Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Crop Calendar Data
Potato crop calendar data provides the seasonal timing framework needed to interpret weather, crop, price, and supply signals correctly. Growers and procurement teams can compare expected and actual milestones, plan old-crop to new-crop transitions, and identify when alternate origins become commercially available.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato crop-calendar data records expected planting, emergence, canopy growth, tuber initiation, bulking, maturity, vine kill, harvest, curing, storage, and market-entry periods by region and variety. The market object is the seasonal timing framework for a specific potato supply chain.
Use the calendar to interpret weather and crop signals in the correct stage, compare expected versus actual milestones, and plan crop transitions between stored and new-crop origins. Align calendars with end use because fresh, processing, seed, and export channels may enter the market on different schedules.
Data Module
Potato Crop Calendar Data
Market objectregional crop timeline
Primary milestonesplanting through market entry
Key dimensionsregion, variety, end use
Commercial useseasonal interpretation
Supply-chain rolecrop-transition planning
Compare withactual crop progress and storage
Analysis
Why this matters
Timing changes the meaning of nearly every potato signal. Rainfall before planting, during bulking, or at harvest has different consequences, and a price premium during the old-crop/new-crop transition may be normal rather than exceptional.
Commercial interpretation should anchor data to the crop calendar before comparing regions or years. That prevents false anomalies created by different seasonal positions.
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 growers, processors, seed suppliers, procurement teams, and market researchers that need potato crop calendar data. A crop calendar records expected planting, emergence, canopy development, tuber initiation, bulking, maturity, vine kill, harvest, curing, storage, and market-entry periods by region and variety. MassGain standardizes those timelines and connects them with weather, crop progress, contracts, prices, storage, and supply movements.
Crop calendars create the timing framework needed to interpret market data correctly. A rainfall anomaly matters differently before planting than during harvest, and a price premium may be normal during the transition between old and new crop. MassGain compares expected and actual milestones, highlights regional overlap and gaps, and maps the timeline to processors and buyers. Growers can plan field and storage operations, procurement can anticipate crop-transition exposure, processors can schedule intake and maintenance, and analysts can avoid comparing unrelated production periods. Calendars also support international sourcing by showing when alternate origins are likely to become commercially available. MassGain does not guarantee field dates or replace local agronomy. It provides a maintained timing reference that helps users interpret crop, price, quality, and supply evidence in the correct seasonal context.
Use Case
A processor expects new-crop deliveries from one region to replace aging storage supply. MassGain’s crop calendar shows harvest has slipped two weeks while an alternate region enters market earlier. Procurement secures a limited bridge from the alternate origin and avoids extending poor-quality storage inventory.
FAQs
What can potato crop calendar data include?
It can include planting, emergence, growth stages, maturity, harvest, curing, storage, and market-entry periods.
Why are crop calendars important for price analysis?
They distinguish normal seasonal transitions from unusual supply or price events.
How does MassGain use crop calendars?
It aligns weather, crop progress, contracts, storage, prices, and alternate-origin timing.
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Data and Methodology
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