Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Crop Loss Assessment
Potato crop loss assessment separates biological production loss from reductions in marketable yield, processing quality, storage value, and contract performance. MassGain connects field or regional evidence with prices, quality, contracts, and replacement supply to estimate commercial impact.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato Crop Loss Assessment separates physical crop damage from reductions in marketable yield, processing quality, storage value, and contract performance. The object can include affected acreage, tonnes, size, solids, disease, harvest loss, abandonment, rejection, and alternate disposition by region and crop year.
Use regional history, field evidence, quality, prices, contracts, and replacement supply to translate the physical event into commercial loss. Gross tonnage loss should not be used alone when quality or timing changes the value of the crop that remains.
Data Module
Potato Crop Loss Assessment
Areaaffected fields or region
Volumegross and marketable yield
Qualitysize, solids, defects, disease
Commercialcontracts and disposition
Marketprice and replacement supply
Decision useeconomic-loss estimate
Analysis
Why this matters
Economic loss can exceed biological loss when damaged potatoes are downgraded, rejected, or forced into a lower-value channel. It can also be smaller than headline field damage if alternate production or contracts absorb the shortfall. The analysis should bridge physical damage to realizable value.
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, agricultural lenders, insurers, and adjusters that need a structured potato crop loss assessment. Crop loss should distinguish biological production loss from reductions in marketable yield, processing quality, storage value, or contract performance. MassGain provides regional crop, weather, yield, price, quality, and historical context that helps users frame the size and commercial consequence of the event.
A loss assessment can include damaged acreage, reduced tonnes, size or solids problems, disease, harvest delay, abandonment, storage deterioration, rejection, and the value of alternate disposition. MassGain helps users compare affected fields or regions with normal production, identify whether the event is localized or market-wide, and connect the physical loss with current prices and replacement availability. Growers can document exposure, processors can estimate contract shortfall, lenders can update collateral and cash flow, and insurers can place reported conditions in regional context. MassGain does not determine official claims or replace field inspection. It supplies the independent market and crop framework needed to separate quantity, quality, timing, and price effects and avoid reducing a complex potato loss to one headline percentage.
Use Case
After excessive rain, a grower reports only a modest tonnage decline but a large loss of processing-grade potatoes. MassGain compares field and regional yield, quality, market prices, contract requirements, and alternate disposition. The lender and processor recognize a greater economic loss than the gross-yield number alone suggests.
FAQs
What belongs in a potato crop loss assessment?
Acreage, yield, quality, size, solids, disease, harvest loss, storage, contracts, prices, and alternate disposition may all matter.
Why can economic loss exceed tonnage loss?
Quality failure, rejection, lower-value disposition, replacement cost, and contract penalties can magnify the financial effect.
How does MassGain support loss assessment?
It compares affected production with regional history, crop conditions, market prices, quality, contracts, and supply availability.
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Data and Methodology
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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.
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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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