Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Benchmark Coverage Gap
Potato benchmark coverage gap analysis shows where plants, suppliers, products, or regions lack a price reference that truly matches the exposure. MassGain ranks gaps by volume, spend, basis history, and decision impact so teams can improve pricing architecture without forcing weak proxies into uncovered markets.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato benchmark-coverage-gap data identifies parts of a sourcing portfolio that lack a reliable price reference for the exact region, variety, grade, package, delivery point, crop period, or market stage being purchased. The market object is uncovered physical exposure and the quality of any available proxy.
Use the data to map plants, suppliers, contracts, and spend against direct benchmarks, adjusted references, proxy series, or no usable reference. Rank gaps by commercial exposure and test historical basis before adopting the nearest visible index as a substitute.
Data Module
Potato Benchmark Coverage Gap
Market objectunbenchmarked physical exposure
Primary measuresuncovered volume and proxy quality
Key dimensionsplant, region, variety, market stage
Commercial usepricing-governance prioritization
Coverage statusdirect, adjusted, proxy, absent
Compare withspend, basis history, data depth
Analysis
Why this matters
A benchmark gap creates uncertainty even when the broader potato market is well reported. Specialty varieties or remote plants can sit outside the geography and product scope of the main references, leaving supplier quotations with disproportionate influence.
Commercial interpretation should avoid solving the gap with a weak proxy simply to achieve full coverage. A wider risk range and targeted data collection can be more defensible than a precise-looking benchmark with poor physical fit.
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 identify where an existing potato benchmark fails to cover the company’s actual exposure. A coverage gap can occur when no reliable reference exists for a region, variety, grade, package, delivery point, crop period, or market stage, or when a published series is too thin or delayed to support decisions.
MassGain maps every plant, supplier, product, and contract against available price series and records whether the match is direct, adjusted, proxy-based, or absent. Procurement can see which spend is governed by strong benchmarks and which remains exposed to supplier quotations or internal estimates. Finance can quantify the budget and valuation uncertainty created by uncovered tonnes. Market-intelligence teams can prioritize data collection, contributor recruitment, regional weighting, or replacement-series research where the commercial exposure is largest.
A benchmark coverage gap is not solved by attaching the nearest visible index. MassGain documents product and methodological fit, observation frequency, contributor breadth, and historical basis before accepting a proxy. The result is a governed coverage map that helps organizations improve contracts and pricing architecture without creating false confidence from references that do not represent the potatoes being bought.
Use Case
A multi-plant processor finds that 78% of purchases map cleanly to regional processing-potato benchmarks, but one plant’s specialty variety has no reliable series. MassGain quantifies the uncovered spend, compares three imperfect proxies, and supports a temporary blended reference while a contributor panel is developed.
FAQs
What creates a benchmark coverage gap?
Missing regions, products, grades, market stages, delivery bases, or sufficiently frequent observations can create one.
Should the nearest index be used automatically?
No. Historical basis and physical-market fit should be tested before a proxy is adopted.
How does MassGain prioritize gaps?
It ranks them by spend, volume, contract use, decision impact, and available alternative evidence.
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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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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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