Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Historical Farmgate Potato Prices
Historical farmgate potato prices provide producer-level benchmarks across crop years when region, market class, unit, and contract basis are kept consistent. MassGain connects matched price history with acreage, yield, storage, and demand for budgeting and risk analysis.
Market Data
How to read this market
Historical farmgate potato price data organizes producer-level observations by region, crop year, market class, variety, grade, unit, contract or spot basis, and source date. The market object is the matched historical farm-level price.
Use the series to study seasonal ranges, downside years, and regional cycles while comparing acreage, yield, crop size, storage, processor demand, and contract coverage. Avoid splicing unlike farmgate markets into one continuous history.
Data Module
Historical Farmgate Potato Prices
Market objectmatched producer-level price series
Primary measuresprice, range, and annual change
Key dimensionsregion, crop year, market class, unit
Commercial usebudget and downside benchmarking
Cycle contextacreage, yield, storage, demand
Compare withcontracts and current farmgate market
Analysis
Why this matters
Historical price data becomes misleading when definitions drift. A series that switches regions, products, or market stages can create apparent cycles that are really changes in measurement.
Commercial interpretation should preserve the same producer-level basis through time and use structural context to explain outliers. The most useful history is not the longest series; it is the longest series that still describes the same economic exposure.
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 growers, buyers, processors, lenders, and analysts comparing historical farmgate potato prices across crop years and regions. MassGain preserves the producer-level basis of each series: geography, variety or market class, grade, crop period, contract or spot status, unit, source, and reporting date.
Historical farmgate data is useful for budgeting, contract review, storage decisions, credit analysis, and cycle research, but only when unlike markets are not stitched together into a false continuous series. MassGain lets users compare matched producer-level observations, identify seasonal ranges and extreme years, and relate price history to acreage, yield, storage, processing demand, and broader physical-market conditions.
Use Case
A lender stress-tests a grower's revenue using ten years of farmgate prices. MassGain keeps processing and fresh-market series separate, normalizes units, and identifies low-price years associated with large crops and weak regional demand before the lender sets downside assumptions.
FAQs
What is a historical farmgate potato price?
A producer-level potato value from a defined region, crop period, product, and commercial basis.
Can farmgate series from different regions be combined?
Only after differences in product, unit, market class, and basis are documented and reconciled.
What can historical farmgate data support?
Budgeting, storage decisions, contract review, credit stress tests, and cycle analysis.
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Data and Methodology
Professional market-data standards
MassGain is building transparent public market infrastructure. Each live metric will identify its date, unit, coverage, methodology, and source basis.
Data provenance
MassGain uses public, licensed, contributed, and independently derived physical-market information. Source availability and publication schedules vary.
Timing and revisions
Figures may reflect the latest available observation rather than a same-day transaction. Source data and MassGain calculations may be corrected, restated, or revised.
Not transactional pricing
MassGain figures are informational reference values and do not constitute executable bids, offers, settlements, or guarantees that a transaction can occur at the displayed value.
No individualized advice
Content and data are provided for informational and analytical purposes and do not constitute financial, investment, legal, trading, or individualized procurement advice.
Independent publication
Certain observations may be derived from USDA reports. MassGain is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USDA.
Commercial use and licensing
Public display does not grant rights to reproduce, redistribute, republish, or incorporate MassGain indices or references into commercial products or contracts without authorization.