🌾 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"

📋 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.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: current_week_head_count, isCorrection, marketLocationCity, marketLocationName, marketLocationState, marketType, marketTypeCategory, narrative, officeCity, officeCode, officeName, officeState, previous_day_head_count, previous_week_head_count, previous_year_head_count, publishedDate, reportDate, reportTitle, same_day_prev_week_head_count, same_day_prev_year_head_count, scrapedAt, sections, slugId, slugName, trend. All 25 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the USDA Market News Scraper - Livestock, Grain & Commodity Prices page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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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.

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