CHS Inc.
CHS Inc. is a Fortune 500 diversified, integrated, global agricultural cooperative owned by farmers, ranchers, cooperatives, and individual producers. Headquartered in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, CHS describes itself as the largest farmer-owned cooperative in the United States, with more than 750 member cooperatives, 75,000+ individual producer-owners, and 20,000+ preferred stockholders. The cooperative serves customers in 65 countries through three primary business divisions: Agriculture (crop nutrients, crop protection, precision agriculture, seed, animal nutrition, and oilseed products), Energy (refined fuels, propane, lubricants, pipelines, terminals, and renewable fuels under the Cenex brand), and Services (hedging, payment solutions, transportation, and capital services). Major brands include Cenex, Allegiant (seed), Payback (animal nutrition), and N-Edge (crop nutrients). CHS does not currently publish a public consumer-facing developer API; partner integrations are provided through digital platforms such as MyCHS (online portal for grain tickets, billing, and payments) and CHS Connect (digital self-service for crop protection and energy wholesale customers).
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles CHS Inc. the way a machine reads it — 18 machine-readable artifacts, 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 — CHS Inc. scores 11.0/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). 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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile CHS Inc.
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for CHS Inc.. 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.
Features 8
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.
Farmer-Owned Cooperative Structure
Vertically Integrated Agriculture Supply Chain
Energy Refining and Distribution
Cenex Branded Retail Network
MyCHS Online Portal (Grain Tickets, Billing, Payments)
CHS Connect Wholesale Self-Service
Patronage Distribution to Owners
Hedging and Risk Management Services
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Security Posture 1
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.
Use Cases 9
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 Nutrient and Protection Distribution
Grain Origination and Marketing
Oilseed Processing
Animal Feed and Nutrition Supply
Refined Fuel Distribution
Cenex Retail Fueling
Propane Distribution
Agricultural Hedging and Risk Management
Cooperative Patronage Returns
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Resources
Every other property we hold for CHS Inc. — 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.
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 6
The organization behind the API
Other 11
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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