Data Sources

Full transparency on where every number on AGSIST comes from.

Commodity Prices

📊 Stooq.com

Used for: Corn, soybean, wheat, live cattle, lean hog, crude oil, natural gas, gold, silver, Dollar Index, 10-yr Treasury futures.

Delay: 15 minutes minimum.

Update frequency: Every 5 minutes during market hours.

stooq.com — free, no API key required.

₿ CoinGecko

Used for: Bitcoin, XRP, and Kaspa spot prices.

Delay: Real-time (free tier).

coingecko.com — free public API.

Weather

🌤 Open-Meteo

Used for: Hourly temperature, wind speed, wind direction, humidity, precipitation probability, and derived spray/urea risk calculations.

Update frequency: Every hour.

open-meteo.com — free, open-source weather API.

🌧 NOAA / National Weather Service

Used for: Radar imagery via Windy.com embed.

weather.gov

🗺 NOAA Drought Monitor

Used for: Weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map embed.

droughtmonitor.unl.edu

Geocoding

📍 Nominatim / OpenStreetMap

Used for: Reverse geocoding browser lat/lng to city, state, and ZIP code. No personal location data is stored on our servers.

Farmers First Ag Index (FFAI)

📈 Farmers First Agri Service — Proprietary

The FFAI is a composite index calculated weekly by Farmers First Agri Service from publicly available agricultural economic data. Published every Monday at farmers1st.com.

Cash Bids

🚜 Barchart OnDemand

Local elevator cash bids are sourced from Barchart OnDemand API, proxied via a Cloudflare Worker to protect the API key. Integration requires Worker deployment — see Developer docs.

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