Livestock Counterparty Guard

Read-only USDA Packers and Stockyards livestock counterparty verification. Call when a user or system needs to check a livestock or cattle buyer, dealer, market agency, or packer before a sale, transaction, procurement decision, vendor onboarding, or recurring review. Searches bonded dealers and market agencies buying on commission, bonded market agencies selling livestock on commission, bonded packers, and current suspension windows. Returns source-attributed match status, bond coverage when published, legal/trade-name match basis, region resolution, suspension evidence, and source dates. Do not use this tool as a credit score, solvency determination, legal conclusion, recommendation to transact, or guarantee of payment. Current expired-registration status is unavailable because the USDA expired-registration source currently available for validation is stale.

{'type': 'object', '$schema': 'https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema', 'required': ['business_name'], 'properties': {'region': {'type': 'string', 'maxLength': 64, 'minLength': 2, 'description': 'Optional U.S. state or Canadian province, as a full name or abbreviation, used to disambiguate matches.'}, 'business_name': {'type': 'string', 'maxLength': 160, 'minLength': 2, 'description': 'Legal or trade name of the livestock counterparty.'}}}