Agricultural Statistics Service
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) whose mission is to support the United States, its agricultural sector, and rural communities by providing accurate, objective, and meaningful statistical information and services. NASS operates the QuickStats API for programmatic access to agricultural survey and census data, as well as geospatial APIs for cropland data, vegetation conditions, and crop moisture monitoring covering the continental United States.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Agricultural Statistics Service the way a machine reads it — 45 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Agricultural Statistics Service scores 60.6/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
How we profile Agricultural Statistics Service
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Agricultural Statistics Service. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 5
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
USDA NASS CroplandCROS API
The CroplandCROS API provides access to the Cropland Data Layer (CDL), a crop-specific land cover data layer with 30-meter spatial resolution covering the continental United Sta...
USDA NASS VegScape API
The VegScape API delivers vegetation condition indices at 250-meter spatial resolution covering the continental United States. Data includes daily and weekly vegetation index co...
USDA NASS Crop CASMA API
The Crop CASMA API provides programmatic access to crop vegetation and soil moisture conditions using NASA SMAP and MODIS satellite data for agricultural drought monitoring and ...
Agricultural Statistics Service Parameters API
Parameter value discovery for query building
Agricultural Statistics Service Statistics API
Agricultural statistics data retrieval and filtering
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Agricultural Statistics Service Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 6
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
API Key Authentication
All API access requires registration and an API key obtained by agreeing to NASS Terms of Service.
Multiple Output Formats
The QuickStats API supports JSON, XML, and CSV response formats with optional JSONP callback support.
Rich Query Operators
Support for comparison operators including GE, LE, GT, LT, NE, LIKE, and NOT_LIKE for flexible data filtering.
Agricultural Census Data
Access to the complete Census of Agriculture and annual survey estimates covering all major commodity types.
Geospatial Data Coverage
Geospatial APIs provide 30-meter and 250-meter resolution data layers covering the entire continental United States.
Historical Time Series
Access to historical agricultural statistics and cropland data extending back to 1997 for select states.
Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
JSON Schema 5
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Count Response
JSON SCHEMAError Response
JSON SCHEMAParameter Values Response
JSON SCHEMAStatistics Record
JSON SCHEMAStatistics Response
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 5
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Quickstats Api Count Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREQuickstats Api Error Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREQuickstats Api Param Values Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREQuickstats Api Statistics Record Structure
JSON STRUCTUREQuickstats Api Statistics Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 5
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 6
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Crop Production Analysis
Query crop production estimates by commodity, year, and location for market analysis and supply forecasting.
Livestock Population Monitoring
Access livestock inventory and production statistics at state and county levels for supply chain planning.
Geospatial Cropland Mapping
Use the CroplandCROS API to integrate 30-meter resolution cropland data into GIS applications and land use analysis.
Agricultural Drought Monitoring
Monitor crop condition and soil moisture via the Crop CASMA API to assess drought impacts on agricultural production.
Agricultural Research
Access the full Quick Stats database for academic research on agricultural trends, productivity, and policy analysis.
Food Security Assessment
Combine crop production, livestock, and vegetation data to assess regional and national food security conditions.
Integrations 4
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
R Package rnassqs
Open-source R package for accessing NASS QuickStats API data directly within R statistical computing environments.
Python Package usdarnass
Python package providing programmatic access to the USDA NASS QuickStats API for data analysis workflows.
data.gov Catalog
NASS Quick Stats datasets are cataloged on catalog.data.gov for broader federal data discovery.
NASA SMAP
Crop CASMA integrates NASA SMAP satellite data for soil moisture monitoring.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Agricultural Statistics Service — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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