# Farmland — USDA Land Values & Cash Rents API + MCP Server

> Farmland is a free USDA land data API and MCP server for AI agents, live at https://land.morningbrief.link. It republishes the USDA NASS annual Land Values and Cash Rents surveys as clean JSON: average farmland values in dollars per acre by state, and average cash rents in dollars per acre by county. 3 MCP tools. Free, no API key, no signup, no auth. The surveys are annual; the stored copy refreshes once a year after the August NASS release (latest stored year: 2026).

## MCP (for AI agents)

- Endpoint (streamable HTTP): https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp
- Client config: {"mcpServers": {"farmland": {"url": "https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp"}}}
- 3 tools: get_land_values (state-level values), get_cash_rents (county-level rents), list_coverage (what states/years are stored).

## Datasets

- Land values — average farmland value, USD per acre, one row per state and year (state-level; no county breakdown). REST: /v1/land/values
- Cash rents — average cash rent, USD per acre, one row per county and year (some counties appear as 'OTHER COUNTIES' aggregates). REST: /v1/land/rents
- Coverage/status — row counts per dataset, year range, distinct states/counties. REST: /v1/status

## REST notes

- Base: https://land.morningbrief.link — all endpoints are GET, return JSON, and need no key.
- Common query params: state (two-letter code, case-insensitive), county (name as stored, uppercase, e.g. HANCOCK — cash rents only), year, limit (default 1000, max 1000).
- Full machine-readable spec: https://land.morningbrief.link/openapi.json

## Links

- Product page & lookup tools: https://morningbrief.link/land/
- Documentation: https://morningbrief.link/docs
- Hub (Farmland + Magpie USDA data + Edgar SEC financials): https://morningbrief.link
- MCP Registry listing: link.morningbrief/farmland
- Server card: https://land.morningbrief.link/.well-known/mcp.json