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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, agriculture, forestry, and food. It aims to meet the needs of farmers and ranchers, promote agricultural trade and production, work to assure food safety, protect natural resources, foster rural communities and end hunger in the United States and internationally.

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Ecological Site Descriptions (ESDs) are reports that provide detailed information about a particular kind of land - a distinctive Ecological Site.

Ecological Site Descriptions (ESD)

Much of the data housed in the Ecological Dynamics Interpretive Tool (EDIT) can now be accessed via web services. These services enable users to consume EDIT data directly into external applications and custom scripts written in their preferred language, among other uses.

Documentation is organized into three sections according to the file format returned by each service: JSON, tab-delimited text, and PDF. All web service requests are made using the HTTP GET method. Users can therefore call EDIT web services via URL or other standard means (e.g., AJAX). Detailed examples of using EDIT web services can be found in the tutorial sections of this page.

Developers are encouraged to specify a version when including web service calls in their application code. They are also encouraged to check for, and appropriately handle, 404 errors returned by web service requests. The current version will become deprecated following release of a new version, and all requests to deprecated versions will return a 404 error. Specify a version by adding a version query parameter to the web service call, as illustrated below. The most recent version will be used if no parameter is included.