Let USDA Know If You Want Data via Web Services

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Let USDA Know if You Want Data via Web Services

By Wendy Smith, AgGateway President & CEO

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and AgGateway are collaborating on ways to enable U.S. growers and companies that serve them to transition to digital agriculture. One potential collaboration category is around providing USDA data via web services, with AgGateway offering web service API design assistance and a membership ready to implement support for consuming any web services the USDA may offer. To that end, AgGateway and the USDA would like to understand industry needs and would appreciate your input.

Please take the survey here. The survey has only 4 questions (other than such questions as your name and affiliation); it should only take a few moments to complete. 

Questions include:

  • What data currently managed and made available for download by the USDA would your company like to access via a web service? Examples include Commodity Validation Tables (CVT), High Risk Land Geospatial Data Layer, Common Land Units (with producer authorization), etc.
  • What data currently managed but not made available for download by the USDA would your company like to access via a web service?
  • List any ideas you have about how the USDA could improve their service to the agriculture industry through web service implementations.
  • Please discuss any web service standards, architectures, technologies, tools, or other resources that you think AgGateway should consider (or avoid).

Thank you for participating in the survey!