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USDA Food Access MCP Server

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USDA Food Access is answering right now. Last checked 13 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

SNAP participation, food insecurity indicators, and agricultural statistics

Uptime history 91 days of history
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
535 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check USDA Food Access every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add usda-food --transport http https://mcp.olyport.com/usda-food/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://mcp.olyport.com/usda-food/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.usda-food]
url = "https://mcp.olyport.com/usda-food/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "usda-food": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/usda-food/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "usda-food": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/usda-food/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

food
get_food_environment
Get county-level food access risk profiles using Census ACS data. Constructs food access risk profiles by combining vehicle access (B25044), poverty status (B17001), and SNAP participation (B22001). Limited vehicle access combined with high poverty indicates food desert risk. Useful for identifying areas with barriers to food access in grant applications. Args: state: Two-letter state abbreviation (e.g. 'WA', 'MS') or 2-digit FIPS code. county_fips: Three-digit county FIPS code (e.g. '033' for King County, WA). Omit to get all counties in the state.
get_food_insecurity_indicators
Get food-related economic indicators as proxies for food insecurity by county. Combines SNAP participation rate (B22001), poverty rate (B17001), and median household income (B19013) to build a food insecurity risk profile. Higher SNAP rates, higher poverty, and lower income correlate with greater food insecurity. Useful for grant narratives demonstrating community need. Args: state: Two-letter state abbreviation (e.g. 'WA', 'MS') or 2-digit FIPS code. county_fips: Three-digit county FIPS code (e.g. '033' for King County, WA). Omit to get all counties in the state. year: ACS 5-year estimate year (default 2022). Data covers year-4 through year.
agricultural
get_agricultural_data
Get USDA NASS QuickStats data on agricultural production by state. Returns crop values, production quantities, and farm statistics from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Useful for understanding local food production capacity in grant narratives. Args: state: Two-letter state abbreviation (e.g. 'WA', 'IA'). commodity: Agricultural commodity to query (e.g. 'CORN', 'SOYBEANS', 'WHEAT', 'CATTLE', 'MILK'). Omit to get a broad survey of crops. year: Year for data (e.g. 2022). Omit to get the most recent available data.
snap
get_snap_participation
Get SNAP/food stamp household participation by county using Census ACS Table B22001. Returns the number and percentage of households receiving vs not receiving SNAP/food stamp benefits, broken down by county. Essential for understanding food assistance utilization in grant target areas. Args: state: Two-letter state abbreviation (e.g. 'WA', 'MS') or 2-digit FIPS code. county_fips: Three-digit county FIPS code (e.g. '033' for King County, WA). Omit to get all counties in the state. year: ACS 5-year estimate year (default 2022). Data covers year-4 through year.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.olyport.com/usda-food/mcp streamable-http answering 524 ms 13 min ago

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USDA Food Access — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can USDA Food Access do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_agricultural_data, get_food_environment, get_food_insecurity_indicators, get_snap_participation. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is USDA Food Access working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 535 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect USDA Food Access?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does USDA Food Access need an API key?
No. USDA Food Access completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is USDA Food Access?
It answers our handshake in 535 ms on average, which is faster than 22% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.