Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Commodity Exposure Reporting
Potato commodity exposure reporting reconciles contracted, indexed, inventory, and open positions into the risk that remains by plant, month, region, and specification. Procurement and finance teams can see where price, quality, delivery, or basis exposure is concentrated instead of relying on one annual coverage percentage.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato commodity-exposure reporting data maps physical and financial positions to the potato benchmarks, regions, plants, specifications, suppliers, and time periods that drive their risk. The market object is the uncovered or conditionally covered exposure after contracts, inventory, indexed purchases, and open requirements are reconciled.
Use the data to report exposure by month, plant, quality specification, supplier, and benchmark rather than relying on an annual contracted percentage. Include reset dates, basis, inventory coverage, and scenario sensitivity so teams can see where price, quality, or delivery risk remains concentrated.
Data Module
Potato Commodity Exposure
Market objectnet procurement exposure
Primary measureuncovered volume or value
Key dimensionsplant, month, region, specification
Coveragecontracts, inventory, indexed positions
Commercial userisk and margin reporting
Compare withcrop, storage, freight scenarios
Analysis
Why this matters
High annual contract coverage can coexist with meaningful risk if the open portion is concentrated in one late-storage month, plant, or difficult specification. Volume coverage and economic coverage are therefore not the same measure.
Commercial analysis should also separate fixed price from physical performance. A fixed contract may remove commodity-price risk while leaving quality, delivery, basis, or replacement-cost exposure fully open.
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 leaders, processors, restaurant systems, lenders, treasury teams, and risk managers that need a consolidated view of potato-related financial and physical exposure. Commodity exposure reporting maps contracted, indexed, open, inventory, supplier, regional, and timing positions to the relevant market benchmarks. MassGain helps organizations turn scattered contracts and purchase data into an understandable risk picture.
A useful report distinguishes gross volume from true sensitivity. Fixed-price contracts may limit immediate price exposure but leave quality or delivery risk; open volume may be small overall yet concentrated in a vulnerable month or region. MassGain combines internal positions with regional prices, crop and storage conditions, availability, freight, and historical volatility. Teams can report uncovered tonnes, benchmark basis, supplier concentration, contract reset dates, inventory coverage, and scenario impacts. Procurement can prioritize coverage decisions, finance can forecast margin and working capital, and leadership can see where a market event would translate into operational or earnings pressure. MassGain does not prescribe hedging or replace treasury policy. It provides the potato-specific data structure needed to report exposure consistently, avoid double counting, and connect market movement with the contracts and physical supply behind it.
Use Case
A frozen-food company reports that 85% of annual potato volume is contracted. MassGain reveals that most of the remaining open volume falls in one late-storage month at a single plant, prompting targeted coverage rather than a broad portfolio response.
FAQs
What belongs in potato commodity exposure reporting?
Contracts, open volume, inventory, benchmarks, basis, supplier and regional concentration, timing, and scenario impacts are common elements.
Why is annual coverage percentage insufficient?
Exposure may be concentrated in a particular plant, month, specification, supplier, or crop region.
How does MassGain support reporting?
It links internal positions with regional prices, supply, storage, availability, freight, and volatility.
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Data and Methodology
Professional market-data standards
MassGain is building transparent public market infrastructure. Each live metric will identify its date, unit, coverage, methodology, and source basis.
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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