# Farmland — USDA Land Values & Cash Rents for AI Agents (remote · land.morningbrief.link)

USDA farmland values and county cash rents for AI agents. Annual NASS data, free, no key.

- Trust score: 68/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-22

## Components

- remote · `land.morningbrief.link`: 68/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/link-morningbrief-farmland/land.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/link-morningbrief-farmland/land)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-22.

- **Endpoint Security**: 69/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS enforcement could not be verified: the plaintext port answered with HTTP 404, which proves neither a plaintext path nor enforcement.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 70/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 813 tokens (~271/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: authentication we do not have, an unreachable endpoint, or not enough scan history. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the Farmland — USDA Land Values & Cash Rents for AI Agents MCP server?

Farmland — USDA Land Values & Cash Rents for AI Agents is a hosted endpoint at https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http link-morningbrief-farmland 'https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "link-morningbrief-farmland": {
      "url": "https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "link-morningbrief-farmland": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.link-morningbrief-farmland]
url = "https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "link-morningbrief-farmland": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add link-morningbrief-farmland --url 'https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  link-morningbrief-farmland:
    url: "https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "link-morningbrief-farmland": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add link-morningbrief-farmland -t streamable-http -u 'https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "link-morningbrief-farmland": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-22 (score 68)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (3)

### `get_land_values` (~346 tokens)

Average farmland values in dollars per acre by state, from the USDA NASS annual Land Values survey — each row is one state and year with its per-acre value (USD/acre) and a utilization-practice category (the stored data currently carries the all-practices average). Use for what farmland is worth; use get_cash_rents instead for what it costs to rent, and list_coverage to confirm which states and years are stored before querying. Read-only lookup of stored survey data; no API key. The survey is annual and the stored copy refreshes once a year after the August NASS release — the latest stored year is 2026. `state` takes a two-letter code (case-insensitive) and `year` a single survey year; land values are state-level, so county fields are empty and a `county` filter normally matches nothing. Returns up to `limit` rows (default 1000), newest year first; a filter combination with no stored rows returns a no-data result rather than an empty list.

Input parameters:

- `county` (string): County name as stored (uppercase, e.g. 'HANCOCK'). Accepted for parity with the REST endpoint and get_cash_rents, but land values are state-level rows with no county, so this normally matches nothing
- `limit` (number): Max rows to return (default 1000, max 1000)
- `state` (string): Two-letter state code, e.g. 'IA' (case-insensitive; stored uppercase)
- `year` (number): Survey year as an integer, e.g. 2026 (currently the only stored year — see list_coverage)

### `get_cash_rents` (~345 tokens)

County cash rents in dollars per acre, from the USDA NASS annual Cash Rents survey — each row is one county (or an 'OTHER COUNTIES' aggregate) in one year, with the average rent in USD per acre and a utilization-practice category (the stored data currently carries the all-practices average). Use for what farmland rents for; use get_land_values instead for land values (what the land is worth), and list_coverage to check covered states, counties, and years. Read-only lookup of stored survey data; no API key. The survey is annual and the stored copy refreshes once a year after the August NASS release — the latest stored year is 2026. `state` takes a two-letter code (case-insensitive), `county` a county name exactly as stored (uppercase, e.g. 'HANCOCK'), and `year` a single survey year. Returns up to `limit` rows (default 1000), newest year first; a filter combination with no stored rows returns a no-data result rather than an empty list.

Input parameters:

- `county` (string): County name exactly as stored (uppercase, e.g. 'HANCOCK'); some rows are 'OTHER COUNTIES' aggregates covering counties NASS does not publish individually
- `limit` (number): Max rows to return (default 1000, max 1000)
- `state` (string): Two-letter state code, e.g. 'IA' (case-insensitive; stored uppercase)
- `year` (number): Survey year as an integer, e.g. 2026 (currently the only stored year — see list_coverage)

### `list_coverage` (~122 tokens)

Lists what the Farmland API actually holds: row counts and the year range for each dataset (land values and cash rents), the total number of distinct states and counties covered, and the state codes present in each dataset. Use before get_land_values or get_cash_rents to confirm a state or year is covered — the stored data is currently a single survey year, 2026 — or to size a query. Read-only; no API key. This mirrors the REST /v1/status summary and adds the per-dataset state lists. It takes no parameters.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/link-morningbrief-farmland/land#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-22: 68

## Common questions

### What is the Farmland — USDA Land Values & Cash Rents for AI Agents MCP server?

Farmland — USDA Land Values & Cash Rents for AI Agents is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as link.morningbrief/farmland. USDA farmland values and county cash rents for AI agents. Annual NASS data, free, no key. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp).

### Is the Farmland — USDA Land Values & Cash Rents for AI Agents MCP server safe to use?

Farmland — USDA Land Values & Cash Rents for AI Agents scores 68 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Farmland — USDA Land Values & Cash Rents for AI Agents MCP server expose?

Farmland — USDA Land Values & Cash Rents for AI Agents exposes 3 tools: get_land_values, get_cash_rents, list_coverage. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 813 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Farmland — USDA Land Values & Cash Rents for AI Agents MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Farmland — USDA Land Values & Cash Rents for AI Agents without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Farmland — USDA Land Values & Cash Rents for AI Agents MCP server still maintained?

Farmland — USDA Land Values & Cash Rents for AI Agents is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 22 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://land.morningbrief.link/mcp
- Website: https://morningbrief.link/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/link-morningbrief-farmland/land.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/link-morningbrief-farmland/land.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/link-morningbrief-farmland/land