Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Annual Trade Statistics
Potato annual trade statistics show long-run changes in cross-border volume, value, product mix, and partner concentration. Analysts can compare competitiveness and import dependence while separating physical volume from inflation, currency, and classification changes.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato annual-trade data provides a structural view of cross-border volume, value, product mix, partner concentration, and import or export dependence. The market object is the annual series by reporter, partner, product classification, currency, and flow direction.
Use the data to compare multi-year competitiveness, processing expansion, import reliance, and policy effects. Separate physical volume from nominal value and document classification or methodology changes so inflation, currency, or series breaks are not mistaken for real trade growth.
Data Module
Potato Annual Trade Statistics
Market objectannual cross-border potato flow
Primary measuresvolume, value, product mix
Key dimensionsreporter, partner, year
Commercial usestructural trade analysis
Market contextinflation, revisions, classification
Compare withproduction, capacity, domestic demand
Analysis
Why this matters
Annual totals reveal structural shifts but can hide short-lived shortages and product-mix changes. Higher trade value can reflect price or currency rather than more physical potatoes.
Commercial interpretation should separate volume, unit value, product mix, and series breaks before attributing a change to competitiveness or domestic availability.
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 analysts, processors, lenders, and market researchers that need annual potato trade statistics for long-horizon market analysis. Annual data provides a stable view of structural import dependence, export growth, partner concentration, product mix, and changes in national competitiveness. MassGain helps users compare years on consistent definitions and connect trade with production and demand.
The suite can organize yearly volume, value, unit value, product code, reporter, partner, and flow direction and compare them with acreage, yield, processing capacity, exchange rates, tariffs, and domestic prices. Analysts can identify whether growth is persistent or driven by one exceptional crop. Lenders can assess strategic exposure. Processors can compare local sourcing with long-term import trends. Policy teams can evaluate how trade patterns respond to regulation or investment.
Annual totals can hide monthly stress and may be revised or distorted by classification changes. MassGain documents breaks in series and does not treat nominal value growth as pure volume growth. It provides the structural trade view needed for planning, benchmarking, and multi-year risk assessment.
Use Case
A lender sees a country’s annual potato exports rise for five consecutive years. MassGain separates volume from inflation, shows growth is concentrated in frozen products after new plant investment, and incorporates the structural shift into processor-credit analysis.
FAQs
What do annual potato trade statistics reveal?
They reveal structural trends in volume, value, partners, product mix, and import or export dependence.
What can distort year-to-year comparisons?
Inflation, currency, classification changes, revisions, exceptional crops, and re-exports can distort them.
How does MassGain preserve comparability?
It normalizes definitions, products, units, currencies, partners, and series breaks across years.
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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.
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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