Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Colorado Potato Prices
Colorado potato prices track the physical market by region, product basis, crop timing, storage condition, and delivery terms. MassGain helps food processors compare local offers with Idaho and other western origins, then add freight, quality, and recovery to judge delivered usable cost.
Market Data
How to read this market
Colorado potato prices span multiple channels and production areas, including fresh, processing, seed, and specialty markets. Values depend on growing district, variety, grade, end use, crop timing, water and yield conditions, storage quality, local demand, freight, and contract status.
MassGain can place Colorado offers beside historical regional benchmarks and nearby sourcing alternatives. Processors should then normalize specification, quality, recovery, freight, and delivery period to determine whether a local premium or discount translates into a real delivered-cost advantage.
Data Module
Colorado potato price context
RegionColorado production district and market channel
Product basisvariety, grade, quality, and end use
Crop and storagetiming and usable supply
Alternate originscomparable neighboring markets
Decision usespot sourcing, contracts, and plant budgeting
Analysis
Why this matters
Colorado’s broad potato market can mask shortages confined to a particular grade or processing specification. A statewide or national average may therefore be less useful than a narrower series tied to the plant’s actual requirement. Alternate-origin comparisons matter only after freight, quality, and delivery timing are normalized.
Signal 01
Usable Crop Uncertainty Index
UCUI translates crop and market complexity into a simple uncertainty signal. Higher readings indicate greater uncertainty—not necessarily higher prices.
Understand uncertainty. Anticipate risk. Act earlier.
UCUI is designed to analyze potato-industry publications and data signals across regions, varieties, weather, disease, storage, supply, and demand.
WeatherHigh
DiseaseHigh
StorageMedium
SupplyMedium
Single-day snapshot based on a scan of 11,500+ web and social signals. Get historical and real-time data by clicking the button below.
The MassGain Daily
Today’s market analysis.
A daily editorial synthesis of physical potato data, crop signals, market reporting, and what participants should watch next.
September 10, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Potato prices quiet at $30/cwt as regional harvest damage buzzes beneath the surface
Market indicators are stable, but reporting from Europe and select growing areas shows real, localized crop stress — a reminder that steady headline prices can mask uneven physical risk.
Signal 02
MassGain Potato Index
Independent physical-pricing intelligence and market-trend analysis for procurement, forecasting, contracting, and scenario planning.
Core Russet Carton Median
312.45 USD/MT
Latest qualifying physical-market observation
+4.75 (+1.55%)
Price discovery for the physical potato market
MPI is designed to track physical pricing data, price trends, deltas, and divergences across regions and potato types.
Series window45 days
Current public coverageCore russet cartons
Primary source basisQualifying USDA physical rows
UnitUSD per metric tonne
Single-day snapshot based on most recent 45 days worth of data. Limited to US Russets only. Get more complete, global data about all varieties by clicking the button below.
Signal 03
MassGain Spot Reference
An independent spot reference designed for price discovery, contract discussions, procurement comparisons, and risk modeling.
Russet Burbank — U.S. Midsize
305 USD/MT
Demonstration reference format
+1.6% WoW · Confidence: High
A trusted benchmark for pricing, contracts, and risk
MSR is intended to use real transactions and verifiable physical-market data to support negotiations, price checks, contracting, and risk models.
ProductRusset Burbank
SpecificationU.S. midsize, 40–70 count
Reference typePhysical spot benchmark
StatusIn development
Based on most recent 45 days worth of data. Limited to US Russets only. Get more complete, global data about all varities by clicking the button below. Full access also includes historical data -- including depreciated NYMEX/CBOE/EEX spot references -- projections, trends, and AI-driven insights.
The MassGain Product Ladder
From insight to intelligence to action
Four integrated products built for the physical potato market, delivered through public pages, reports, exports, dashboards, and API access.
1
Content
Original research, commentary, aggregated news, and market updates.
- What matters right now?
- What is happening out there?
2
UCUI™
Usable Crop Uncertainty Index: an AI-powered signal of crop risk and market uncertainty.
- Understand uncertainty
- Anticipate risk
- Act earlier
3
MPI™
MassGain Potato Index: independent physical-pricing intelligence and trend analysis.
- Price discovery
- Regional trends
- Procurement planning
4
MSR™
MassGain Spot Reference: an independent benchmark for price discovery and risk modeling.
- Contracts
- Negotiations
- Risk models
Content + UCUI + MPI + MSR + API access
Get historical series, regional detail, constituent data, exports, alerts, and direct data access.
Overview
Who is this for?
This is for food processors, dehydrators, frozen-potato manufacturers, and ingredient buyers that need to interpret Colorado potato prices within the state’s distinct production and freight economics. Colorado supply can span fresh, seed, processing, and specialty channels, so a single statewide quotation may not represent the potatoes required by a particular plant. Variety, grade, size, end use, crop timing, storage quality, water conditions, regional demand, and freight from major growing districts all influence value. MassGain’s potato data suite helps users place Colorado offers beside historical regional benchmarks, supply forecasts, and neighboring-market relationships.
For a processor, the decision often turns on delivered usable cost rather than the farm quote. Potatoes with an attractive headline price may carry longer freight, higher sorting loss, unsuitable solids, or greater storage risk. MassGain provides the external pricing and availability context, while procurement and operations add specification, recovery, quality deductions, and logistics. That combination helps distinguish a broad Colorado market move from a shortage limited to one grade, variety, or delivery window.
The data can support contract reviews, spot purchasing, plant budgeting, and alternate-origin analysis. MassGain does not certify individual lots or publish confidential transactions. It provides an independent framework for comparing Colorado potato prices with practical alternatives and documenting why a regional premium, discount, or sourcing shift is commercially justified.
Use Case
A Colorado dehydrated-potato plant needs supplemental volume after stored inventory shows higher defects than expected. A nearby seller offers potatoes at a premium, while an Idaho source quotes less at origin but requires a longer haul. MassGain shows Colorado suitable supply is genuinely tight for the required delivery window. After adding freight, sorting loss, expected recovery, and shutdown risk, procurement buys a short local tranche for continuity and schedules the balance from Idaho when logistics costs are lower.
FAQs
What affects Colorado potato prices?
Production district, variety, grade, end use, yield, water conditions, storage, harvest timing, local demand, and freight all matter.
Can Colorado prices be compared directly with Idaho prices?
Only after normalizing variety, specification, crop period, freight, quality, and the intended processing or fresh-market use.
How does MassGain help Colorado processors?
It combines regional benchmarks, historical relationships, supply forecasts, and risk signals so local offers can be evaluated against feasible alternatives.
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Data and Methodology
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