Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Nymex Potato Contract History
nymex potato contract history turns a legacy futures series into a documented contract timeline. MassGain preserves product definitions, delivery geography, listing status, liquidity, structural breaks, regional cash prices, and basis so historical data can be used without manufacturing continuity.
Market Data
How to read this market
NYMEX potato-contract-history data organizes listing periods, product specifications, delivery geography, settlement rules, liquidity, participation, contract changes, and inactive periods.
Use the data to understand what the historical series represented and to compare it with physical potato prices, regional crop conditions, storage, freight, and basis without creating false continuity.
Data Module
NYMEX Potato Contract History
Market objecthistorical contract timeline
Primary fieldslisting, product, delivery, settlement
Key dimensionsregion, liquidity, changes, status
Commercial usemarket-history and model governance
Controlsinactive periods and structural breaks
Compare withphysical cash-market history
Analysis
Why this matters
Historical contract data can look continuous even when specifications, exchange structure, or liquidity changed materially. Those breaks alter what the price represents.
Commercial interpretation should preserve each contract regime and avoid splicing legacy futures directly into current cash series without explicit basis work.
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 processors, lenders, traders, researchers, and agricultural finance teams studying NYMEX potato contract history. MassGain organizes the history around the exchange product itself: listing period, underlying potato definition, delivery geography, settlement structure, market participation, liquidity, and eventual discontinuation or inactivity.
That history matters because old futures prices are easy to misread as a continuous benchmark. Contract specifications may change, liquidity can disappear, and the deliverable market may represent only a narrow regional exposure. MassGain connects the archival series with physical potato prices, crop conditions, regional supply, storage, and basis relationships so users can see what the contract actually measured.
The page supports historical research, model governance, hedge-policy analysis, and credit work. MassGain does not extend an inactive contract into a synthetic current market or imply that historical NYMEX prices describe present-day U.S. potato costs. It provides the definitions and discontinuity controls needed to use the historical record without creating false precision.
Use Case
A lender receives a twenty-year commodity chart that splices an old NYMEX potato series into modern cash data. MassGain identifies the discontinuity, documents the underlying contract and region, and helps the lender rebuild the model with explicit historical and current physical-market segments.
FAQs
What should be included in NYMEX potato contract history?
Listing dates, product specification, delivery basis, liquidity, market participation, contract changes, and inactive periods.
Why can the historical series be misleading?
A legacy contract may represent a narrow region and can contain structural breaks that are not comparable with modern cash prices.
How does MassGain make the history usable?
It documents contract definitions and aligns archival prices with the physical market and basis they represented.
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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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