# Natural Resources Conservation Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/natural-resources-conservation-service/  
**Website:** https://www.nrcs.usda.gov  
**APIs profiled:** 4

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is a federal agency under the United States Department of Agriculture that works to help farmers, ranchers, and landowners conserve and protect natural resources. They provide technical assistance, financial assistance, and conservation planning to help individuals and communities implement conservation practices that improve soil health, water quality, and wildlife habitat.

## Kin Score — 25.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 25.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 52.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 20.5 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **NRCS Soil Data Access** — Soil Data Access (SDA) is a USDA-NRCS web service that supports ad hoc query and real-time delivery of official soil survey data (SSURGO and STATSGO2) for any user-defined geogr...
- **Natural Resources Conservation Service Query API** — The Query API from Natural Resources Conservation Service — 1 operation(s) for query.
- **Natural Resources Conservation Service SOAP API** — The SOAP API from Natural Resources Conservation Service — 1 operation(s) for soap.
- **Natural Resources Conservation Service Spatial API** — The Spatial API from Natural Resources Conservation Service — 2 operation(s) for spatial.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Natural Resources Conservation Service Agentic Access** — 4 operations · 2 acting

## Security (1)

- **Natural Resources Conservation Service Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Natural Resources Conservation Service Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Federal-Government, Agriculture, Conservation, Soil, Natural Resources

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