USDA Press Releases
unavailable Executive · Tier 1 · HTML index · Department of Agriculture
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What this source is
The Department of Agriculture administers farm programs, food-safety inspection, nutrition assistance, and rural development. Its press-release index carries departmental announcements on program funding, disaster designations, and regulatory actions, typically a few items per business day.
Identity and registry record
- Registry id
agriculture-newsroom- Agency / parent organization
- Department of Agriculture
- Branch
- executive
- Type
- HTML index
- Status
- unavailable
- Tier
- 1
- URL (home)
- https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2026-07-26
- Registry notes
- Probed 2026-07-26: robots.txt disallows our identified client for this path. Not fetched, per GUIDE §3 (no evasion). Research 2026-07-28: USDA maintains an official RSS-feeds page at usda.gov/about-usda/policies-and-links/digital/rss-feeds — robots verdicts are per-path, so the feed paths may be allowed where the press index is not; re-probe that page. Component channels (FSIS GovDelivery, FNS feeds page, NASS) are healthy tier-3 sibling candidates. Email sibling registered 2026-07-29: agriculture-email (plus fsis-email and the component lists) (GUIDE §3 email class; the web status here is unchanged).
How we ingest it
- Channel
- HTML index
- Method
- Would parse the press-release HTML index daily for new items.
- Request budget
- the agency class: at most 1,500 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)
- Politeness
- robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded
- Capture and hash
- captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)
Ingestion health
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable.
Ingestion statistics
These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only.
All time
No requests to www.usda.gov are recorded in the request log.
Last 30 days, day by day
No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.