Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Benchmark Contributor Concentration
Potato benchmark contributor concentration measures how dependent a price reference is on a small number of reporting participants or related entities. MassGain compares source shares with actual market structure and tests benchmark sensitivity so apparent contributor breadth is not mistaken for independent evidence.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato benchmark-contributor-concentration data measures how dependent a benchmark is on a small number of reporting companies, participant types, regions, or related entities. The market object is contributor influence by transaction count, volume, value, product, geography, and observation type.
Use the data to calculate source shares, effective contributor counts, or concentration measures while preserving confidentiality. Compare concentration with the actual structure of the physical market and test how the benchmark changes if dominant or duplicate submissions are capped or removed.
Data Module
Potato Benchmark Contributor Concentration
Market objectsource concentration in benchmark evidence
Primary measurescontributor share and effective breadth
Key dimensionsvolume, value, region, product
Commercial usebenchmark-risk governance
Control contextrelated entities and duplicate trades
Compare withactual market concentration
Analysis
Why this matters
A benchmark can list many contributors yet depend economically on one processor or a few merchants reporting the same downstream transaction. Apparent diversity and independent evidence are not the same.
Commercial interpretation should distinguish structural market concentration from avoidable reporting dependence. High concentration may be defensible in a concentrated market, but its influence and sensitivity should be visible to users.
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 procurement and market-intelligence teams that need to measure potato benchmark contributor concentration. A benchmark can appear well populated while most observations come from one company, one participant type, one region, or related entities. High concentration raises the risk that the index reflects a narrow book rather than the broader physical market.
MassGain can calculate contributor shares by transaction count, volume, value, region, product, and observation type while preserving confidentiality. Analysts can use top-contributor ratios, effective contributor counts, or concentration indices and compare them across periods. Procurement can understand whether a contract reference depends heavily on one supplier or buyer. Governance teams can set minimum breadth, caps, review thresholds, and outreach priorities. The suite can also detect when reported diversity is superficial because several contributors share ownership or repeat the same transaction.
Concentration does not automatically invalidate a benchmark if the underlying market itself is concentrated. MassGain does not expose identities to unauthorized users or prescribe a fixed threshold. It provides a transparent, permissioned framework that distinguishes structural market concentration from avoidable reporting dependence and shows how the benchmark changes if dominant submissions are reduced or removed.
Use Case
A potato index lists twelve contributors, but MassGain shows one processor supplies 46% of eligible volume and three merchants report the same downstream trades. The administrator caps duplicate influence and recruits growers and wholesalers from underrepresented districts.
FAQs
What is contributor concentration?
It is the degree to which benchmark evidence depends on a small number of reporting participants.
Is high concentration always unacceptable?
No. It may reflect the real market, but its influence and associated risk should be disclosed and tested.
How does MassGain measure it?
It calculates shares and concentration across volume, value, transactions, regions, products, and related entities.
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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.
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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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