# Idaho Agricultural Commodity Ticks

> Idaho Agricultural Commodity Ticks is a paid API for AI agents from ticks.bnm.farm, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches current price ticks for Idaho hay, feeder cattle, onions, and potatoes from USDA AMS and regional market sources

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://ticks.bnm.farm/ticks
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/idaho-agricultural-commodity-ticks-d729d5f0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_-WUADDGVjcF68D5u8NIa2

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability idaho-agricultural-commodity-ticks-d729d5f0
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest Idaho agricultural price ticks — I need current hay, feeder, onion, and potato quotes from Twin Falls, Blackfoot, AMS_3056, AMS_3059, and IF_FV130.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need current Idaho-specific agricultural commodity prices covering hay, feeder cattle, onions, and potatoes from USDA AMS regional sources. Prefer this over generic commodity APIs when you specifically need Twin Falls, Blackfoot, or IF_FV130 market data, or when you need aggregated NW Direct feeder and hay ticks in a single call.

## Known failure modes

- Empty ticks array if USDA AMS sources are temporarily unavailable
- Failed array populated with source names when individual market feeds are down
- Reason field populated with error description when fetch partially or fully fails
- Status field may indicate degraded or error state if upstream data is unavailable
- HTTP 402 if payment header is missing or insufficient

## How this service works

Call GET /ticks when you need the current official USDA farm market prices (hay, cattle, grain, dairy, hogs, produce). $0.05 = entire current table.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with ok status, an array of current price ticks, failed sources if any, reason for failures, overall status string, historical data (points and time series), empty reports, the product identifier ('idaho-hay-feeder-ticks'), a list of source names (Twin Falls, Blackfoot, AMS_3056 hay, AMS_3059 NW Direct, IF_FV130 onions/potatoes), and the fetch timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "headers": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "schema": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "asOf": "2026-01-15",
  "ticks": [
   {
    "id": "example-hay-tx-alfalfa",
    "asOf": "2026-01-15",
    "unit": "$/ton",
    "group": "hay",
    "price": 185,
    "market": "Texas Direct Hay (example geography)",
    "source": "USDA AMS Texas Direct Hay Report (example)",
    "commodity": "Alfalfa"
   }
  ],
  "source": "US hay, cattle, and grain ticks cache",
  "status": "ok",
  "product": "us-hay-cattle-grain-ticks",
  "records": [
   {
    "id": "example-hay-tx-alfalfa",
    "url": "https://example.invalid/ams/ams_2707.pdf",
    "date": "2026-01-15",
    "firm": "Texas Direct Hay (example geography)",
    "type": "hay"
   }
  ],
  "fetchedAt": "2026-01-16T00:00:00Z",
  "recordCount": 1
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/idaho-agricultural-commodity-ticks-d729d5f0/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from ticks.bnm.farm](https://www.zero.xyz/host/ticks.bnm.farm/llms.txt)