Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Crop Insurance Written Agreement
Potato crop insurance written agreement data helps users track exceptional or modified coverage without confusing a request with approved protection. MassGain links fields, acreage, practices, supporting records, status, deadlines, contracts, and financial scenarios so uncertainty remains explicit until an official decision is issued.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato crop-insurance-written-agreement data tracks a request or approved agreement that establishes or modifies coverage terms for a specific producer, crop, practice, type, or area. The market object is the agreement status by field, acreage, policy year, requested terms, supporting evidence, deadlines, and final decision.
Use the data to distinguish pending requests from approved coverage and connect exceptional insurance terms with crop, contract, and financing scenarios.
Data Module
Potato Crop Insurance Written Agreement
Market objectexceptional coverage agreement
Primary fieldsrequest, terms, status, effective year
Key dimensionsfield, acreage, practice, type
Commercial usecoverage and financing planning
Risk contextpending vs approved terms
Compare withcontracts and production scenarios
Analysis
Why this matters
The largest analytical mistake is treating a submitted written-agreement request as if coverage already exists. Until approval, the downside financial position may be materially different.
Commercial interpretation should model both approval and denial cases and update the physical and financing plan only when the official status changes.
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.
October 26, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Flat headline prices mask a regional squeeze on carton russets
MassGain’s physical indicators are unchanged, but USDA shipping‑point reports and terminal quotes show premiums for 40–70s russets. UCUI remains NORMAL even as European yields and UK storage quality draw attention.
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, grower, lender, and insurance-risk teams that need to track a potato crop-insurance written agreement. A written agreement may modify or establish coverage terms for a specific producer, crop, practice, type, or area when standard actuarial provisions do not fully address the situation. Its scope, conditions, dates, and supporting evidence must be matched precisely to the acreage involved.
MassGain organizes the agreement request, policy year, fields, acreage, practice, variety or type, approved terms, deadlines, supporting production history, maps, and communications. Growers can confirm which acres are covered under exceptional terms. Lenders can distinguish approved coverage from a pending request. Procurement teams can understand whether a supplier’s unusual production area carries expected financial protection. Risk teams can model outcomes with and without approval.
MassGain does not prepare agreements, determine eligibility, or interpret policy language. It provides a controlled evidence and planning framework that prevents pending terms from being treated as final and connects the agreement with physical crop, contracts, and financing.
Use Case
A grower expands processing potatoes into a county without standard coverage for the intended practice. MassGain tracks the written-agreement request, supporting yield records, maps, deadlines, and status. The lender models both approval and denial cases until the official decision is received.
FAQs
What is a crop-insurance written agreement?
It is an approved document establishing or modifying coverage terms for a specific situation under applicable procedures.
Is a submitted request the same as approved coverage?
No. Coverage remains uncertain until the authorized decision and terms are issued.
How does MassGain manage the process?
It links requests, evidence, fields, acres, terms, dates, status, contracts, and financial scenarios.
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Data and Methodology
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