Colorado Farm Products EFS Liens: Debtors, Lenders & Crop Collateral

Search Colorado Effective Financing Statements (EFS) for farm-product liens by debtor, secured party, county, crop year, farm product or exact record number. Get the debtor and lender, both addresses, the farm products and counties covered, crop year, filing and lapse dates, chain status and record IDs in one clean JSON row.

Colorado requires an EFS when a lender takes a security interest in farm products — crops, livestock, hay, seed, dairy, poultry and other agricultural goods. The EFS master list publishes the debtor, the secured party, the county where the products are produced, the crop year and the product description. This actor turns that registry into a searchable feed for agricultural lenders, input suppliers, equipment finance companies, crop buyers and credit teams.

What you get

• EFS record number and amendment number.
• Recorded date, last filing date and lapse date.
• Chain status: active, lapsed, terminated or unknown, joined from the Colorado UCC index.
• Debtor / farm name and debtor ID.
• Debtor street, city, state and ZIP parsed from the state address field.
• Additional debtors and their identifiers.
• Secured party / lender name plus the full secured-party field as published.
• Secured party street, city, state and ZIP.
• Assignee, when the filing was assigned.
• Farm products covered, for example Cattle And Calves, Hay, Corn, Wheat or All Field Crops.
• Colorado counties where the products are produced.
• Crop years, including ALL when the filing is not crop-year specific.
• County filing ID and label, when the state publishes them.
• Search provenance: which debtor or lender term matched, plus the run's search terms.
• Flat snake_case JSON that opens directly in Excel, Google Sheets, a CRM or a credit model.

Who it is for

• Agricultural lenders and Farm Credit / Farm Service Agency teams — monitor EFS filings against borrowers, prospects and competitors.
• Input suppliers, seed, feed and chemical companies — see who already holds a security interest in a farm's crops or livestock before extending terms.
• Equipment finance and ag leasing — find farms with active secured lending and identify the incumbent lender.
• Crop buyers and grain elevators — check EFS coverage by county, product and crop year before purchasing farm products.
• Credit, collections and recovery teams — surface active, lapsed and terminated farm-product liens in one pass.
• Ag data, KYB and due-diligence teams — enrich a farm or operator profile with public secured-lending records.

How to use it

1. Add one or more debtor / farm names, or one or more secured party / lender names.
2. Or paste exact EFS record numbers for a precise lookup.
3. Narrow by Colorado county, crop year and farm product.
4. Set a recorded date range and a maximum number of filings.
5. Leave the name and number fields empty to list new EFS filings in the date range.

Names are partial-match and each name is searched separately. Multiple farm-product lines from the same EFS record are merged into one result, so the same filing is never charged twice. Free Apify users receive up to 10 results per run.

Coverage and limits

• Jurisdiction: statewide Colorado.
• Source: the Colorado Secretary of State Effective Financing Statements Master List, plus the Colorado UCC filing index for chain status and lapse dates.
• Records: EFS filings for farm products, including initial filings, active filings and amendments.
• Dates: the master list goes back decades. Use a wide date range for older filings; the most recent recordings may take a short time to appear.
• One row per filing: a filing that covers several farm products or counties is merged into one result with semicolon-separated lists.
• Status: the EFS master list does not publish a status column, so the actor joins the state UCC index by record and amendment number. If that join is temporarily unavailable, status is unknown and the rest of the record is still returned.
• Result cap: up to 1,000 unique EFS filings per run. Free users are capped at 10.
• No login, no captcha, no browser: the actor reads the public state data over HTTPS.

Output example

{
  "record_id": "20262000363",
  "amendment_id": null,
  "record_date": "2026-01-02",
  "last_filing_date": "2026-01-02",
  "lapse_date": "2031-01-02",
  "status": "active",
  "transaction_type": "Initial Filing",
  "filing_type": "EFS",
  "debtor_name": "JONES, JUSTIN",
  "debtor_id": "1150103105",
  "debtor_street": "25551 Cr 57",
  "debtor_city": "Iliff",
  "debtor_state": "CO",
  "debtor_zip": "80736",
  "additional_debtor_names": null,
  "additional_debtor_ids": null,
  "secured_party_name": "The First National Bank of Fleming",
  "secured_party_full": "The First National Bank of Fleming, 201 N Logan, PO Box 408, Fleming, CO, 80728",
  "secured_party_street": "201 N Logan, PO Box 408",
  "secured_party_city": "Fleming",
  "secured_party_state": "CO",
  "secured_party_zip": "80728",
  "assignee": null,
  "farm_products": "Cattle And Calves; Hay; Semen",
  "farm_product_description": null,
  "counties": "Logan",
  "crop_years": "ALL",
  "record_county_filing_id": null,
  "record_county_filing": null,
  "state": "CO",
  "source": "Colorado Secretary of State Effective Financing Statements",
  "source_url": "https://data.colorado.gov/Business/Effective-Financing-Statements-Master-List-Farm-Pro/ej2c-jkvh",
  "search_role": "debtor",
  "search_terms": "JONES",
  "matched_debtor_terms": "JONES",
  "matched_secured_party_terms": null,
  "observed_at": "2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

• $0.03 per returned EFS filing (result event).
• $0.003 actor start event, charged once by Apify for the 512 MB run.
• Minimum total charge: $0.033 per run.
• No charge for error records, no-data runs or failed runs.

Notes

• This actor is specific to Colorado farm-product EFS liens. It is not a general UCC feed and does not return deeds, plats or court records.
• Public, non-certified data. For a certified UCC/EFS search, order directly from the Colorado Secretary of State.
• Party names and addresses are reproduced as published; the state does not guarantee their accuracy.