🌾 USDA Market News Scraper - Livestock, Grain & Commodity Prices

Whether you're a commodities trader tracking daily prices, a rancher monitoring livestock markets, or an analyst studying agricultural trends, this tool makes it easy to collect structured market data from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS).

The USDA Market News Scraper collects official commodity price reports from the USDA AMS Market News system. Extract beef, cattle, pork, swine, lamb, and dairy price data with full report metadata, market locations, price ranges, trends, and historical data going back years.

✨ What Does It Do

• 🐄 Livestock prices - collect beef, cattle, pork, swine, and lamb price reports from official USDA data
• 🥛 Dairy data - extract dairy market reports including cheese, butter, milk, and whey prices
• 📅 Historical data - fetch price data for any date range going back years
• 🏢 Market locations - get office names, cities, states, and market location details for every report
• 📈 Trends & narratives - capture market trend indicators and analyst narratives
• 🔍 Keyword filtering - search report titles for specific commodities like "boxed beef", "slaughter", or "hog"

🔧 Input

• Max Items - how many records to collect (free users get 10 items, paid users up to 1,000,000)
• Report Type - filter by commodity type: beef, cattle, pork, swine, lamb, dairy, or all
• Keyword Filter - filter report titles by keyword (e.g., "boxed beef", "slaughter", "hog")
• Date From - fetch data starting from this date (MM/DD/YYYY format)
• Date To - fetch data up to this date (MM/DD/YYYY format)

{
    "reportType": "cattle",
    "keyword": "slaughter",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "dateFrom": "03/01/2026",
    "dateTo": "04/07/2026"
}

📊 Output

Each record includes report metadata, market location, pricing fields, and trend data. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

📌 Field	📄 Description
📋 reportTitle	Official USDA report title
🏷️ slugName	Report slug identifier
🔢 slugId	Numeric report ID
🐄 marketType	Market type (e.g., Direct Livestock - LMR Beef)
📊 marketTypeCategory	Market type category
🏢 officeName	USDA office issuing the report
🏙️ officeCity	Office city location
🗺️ officeState	Office state location
📍 marketLocationName	Market location name
📅 reportDate	Date of the report data
📅 publishedDate	Date the report was published
📈 trend	Market trend indicator
📝 narrative	Analyst market narrative
🔄 isCorrection	Whether this is a correction to a prior report

{
    "reportTitle": "National Daily Direct Hog Prior Day Report - Slaughtered Swine",
    "slugName": "LM_HG200",
    "slugId": "3458",
    "marketType": "Direct Livestock - LMR Pork",
    "marketTypeCategory": "Pork",
    "officeName": "Des Moines",
    "officeCode": "DM",
    "officeCity": "Des Moines",
    "officeState": "IA",
    "marketLocationName": "National",
    "marketLocationCity": "",
    "marketLocationState": "",
    "reportDate": "04/04/2026",
    "publishedDate": "04/07/2026",
    "trend": null,
    "narrative": null,
    "isCorrection": null,
    "sections": ["Barrows and Gilts"],
    "purchase_type": "Negotiated (carcass basis)",
    "head_count": "2,187",
    "price_low": "88.00",
    "price_high": "90.00",
    "weighted_average": "89.25",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-07T12:00:00.000Z"
}

💎 Why Choose the USDA Market News Scraper?

Feature	Our Tool	Manual USDA Portal
Batch collection	✅ Up to 1M records	❌ Browse one report at a time
Multiple commodities	✅ Beef, cattle, pork, lamb, dairy	⚠️ Navigate each separately
Historical data	✅ Custom date ranges	⚠️ Limited date filtering
Structured output	✅ JSON, CSV, Excel	❌ PDF/HTML reports only
Automated scheduling	✅ Daily/weekly monitoring	❌ Manual visits
Keyword search	✅ Filter by report title	⚠️ Browse through catalog

📋 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Configure - choose your report type, add keyword filters, and set a date range
3. Run It - click "Start" and get structured commodity price data in seconds

No coding, no setup, no manual browsing required.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 📈 Commodities traders - monitor daily livestock prices and spot price movements across markets
• 🐄 Ranchers & feedlots - track cattle and hog prices to time sales and purchases
• 🥛 Dairy processors - follow cheese, butter, and milk price reports for procurement decisions
• 📊 Market analysts - build historical price datasets for trend analysis and forecasting models
• 🏦 Financial institutions - collect commodity price data for risk assessment and derivatives pricing
• 🏛️ Policy researchers - analyze agricultural market trends across regions and time periods

❓ FAQ

🌾 What is USDA Market News? USDA Market News is the official reporting service of the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS). It publishes daily and weekly reports on livestock, dairy, grain, and other commodity prices from markets across the United States.

🐄 What report types are available? The scraper supports beef, cattle, pork, swine, lamb, and dairy reports. Use "all" to fetch every available report type. Over 149 official USDA reports are available.

📅 How far back does historical data go? The USDA AMS API provides historical data going back several years. Use the Date From and Date To fields to specify your desired range.

⏱️ How long does a run take? Fetching 500 records typically takes about 5-10 seconds. The scraper paginates through USDA API results automatically with 500 rows per page.

📊 What pricing fields are included? Pricing fields vary by report type but commonly include price_low, price_high, weighted_average, head_count, lot_count, and other commodity-specific fields like carcass weight, yield grade, and quality grade.

🔗 Integrate USDA Market News Scraper with any app

• Make - Automate commodity price monitoring workflows
• Zapier - Get alerts when prices hit your thresholds
• Slack - Get daily price updates in your team channel
• Google Drive - Export price data to spreadsheets
• Webhooks - Trigger actions when runs complete

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🆘 Need Help?

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the USDA, the Agricultural Marketing Service, or any government agency. It accesses only publicly available data through the official USDA AMS Market News API.