Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Frozen Potato Cold Storage Stocks
Frozen potato cold storage stocks measure finished inventory across fries, wedges, hash browns, formed items, and other formats. MassGain separates gross tonnes from committed, aging, damaged, or customer-specific stock and connects inventory with production, shipments, trade, and demand.
Market Data
How to read this market
Frozen-potato-cold-storage-stocks data measures inventories of fries, wedges, hash browns, formed products, and other frozen formats by region, warehouse, owner, product, and period. The market object is usable finished-product inventory after commitments, damage, age, and customer restrictions are considered.
Use the data to reconcile beginning stocks with production, shipments, imports, exports, orders, and adjustments and to identify whether inventory growth reflects prebuild, weak demand, product-mix imbalance, or delayed movement.
Data Module
Frozen Potato Cold Storage Stocks
Market objectfrozen finished-product inventory
Primary measureusable stock volume
Key dimensionsproduct, region, warehouse, owner
Commercial useinventory and supply planning
Adjustmentscommitments, age, damage, location
Compare withproduction, shipments, orders, trade
Analysis
Why this matters
High frozen stocks can coexist with shortage when inventory is committed, concentrated in the wrong SKU or region, or unavailable to the buyer. Category tonnes and usable product are not the same.
Commercial interpretation should segment by product, ownership, location, and commitment status before drawing conclusions about abundance.
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 16, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Potato market steady for now; Russia’s smaller crop is the salient risk
Spot prices are flat and USDA terminal reports read ‘market steady,’ but a renewed forecast for a smaller Russian harvest and recent regional harvest stress leave seasonal import timing and storage losses as the key uncertainty.
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 page is for food processors monitoring frozen potato cold storage stocks by product, region, warehouse, owner, and reporting period. MassGain organizes inventories of fries, wedges, hash browns, formed products, and other frozen formats while distinguishing gross stocks from committed, blocked, aging, damaged, or customer-specific inventory.
It connects current holdings with production, shipments, imports, exports, orders, freezer capacity, plant outages, and seasonal demand. Processors can determine whether stock growth reflects intentional prebuild, weak demand, product-mix imbalance, or delayed shipment; procurement can anticipate future raw-potato pull; finance can model working capital; and commercial teams can identify constrained SKUs despite ample category tonnes.
The suite also preserves reporting basis and revisions because warehouse, manufacturer, and government stock measures may cover different populations. MassGain does not claim complete private inventory visibility or guarantee product availability. It provides a transparent frozen-inventory framework that helps users interpret whether apparent abundance is saleable, correctly located, and aligned with the products customers require.
Use Case
Reported frozen potato stocks reach a seasonal high. MassGain shows most growth is standard fries held for contracted summer programs, while hash brown inventory is below normal after an outage. Procurement reduces standard-fry concern but protects formed-product coverage.
FAQs
What products can cold storage stocks include?
Fries, wedges, hash browns, formed products, and other defined frozen potato formats can be included.
Why can high stocks coexist with shortage?
Inventory may be committed, in the wrong region, aging, damaged, or concentrated in a different product.
How does MassGain explain stock changes?
It reconciles beginning inventory with production, shipments, trade, adjustments, commitments, and product mix.
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Data and Methodology
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Timing and revisions
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