRS) API provides programmatic access to federally mandated livestock price report data. The API requires no authentication for...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Agricultural Marketing Service Agentic Access** — 3 operations

## Security (2)

- **Agricultural Marketing Service Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Agricultural Marketing Service Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Agricultural Marketing Service Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Agricultural Price Monitoring** — Track commodity prices across livestock, dairy, fruits, and vegetables to support trading, purchasing, and production decisions.
- **Market Analysis and Research** — Pull historical and current market news data for academic research, economic analysis, and policy work.
- **Supply Chain Integration** — Integrate USDA market news data into supply chain management and procurement systems for real-time pricing.
- **Local Food System Mapping** — Use the Local Food Directories API to locate and integrate data about farmers markets, CSAs, and food hubs.
- **Commodity Price Alerts** — Build automated price monitoring systems using the MARS API to trigger alerts when prices cross defined thresholds.

## Tags

Agriculture, Federal-Government, Market News, Livestock, Dairy, Fruits And Vegetables, Cotton, Tobacco

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/agricultural-marketing-service/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.