Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Historical Potato Prices
Historical potato prices provide the time-series context needed to judge current physical-market conditions against prior seasons, crop years, and regional episodes. MassGain preserves geography, product, unit, timing, and source basis so processors can choose relevant analog periods for budgets, forecasts, negotiations, and stress testing instead of relying on a simple long-term average.
Market Data
How to read this market
Historical potato prices provide the time-series context needed to compare current physical-market conditions with prior crop years, seasons, regions, and product forms. Useful history preserves the definitions behind each observation: geography, variety or end use, grade, pack, unit, source basis, and date.
MassGain helps processors use that history for seasonal baselines, budget assumptions, contract analysis, volatility studies, and forecast calibration. Analysts can examine comparable crop transitions or regional events rather than relying on a simple long-term average that may combine unlike market structures.
Data Module
Historical price context
Series basisregion, product, unit, and market channel
Seasonalityrecurring within-year price patterns
Crop transitionsold-crop versus new-crop behavior
Historical rangetypical and extreme observations
Analog periodscomparable supply or demand episodes
Decision usebudgets, forecasts, negotiations, and stress tests
Analysis
Why this matters
History is useful as context, not destiny. A multi-year average can hide short crop-transition spikes, regional divergence, storage deterioration, or structural changes in processing demand. The relevant comparison is usually a set of similar market states rather than every past observation weighted equally.
MassGain's value is in preserving enough market basis to select those analogs correctly. A processor can examine how prior regional firmness transmitted into contracts or plant costs and how long comparable episodes lasted. That evidence can improve scenario ranges without implying the same path will repeat. Historical data should discipline assumptions while remaining subordinate to current crop, storage, demand, and market conditions.
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 that need a reliable historical record of potato prices for budgeting, contract analysis, margin review, and model development. Historical potato prices show how markets behaved across crop years, seasons, regions, product forms, and periods of supply disruption. MassGain’s potato data suite helps analysts work with a consistent series rather than assembling disconnected reports whose definitions, units, or geographic coverage may differ.
For processors, history is most valuable when it is used as context rather than as a simple average. A five-year mean can hide crop-transition spikes, regional divergence, storage deterioration, or structural changes in demand. MassGain allows procurement and finance teams to compare current conditions with relevant analog periods, inspect the observations behind a benchmark, and identify how quickly past market moves appeared in contracts, plant costs, or customer pricing.
Historical data can support seasonal baselines, forecast calibration, supplier negotiations, standard-cost development, and stress testing. Analysts can measure volatility, percentile ranges, recurring timing patterns, and the lag between market movement and internal financial impact. MassGain also preserves provenance and methodology so the series can be reused across departments with a clear audit trail. It does not imply that history will repeat exactly; it gives teams a disciplined reference for judging whether current assumptions are ordinary, extreme, or inconsistent with prior potato-market behavior.
Use Case
A dehydrated-potato processor is setting next year’s standard cost after a volatile season. Finance uses MassGain historical prices to compare the current regional benchmark with ten prior crop transitions, then measures the typical range and duration of comparable price increases. The analysis shows the latest spike is high but historically short-lived. The company avoids embedding the peak into a full-year budget and instead uses a temporary first-quarter premium with a scheduled review.
FAQs
What can historical potato prices be used for?
They can support seasonal analysis, forecasting, budgeting, negotiations, volatility studies, scenario design, and contract review.
Why are regional and product definitions important?
Prices from different regions, varieties, grades, pack styles, or market channels may not be directly comparable.
Does historical performance predict future potato prices?
No. History provides context and analogs, but current crop, demand, storage, and market conditions still determine the outlook.
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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.
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