Commodities Data

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

An overview of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

  • The United States Department of Agriculture issues data on U.S. pricing, news, analysis, and fundamentals.
  • USDA is broken out into different agencies, of which we provide data from Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), Economic Research Service (ERS), Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) and National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS).
  • USDA publishes a wide range of subjects, from traditional crops, such as corn and wheat, to specialties, such as fruits and vegetables; from calves born to hogs slaughtered; from agricultural prices to land in farms.

Key Facts 

  • Geographical coverage
    United States
  • History
    From 1919
  • Data format
    CSV
    Delimited
    GZIP
    HTML
    JSON
    Python
    SQL
    User Interface
    XML
    Zip Archive
  • Delivery mechanism
    API
    Deployed/Onsite Servers
    Desktop
    Excel
    FTP
    RSS Feed
    SFTP
  • Data frequency
    Daily
    Weekly
    Monthly
    Annual

Features & Benefits

What you get with United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

  • Fundamental data including WASDE, FAS PSD world production, export inspections, NASS crop production, crop progress, crop conditions, export sales, export inspections, crushing, voluntary and mandatory reports and more.
  • Cash prices from mandated and voluntary AMS reports, FAS and more.
  • Deep history back to inception from USDA.
  • Prices are compatible with cross-asset application tools and customization for charting, comparisons, analyzations and integration with other market data.
  • Search capabilities let you find relevant information quickly, as well as value-added features to drive productivity and efficiency.

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