Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Dealer Price Index
Potato dealer price index data measures movement across a defined panel of dealers and products with explicit regions, price evidence, weights, missing-data treatment, and update periods. Procurement can compare the index with actual purchases and identify whether a move reflects genuine pricing or changes in panel composition.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato dealer-price-index data measures price movement across a defined dealer panel and product basket. The market object is the index observation tied to participating dealer types, regions, potato products, price evidence, weights, missing-data treatment, methodology, and update period.
Use the data to track constituent changes, test historical basis to the buyer's purchases, and determine whether panel composition or genuine market movement explains an index change. Document reweighting, substitutions, and coverage gaps.
Data Module
Potato Dealer Price Index
Market objectdealer-panel price benchmark
Primary measureweighted price movement
Key dimensionsdealers, regions, products, weights
Commercial usecontract and directional benchmarking
Method contextcoverage, missing data, reweighting
Compare withinternal purchase prices
Analysis
Why this matters
An index can move even when like-for-like potato prices do not if the dealer panel shifts toward a different geography, grade, or market stage. Constituent drift can therefore look like inflation.
Commercial interpretation should separate composition effects from price effects and monitor whether the index still explains the user's actual purchase basket.
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 procurement and market-intelligence teams that need a potato dealer price index to measure movement across a defined panel of dealers and products. MassGain helps users understand the index construction: which dealers participate, which regions and potato types are represented, how observations are weighted, whether prices are bids or trades, and how missing or revised data are treated.
Panel composition can move an index independently of the underlying market. A shift toward one geography, package, grade, or dealer type may create an apparent price change that does not match the buyer’s exposure. MassGain can compare the dealer index with regional benchmarks and internal purchase prices, test historical basis, and document changes in constituents, weights, update cadence, and methodology. Procurement can determine whether the index is suitable for a contract or only for directional monitoring.
MassGain does not certify the index or claim that dealer observations cover all potato commerce. It provides the transparency and governance needed to use the measure responsibly. Teams can identify concentration, understand breaks in continuity, and decide when reweighting, a complementary benchmark, or a contract transition rule is required.
Use Case
A distributor uses a dealer index in annual customer resets. MassGain finds the panel has shifted toward western fresh-market dealers while the distributor buys processing-oriented product in central regions. The company reweights the index and adds a minimum-coverage rule before the next reset.
FAQs
What does a potato dealer price index measure?
It measures price movement across a defined dealer panel, product basket, and methodology.
Why does panel composition matter?
Changes in dealers, regions, or product mix can move the index independently of the underlying market.
How does MassGain govern the index?
It tracks constituents, weights, coverage, methodology, revisions, and basis to the user’s purchases.
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Data and Methodology
Professional market-data standards
MassGain is building transparent public market infrastructure. Each live metric will identify its date, unit, coverage, methodology, and source basis.
Data provenance
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.
Not transactional pricing
MassGain figures are informational reference values and do not constitute executable bids, offers, settlements, or guarantees that a transaction can occur at the displayed value.
No individualized advice
Content and data are provided for informational and analytical purposes and do not constitute financial, investment, legal, trading, or individualized procurement advice.
Independent publication
Certain observations may be derived from USDA reports. MassGain is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USDA.
Commercial use and licensing
Public display does not grant rights to reproduce, redistribute, republish, or incorporate MassGain indices or references into commercial products or contracts without authorization.