Ticks

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

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://ticks.bnm.farm/ticks?since='

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://ticks.bnm.farm/ticks?since=' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.05 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.05" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.05 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fticks.bnm.farm%2Fticks
const res = await pay("https://ticks.bnm.farm/ticks?since=");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.05 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.05"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://ticks.bnm.farm/ticks?since=")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)