Economic Research Service

The Economic Research Service (ERS) is a division of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that conducts economic research and analysis related to agriculture, food, and rural development. ERS provides policymakers, stakeholders, and the public with valuable information and data to help inform decision-making and policy development.

Economic Research Service is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Agriculture, Economics, Federal Government, Research, and Open Data.

Economic Research Service’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, support, authentication, changelog, sandbox, and 21 more developer resources.

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41.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
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2 APIs

Agriculture Economics Federal Government Research Open Data Geospatial Statistics

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 41.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 5.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.9 / 17

Access Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 5.5 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
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Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 24.0 — up to +19.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 34.2 — up to +13.2 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Agriculture and Food (Farm Data, Nutrition)	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-
US Federal API Programs (api.data.gov, Login.gov, GSA MAS, FedRAMP)	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

USDA ERS Data APIs

Access ERS data products in machine-readable formats for analysis or integration into your own applications. Delivered via api.data.gov as REST endpoints. Requires an api.data.g...

USDA ERS Geospatial APIs

Integrate ERS map layers into the GIS package of your choice, on their own or mashed up with other geospatial data.

Economic Research Service API pricing

Rate limits

Default hourly limit per API key: 1000 requests per hour
DEMO_KEY hourly limit: 30 requests per hour
DEMO_KEY daily limit: 50 requests per day

Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Economic Research Service Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Economic Research Service Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Economic Research Service Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Economic Research Service Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Economic Research Service Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Components

DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

SourceCode

SourceCode

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Twitter

Twitter

Source (apis.yml)

aid: economic-research-service
name: Economic Research Service
description: The Economic Research Service (ERS) is a division of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that
  conducts economic research and analysis related to agriculture, food, and rural development. ERS provides policymakers,
  stakeholders, and the public with valuable information and data to help inform decision-making and policy development.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - usda-ree-ers/arms-data-api
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/economic-research-service.png
tags:
- Agriculture
- Economics
- Federal Government
- Research
- Open Data
- Geospatial
- Statistics
tags_raw:
- Agriculture
- Economics
- Federal Government
- Research
- Open Data
- Geospatial
- Statistics
- Federal-Government
url: https://www.ers.usda.gov/
created: '2024-12-25'
modified: '2026-09-06'
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: economic-research-service:ers-data-apis
  name: USDA ERS Data APIs
  description: Access ERS data products in machine-readable formats for analysis or integration into your own applications.
    Delivered via api.data.gov as REST endpoints. Requires an api.data.gov key.
  humanURL: https://www.ers.usda.gov/developer/data-apis
  baseURL: https://api.ers.usda.gov/data
  tags:
  - Agriculture
  - Data
  - Economics
  properties:
  - url: https://www.ers.usda.gov/developer/data-apis
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://www.ers.usda.gov/developer/data-apis/arms-data-api
    type: APIReference
  - url: https://api.data.gov/signup/
    type: SignUp
  - url: https://www.ers.usda.gov/developer/data-apis/arms-data-api/updates-and-revisions
    type: ChangeLog
  - url: https://github.com/USDA-REE-ERS/ARMS-Data-API
    type: SourceCode
  - url: https://api.ers.usda.gov/data/arms/graphql
    type: GraphQL
  - url: authentication/economic-research-service-authentication.yml
    type: Authentication
- aid: economic-research-service:ers-geospatial-apis
  name: USDA ERS Geospatial APIs
  description: Integrate ERS map layers into the GIS package of your choice, on their own or mashed up with other geospatial
    data.
  humanURL: https://www.ers.usda.gov/developer/geospatial-apis
  baseURL: https://gisportal.ers.usda.gov/server/rest/services
  tags:
  - Agriculture
  - Geospatial
  - GIS
  properties:
  - url: https://www.ers.usda.gov/developer/geospatial-apis
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://gisportal.ers.usda.gov/server/rest/services
    type: APIReference
  - url: wsdl/economic-research-service-arcgis-server-catalog.wsdl
    type: WSDL
  - url: wsdl/economic-research-service-rural-atlas-income-mapserver.wsdl
    type: WSDL
  - url: wsdl/economic-research-service-fara-2025-straightline-mapserver.wsdl
    type: WSDL
  - url: wsdl/economic-research-service-soap-services.yml
    type: WSDL
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/economic-research-service-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/usda-ers
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/usda-economic-research-service
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ers.usda.gov/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.ers.usda.gov/developer/
- url: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves
  type: Blog
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.ers.usda.gov/developer/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.ers.usda.gov/developer/api-terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.ers.usda.gov/privacy/privacy-statement
- type: Support
  url: https://www.ers.usda.gov/contact-us
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/USDA-REE-ERS
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/USDA_ERS
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/economic-research-service-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/economic-research-service-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/economic-research-service-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/economic-research-service-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/economic-research-service-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/economic-research-service-changelog.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/economic-research-service-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/economic-research-service-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/economic-research-service-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/economic-research-service-components.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/economic-research-service-data-model.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/economic-research-service-sandbox.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/economic-research-service-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/economic-research-service-llms.txt
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/economic-research-service-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-06'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 17
  pass: local-v3

Economic Research Service API — frequently asked questions

Does Economic Research Service have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Economic Research Service, including USDA ERS Data APIs and USDA ERS Geospatial APIs.

How do I authenticate with the Economic Research Service API?

Economic Research Service uses bearer-token authentication (0 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Economic Research Service Authentication.

Is the Economic Research Service API ready for AI agents?

Economic Research Service has a Kin Score of 41.0 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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