Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Maine Round White Potato Futures
maine round white potato futures is a product-specific historical derivative rather than a generic potato price series. MassGain documents the exchange contract, delivery geography, grade, liquidity, settlement, Maine cash-market context, and basis limits before archival data is compared with modern markets.
Market Data
How to read this market
Maine Round White potato-futures data documents the historical contract's exact product definition, grade or delivery requirements, unit, exchange, delivery geography, listing period, settlement, and liquidity.
Use the data to compare the archival financial series with Maine Round White physical-market conditions and to avoid treating a narrow product contract as equivalent to modern processing or russet markets.
Data Module
Maine Round White Potato Futures
Market objecthistorical product-specific derivative
Primary fieldsproduct, exchange, delivery, period
Key dimensionsgrade, region, settlement, liquidity
Commercial usehistorical and basis analysis
Risk contextproduct and regional mismatch
Compare withMaine cash-market evidence
Analysis
Why this matters
Product definition is central to interpreting historical potato futures. Round Whites, russets, chipping potatoes, and processing contracts can have different cash-market behavior.
Commercial interpretation should preserve the exact deliverable specification and avoid direct comparisons with modern markets that do not share the same product and regional basis.
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 page is for commodity historians, processors, agricultural lenders, traders, and risk managers researching Maine Round White potato futures. The phrase refers to a specific historical product definition, which is important because potato futures were not contracts on an undifferentiated national commodity.
MassGain helps users identify the exchange listing, delivery specifications, grade and product basis, historical trading period, and relationship between the futures series and Maine’s physical potato market. It then connects the archival contract with regional production, storage, quality, freight, and cash-price conditions. That context is essential for understanding basis and for avoiding the common error of treating a narrow legacy contract as a universal U.S. potato benchmark.
The page supports historical research, quantitative backtesting, model governance, and hedge-policy analysis. MassGain does not imply that Maine Round White potato futures remain currently tradable. It provides a defensible way to interpret the historical series, understand what physical market it represented, and decide whether the data has any useful role in modern market analysis.
Use Case
A researcher encounters a Maine Round White futures series in an archival database and wants to compare it with modern processing-potato prices. MassGain documents the product and delivery basis first, showing why a direct splice would create substantial basis and product-definition errors.
FAQs
What were Maine Round White potato futures?
They were historical futures tied to a specified Maine potato product and exchange delivery basis.
Why is the variety or product definition important?
Different potato types and end uses can have materially different cash markets and price behavior.
Can the series be compared with modern processing potatoes?
Only with careful basis adjustments and documentation of differences in region, product, quality, and market structure.
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Data and Methodology
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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.
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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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