Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Benchmark Value Submissions
Potato benchmark value submissions capture the monetary basis behind eligible physical business. MassGain separates gross invoice, net potato, delivered, and final-settlement values and reconciles them with volume, freight, quality, rebates, credits, currency, and timing before calculating comparable unit values.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato benchmark-value-submission data records the monetary value associated with eligible physical potato business and distinguishes gross invoice, net potato, farmgate, FOB, delivered, and final-settlement bases. The market object is the reconciled value matched to volume, product, freight, quality adjustments, rebates, currency, and period.
Use the data to calculate comparable unit values and to remove taxes, deposits, mixed-product charges, duplicate invoices, credits, or other components excluded by methodology. Preserve later adjustments and their benchmark effect.
Data Module
Potato Benchmark Value Submissions
Market objectreconciled transaction value
Primary measureeligible monetary value
Key dimensionsbasis, product, volume, currency
Commercial useunit-value and benchmark calculation
Adjustmentsfreight, quality, rebates, credits
Compare withfinal settlement and source invoice
Analysis
Why this matters
Invoice value can differ materially from potato value when freight, packaging, deposits, credits, or multiple products are included. Using the gross number can create a false unit price.
Commercial interpretation should reconcile value with the exact eligible tonnes and market basis. Later quality credits or settlement changes should update the audit trail without silently rewriting the original observation.
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 managing potato benchmark value submissions. MassGain captures the monetary value associated with eligible physical purchases or sales and preserves currency, taxes, freight, packaging, quality adjustments, rebates, commissions, storage payments, and settlement timing.
It reconciles submitted value with volume and commercial terms before calculating unit values or weighting a benchmark. The suite distinguishes gross invoice value, net potato value, delivered value, and final settled value so unlike bases are not combined. Administrators can identify duplicate invoices, later credits, related-party transactions, and values that reflect multiple products or periods.
Analysts can decompose market movement into price, volume, mix, freight, and quality effects and assess whether one high-value transaction dominates the result. MassGain does not provide accounting assurance or infer missing private business. It provides a transparent valuation framework that shows exactly which monetary components support the benchmark and prevents a blended invoice total from being mistaken for a clean physical potato price.
Use Case
A buyer submits an invoice value for a benchmark. MassGain separates potato value from freight, reusable-container deposits, and a retroactive quality credit, then matches the net amount with accepted tonnes. The corrected unit value enters the benchmark and the excluded components remain auditable.
FAQs
Which value should enter a benchmark?
The methodology must define whether gross, net, farmgate, FOB, delivered, or final settled value is eligible.
Why reconcile value with volume?
Unit values are misleading when invoices include different quantities, products, freight, credits, or settlement periods.
How does MassGain handle later adjustments?
It records credits, deductions, and revisions and shows their effect on the original observation and published series.
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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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