Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
New Brunswick Potato Prices
New Brunswick 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 Maine and eastern Canadian markets, then add freight, quality, and recovery to judge delivered usable cost.
Market Data
How to read this market
New Brunswick potato prices reflect a major Atlantic Canadian processing region connected commercially with Maine, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and other eastern markets. Values depend on variety, end use, contracted acreage, crop quality, storage, processor demand, delivery timing, open-market availability, currency, and freight.
MassGain helps processors compare provincial observations with historical values and practical cross-border alternatives. The market benchmark should then be adjusted for solids, defects, recovery, border costs, freight, and contract timing to determine delivered usable economics.
Data Module
New Brunswick price context
Regionprovincial processing-potato market
Supplycontracted crop, storage, and open-market availability
Qualityvariety, solids, defects, and plant suitability
Regional alternativesMaine and eastern Canadian markets
Decision usecontract, supplemental sourcing, and plant budgets
Analysis
Why this matters
New Brunswick processing-grade supply can tighten even when total provincial inventory looks adequate because quality and contract coverage narrow the truly available pool. Cross-border Maine prices help test the premium, but currency, border logistics, freight, and recovery determine whether substitution is practical.
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, frozen-potato manufacturers, dehydrators, and ingredient procurement teams that need to benchmark New Brunswick potato prices within a major Atlantic Canadian production and processing region. Provincial values can vary by variety, end use, contract coverage, crop year, yield, quality, storage condition, delivery timing, and freight. New Brunswick also trades closely with Maine, Quebec, Prince Edward Island, and other eastern markets, so a local quotation should be interpreted against practical cross-border and interprovincial alternatives. MassGain’s potato data suite places current offers beside provincial history, crop development, storage-risk signals, processor demand, and regional price relationships.
For a processor, the relevant comparison is delivered cost per usable tonne or finished case. A lower-priced lot may lose its advantage through border costs, freight, weaker solids, defects, or inconsistent storage performance. MassGain provides the independent market and availability layer, while procurement and operations add intake results, plant recovery, contract timing, logistics, and inventory coverage. This helps determine whether a New Brunswick premium reflects genuine processing-grade tightness, a short delivery window, or a supplier-specific term.
The analysis supports grower-contract reviews, supplemental purchases, inventory valuation, budgets, and alternate-origin sourcing. MassGain does not disclose private contracts or certify individual loads. It provides a traceable benchmark framework for comparing New Brunswick potatoes with commercially realistic alternatives and documenting decisions using delivered, usable economics.
Use Case
A New Brunswick frozen-potato plant develops a five-week coverage gap after stored potatoes deliver lower solids than forecast. A nearby seller offers compliant volume at a premium, while Maine supply is cheaper at origin but requires border coordination and additional freight. MassGain confirms that immediate New Brunswick processing-grade availability is tight but that later regional supply is improving. Procurement buys a short local tranche to protect production, schedules the remaining loads from Maine, and compares both sources using delivered cost, expected recovery, and downtime exposure.
FAQs
What drives New Brunswick potato prices?
Variety, contracted acreage, yield, quality, storage, processor demand, delivery timing, open-market availability, and freight all affect value.
Can New Brunswick prices be compared directly with Maine offers?
Only after normalizing currency, specification, crop period, border costs, freight, quality, and expected plant recovery.
How does MassGain help New Brunswick processors?
It combines provincial benchmarks, crop and storage signals, historical relationships, and nearby alternatives for delivered-cost analysis.
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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
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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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