About Cownty

What Cownty is, and isn't

• It is a free-during-the-pilot service that shows public data for every county in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico, with the source and date on every number.
• It isn't affiliated with any sale barn, buyer, seller, lender or government agency, including USDA.
• It isn't advice. Prices are past sales, not quotes. FSA, RMA, NRCS and the states decide eligibility and deadlines.
• It never sells or shares your phone number. Text STOP anytime.

Where the data comes from

Sale barn prices from USDA AMS Market News reports; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; LFP, disaster designations, CRP and payment totals from FSA files; burn bans from the Texas A&M Forest Service, Oklahoma Forestry Services and New Mexico Forestry Division (Kansas: county burning rules and NWS fire-weather alerts); weather alerts from the National Weather Service; screwworm zones from the Texas Animal Health Commission. See every source, its last load and status.

How alerts and numbers are checked

• Every number links to its official file and shows the date that file carries. Missing data shows "—" with the reason; nothing is estimated or filled in.
• Every program alert (LFP list, disaster designation, CRP haying) carries the link to the official file it came from.
• No text, email or post goes out without a person approving it. Unapproved items expire and never send late, and one switch pauses everything.
• Barn price averages are head-weighted from USDA-reported lots. Classes with fewer than 3 head are hidden. Price cards show one barn at a time, and reports name a barn only for its top average or another favorable fact.
• When something is wrong, it's fixed and logged publicly on the corrections page. If a wrong alert went out, a correction goes to the same people, after a person approves it.

Contact

Use the contact form. A mailing address will be listed here before launch.

Information only. Not financial, legal or tax advice. FSA decides eligibility.