Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Peeled Potato Market
The peeled potato market is a value-added supply chain shaped by suitable raw potatoes, peeling recovery, trim, labor, packaging, refrigeration, shelf life, and processor capacity. Prepared-food and foodservice buyers can normalize suppliers on delivered usable product and identify whether quote changes come from the crop or conversion.
Market Data
How to read this market
Peeled-potato market data covers value-added fresh or refrigerated potatoes after skin removal, trimming, washing, treatment, packaging, and cold-chain handling. The market object is a specified peeled product linked to raw-potato origin, size and quality, peeling recovery, pack format, shelf life, processor capacity, freight, and customer channel.
Use the data to separate changes in raw-potato cost from conversion, labor, packaging, refrigeration, yield, and logistics. Compare suppliers on delivered usable product and specification rather than case price alone, because trim loss, net usable weight, shelf life, and freight can change the real procurement cost.
Data Module
Peeled Potato Market
Market objectvalue-added peeled potato
Primary driversraw cost and peeling yield
Key dimensionsorigin, pack, shelf life, specification
End usefoodservice and prepared foods
Commercial usequote normalization
Compare withraw potato, conversion, freight
Analysis
Why this matters
The peeled-potato market can tighten independently of generic potato supply because only certain sizes, shapes, and quality profiles deliver efficient peeling and shelf life. Adequate raw tonnage can therefore coexist with weak peeled-product availability.
Commercial interpretation should decompose supplier increases. A raw-market move supports only the commodity portion of a quote; poor packout, processor capacity, packaging, or cold-chain constraints may explain the rest and may be temporary rather than structural.
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 prepared-food processors, fresh-cut manufacturers, foodservice suppliers, distributors, and procurement teams tracking the peeled potato market. Peeled potatoes are a value-added input whose price and availability depend on suitable raw potatoes, peeling recovery, size and defect profile, labor, water, sanitation, preservatives, packaging, refrigeration, shelf life, freight, and processing capacity. MassGain helps buyers separate these components and connect finished-input pricing with the underlying physical potato market.
The market can tighten even when general potato supply appears adequate. A shortage of smooth, correctly sized potatoes can reduce peeling yield, while poor storage quality raises trim and waste. MassGain combines regional raw-potato benchmarks, crop and storage conditions, processor capacity, quality, pack format, shelf-life requirements, freight, and customer demand. Procurement can compare suppliers on delivered usable cost, processors can forecast conversion economics, and finance can distinguish commodity movement from labor, packaging, or cold-chain pressure. The platform also helps evaluate alternate origins, specifications, and peeled formats without treating them as interchangeable. MassGain does not publish a universal peeled-potato transaction price or estimate a supplier’s private margin. It provides the external market framework needed to validate quotes, prepare tenders, anticipate supply constraints, and understand when a finished-input price move is supported by raw-material conditions.
Use Case
A meal manufacturer receives a large increase on refrigerated peeled potatoes. MassGain shows raw-potato values rose modestly, but the supplier’s region is experiencing weak pack-out and higher trimming loss. Procurement validates part of the increase, tests another origin, and negotiates a temporary quality-related adjustment rather than a permanent commodity reset.
FAQs
What drives peeled potato market prices?
Raw potatoes, peeling yield, defects, labor, water, sanitation, packaging, refrigeration, freight, shelf life, and capacity all contribute.
Why can peeled-potato supply tighten independently?
Suitable size, quality, processor capacity, cold-chain limits, and shelf-life requirements narrow usable supply.
How does MassGain help buyers compare suppliers?
It normalizes raw-market exposure, usable yield, specification, freight, shelf life, and delivered cost.
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Data and Methodology
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