Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Crop Insurance Coverage Map
A potato crop insurance coverage map shows where financial protection is concentrated relative to potato production and processor sourcing. MassGain links insured acreage, participation, coverage levels, weather, production, and plant dependence so risk teams can identify regions where critical supply remains financially or physically exposed.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato crop-insurance-coverage-map data places insured acreage, participation, liability, guarantees, or coverage levels on a geographic layer tied to production regions and processor sourcing. The market object is spatial concentration of financial protection relative to physical supply.
Use the data to identify regions where critical potato acreage has weak or uneven insurance support and overlay weather, yield, disease, storage, or plant dependence.
Data Module
Potato Crop Insurance Coverage Map
Market objectgeographic insurance footprint
Primary measuresinsured acres, participation, liability
Key dimensionscounty, farm region, crop, coverage
Commercial usegeographic risk mapping
Risk contextweather and sourcing concentration
Compare withproduction and processor dependence
Analysis
Why this matters
High insurance participation does not necessarily mean high supply resilience because coverage level, quality protection, and processor dependence can vary within the same region. Financial and physical protection are different maps.
Commercial interpretation should overlay sourcing concentration and hazard exposure rather than reading participation alone as security.
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 commodity-finance, procurement, grower, and risk teams that need a geographic view of potato crop-insurance coverage. A coverage map can show where insured acreage, liability, guarantees, participation, or coverage levels are concentrated and where critical potato supply may have limited financial protection.
MassGain links county and farm geographies with acreage, production, practices, varieties, processor sourcing regions, policy units, coverage choices, weather, and historical losses. Lenders can identify concentration in high-risk areas. Processors can see whether a plant depends on growers with weak or uneven coverage. Growers and producer organizations can compare participation patterns without exposing confidential individual records. Risk teams can layer drought, flood, hail, disease, or storage exposure onto the insurance footprint.
MassGain does not publish confidential policyholder data, determine coverage adequacy, or provide insurance advice. It provides an aggregated and permissioned mapping framework that distinguishes official data from internal estimates and connects financial protection with the physical potato supply chain.
Use Case
A processor maps contracted acreage around two plants. MassGain shows one basin has high insured participation but limited quality coverage, while another has lower participation and severe hail concentration. Procurement diversifies critical variety volume and targets supplier-resilience discussions by region.
FAQs
What can a potato insurance coverage map show?
It can show insured acreage, participation, liability, coverage levels, units, or guarantees by geography.
Why overlay processor sourcing?
Insurance concentration matters most where plants depend on the same growers, varieties, and weather exposure.
How does MassGain protect sensitive data?
It supports aggregation, permissions, and clear separation of public, contributed, and internal records.
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Data and Methodology
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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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