Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Crop Year Pricing
Potato crop year pricing organizes values around the production crop from which the potatoes originate. MassGain keeps old crop, stored supply, new crop, quality, contracts, and regional market conditions distinct so users can benchmark like production cycles.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato Crop Year Pricing organizes potato values according to the production crop from which the potatoes originate rather than only the calendar date of sale. This preserves the distinction between stored old crop and emerging new crop, each with different supply, quality, storage age, and contract conditions.
Use crop-year pricing to compare like production cycles, contracts, and regional markets and to prevent old- and new-crop observations from being blended into misleading averages. Link each price to crop, region, variety or end use, storage status, delivery period, and quality.
Data Module
Potato Crop Year Pricing Monitor
Crop yearproduction vintage
Regiongrowing and delivery market
Productvariety and end use
Statusfresh harvest or stored crop
Termscontract or spot basis
Decision usecrop-specific benchmarking
Analysis
Why this matters
Two prices observed on the same day can describe different economic markets when one is old crop and the other new crop. Scarcity, harvest pressure, quality, and storage age can create a legitimate gap. Crop-year attribution is therefore essential for benchmarking, forecasting, and contract review.
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
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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
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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
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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
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Overview
Who is this for?
This page is for growers, processors, procurement teams, lenders, and analysts that need to benchmark potato crop year pricing. Crop-year pricing organizes values around the production season from which the potatoes originate rather than only the calendar date of sale. MassGain helps users preserve that distinction across contracts, stored inventory, new-crop transitions, and historical analysis.
Two prices observed in the same month may represent different crop years and very different quality, storage, and supply conditions. Old-crop potatoes can carry a scarcity or quality discount, while new crop may enter with a harvest premium or pressure. MassGain connects crop-year prices with acreage, yield, quality, stocks, storage age, demand, contract terms, and regional availability. Growers can compare marketing outcomes, processors can align contracts and cost standards, and lenders can evaluate revenue and collateral by production cycle. The framework also prevents historical datasets from blending old and new crop into misleading averages. The result is a crop-specific pricing record that supports more accurate benchmarking, forecasting, contract review, and seasonal transition decisions.
Use Case
A processor reviews February purchases and sees a wide price range. MassGain separates stored old-crop contracts from early new-crop spot supply and shows the difference is driven by crop year, storage quality, and region. Finance avoids averaging the observations into one misleading benchmark.
FAQs
What is potato crop year pricing?
It organizes prices according to the production crop associated with the potatoes rather than calendar date alone.
Why can two crop years trade at different prices?
Supply, quality, storage age, yield, demand, and contract conditions differ between crops.
How does MassGain preserve crop-year context?
It links each price to crop, region, storage, market channel, quality, and delivery period.
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Data and Methodology
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