Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Custom Storage Rates
Potato custom storage rates record third-party charges by tonne, hundredweight, bin, month, season, handling event, or bundled service. Growers and processors can compare facilities after adding freight, energy, handling, expected shrink, quality performance, release responsiveness, and the storage regime required by the product.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato custom-storage-rate data records third-party charges for holding potatoes by tonne, hundredweight, bin, month, season, handling event, or bundled service. The market object is the storage offer by facility, location, temperature regime, duration, capacity, ventilation or refrigeration, monitoring, handling, shrink allowance, release terms, energy adjustment, and insurance.
Use the data to compare facilities on cost per accepted tonne after inbound and outbound freight, expected shrink, quality performance, and service responsiveness. Match the facility to fresh, processing, seed, or specialty storage requirements.
Data Module
Potato Custom Storage Rates
Market objectthird-party potato storage service
Primary measuresstorage rate and recovered cost
Key dimensionsfacility, duration, regime, service
Commercial usestorage sourcing and hold analysis
Cost contextenergy, handling, shrink, freight
Compare withquality outcomes and market timing
Analysis
Why this matters
The cheapest storage rate can produce the highest recovered cost when shrink, claims, distant freight, or poor release service reduce usable value. Nominal storage and quality preservation are different products.
Commercial interpretation should compare total cost per accepted tonne at release. Facility performance matters most when inventory is intended for a long or specification-sensitive hold.
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 distributors and wholesalers, growers, processors, and procurement teams that need to benchmark potato custom-storage rates. Storage may be charged per tonne, hundredweight, bin, month, season, or service package and can include receiving, ventilation, refrigeration, sprout management, monitoring, handling, shrink allowance, and release. MassGain helps users define the included services and compare facilities fairly.
The suite can organize storage type, temperature regime, duration, capacity, location, energy adjustment, quality controls, handling events, insurance, minimum volume, and release terms. Users can compare the quoted rate with regional storage availability, energy costs, crop size, quality outcomes, freight, and replacement value. Procurement can determine whether distant storage remains economical. Growers can evaluate holding versus selling. Finance can model carrying cost and working capital.
The cheapest facility may create higher shrink, quality loss, or transport cost. MassGain does not certify storage performance or recommend facilities. It provides a transparent delivered-and-recovered cost framework that connects storage rates with actual condition, service, location, and market timing.
Use Case
A processor compares two third-party stores for late-season potatoes. MassGain adds inbound and outbound freight, historical shrink, energy surcharges, quality claims, and release responsiveness. The higher base-rate facility delivers better usable recovery and a lower cost per accepted tonne.
FAQs
How are custom potato storage rates structured?
Rates may be per tonne, bin, month, season, handling event, or bundled service.
What costs can sit outside the headline rate?
Energy, loading, unloading, monitoring, treatment, shrink, insurance, and freight may be separate.
How does MassGain compare facilities?
It links rates with location, duration, services, quality, shrink, handling, freight, and market value.
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Data and Methodology
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Timing and revisions
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