@pipeworx/usda-market-news

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Tools: 4

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, Market News: livestock price reports (direct slaughter cattle, boxed beef and cow-beef cutouts, hogs and pork, lamb) and, with a registered key, the My Market News reports for fruit and vegetables (shipping-point, terminal-market and import-crossing prices), grain, hay, cotton and ornamentals. Dated rows with the report’s own basis (class, selling basis, grade, weight range) and low / high / weighted-average prices kept as separate fields.

Tools

• ams_report_search(query?, species?, limit?) — finds livestock price reports by title words and species; returns report id, report code, the sections each report has, and when AMS last published it. A search with no match says what is not covered instead of returning an empty list.

• ams_report(report_id, section?, date?, start_date?, end_date?, limit?) — reads rows from one report section. Every response states the report family, report title, market type and office. With no date it returns the most recent report date. A date or section AMS has no rows for returns status: "no_rows_for_request" with the report’s last published date, never an empty array or a zero.

• ams_market_report_search(query?, market_type?, limit?) — finds My Market News reports outside livestock (produce shipping point and terminal markets, Mexico crossings, grain bids, hay, cotton) by words in the title, market type or office. A search with no match returns the market types that exist, never a bare empty list. Commodities and crossing districts are fields inside a report’s rows, not in its title: find the office report here, then filter its rows in ams_market_report.

• ams_market_report(report_id, commodity?, district?, section?, date?, start_date?, end_date?, limit?) — reads dated rows from one such report, optionally keeping one commodity (for example lime) and one district or market location (for example mexico crossings through texas). Reports are daily; a weekly view is a start_date/end_date range of up to 31 days. Low / high / mostly / mean prices stay separate fields with the package or unit AMS gives. A date or commodity with no rows returns a status that says so, with the commodities the report does carry.

Auth

The two livestock tools are keyless. The two My Market News tools use the Pipeworx platform key for the AMS My Market News registered service; callers can pass their own free key as _apiKey.

What is NOT covered

Poultry and egg reports, and anything AMS does not publish through Market News. Livestock reports are ams_report*; everything else AMS publishes in Market News is ams_market_report*.

Reading prices correctly

• Families are not interchangeable. A live or dressed direct-slaughter cattle price (class, selling basis LIVE FOB / DRESSED DELIVERED, grade), a boxed-beef cutout (Choice/Select, 600-900 lb carcass-cut value) and a pork cutout (FOB plant vs FOB Omaha) are different quantities even for the same animal. Read the basis fields on each row before comparing.
• Ranges stay ranges. price_range_low, price_range_high and weighted_avg_price are separate fields exactly as AMS publishes them. Nothing here averages or rolls up.
• Units. The data carries no unit field. AMS quotes LMR prices in dollars per hundredweight and weights in pounds; each response repeats this as unit_note.
• Numbers are strings as AMS publishes them ("63,231", "369.47"). Null fields are dropped from rows.
• Dates. ISO in and out of the tool arguments; report_date on rows is as AMS writes it (MM/DD/YYYY).

Data sources

• USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, My Market News (specialty crops, grain, hay, cotton, ornamentals). US federal data.
• USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting (Market News). US federal data.

Behaviour worth knowing: a request for a date AMS has not published answers with a plain “No Results Found.” string rather than an empty list, which is how no_rows_for_request is detected. Weekly reports publish on one weekday only, so a daily date will often come back empty for them. The same report id has different row shapes in different sections (head counts in Summary, prices in Detail for most cattle reports).

Tools

• ams_report_search — Find USDA AMS livestock price reports (Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting): national and regional direct slaughter cattle, boxed beef and cow-beef cutouts, hogs and pork, lamb.
• ams_report — Read dated rows from one USDA AMS livestock price report (Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting). Every response states the report family, report title, market type and office, and each row keeps its ow
• ams_market_report_search — Find USDA AMS My Market News reports outside livestock: fruit and vegetable shipping-point and terminal-market prices (limes, tomatoes, avocados…), Mexico and other import crossings,
• ams_market_report — Read dated rows from one USDA AMS My Market News report (fruit and vegetable shipping-point / terminal / import-crossing prices, grain, hay, cotton and other non-livestock reports).