Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Domestic Market Price Index
A potato domestic market price index measures price movement across a stated basket of locally sold potato products. Procurement and finance teams can inspect constituents, weights, stages, and regions before deciding whether the aggregate is relevant to a supplier, plant, or contract.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato domestic market price index tracks price movement for a defined basket of products sold within the home market. The object should identify regions, fresh or processed channels, market stage, weights, base period, contract exposure, and revision policy.
Use the index to understand broad domestic direction and then inspect constituents before applying it to a supplier, plant, or contract. Fresh, processing, seed, wholesale, and finished potato markets can diverge materially even within the same country.
Data Module
Potato Domestic Market Price Index
ObjectDomestic potato price-change benchmark
DimensionsProduct, region, channel, market stage
MethodBasket, weights, base period, revisions
Commercial useBenchmarking, contracts, inflation
ComparisonRegional physical price constituents
WatchpointAggregate movement may be mix-driven
Analysis
Why this matters
The headline index matters as a broad signal, but commercial exposure lives in its constituents. A fresh-retail shortage can lift a national index while contracted processing potatoes remain stable.
The analytical task is to determine whether the index basket resembles the buyer's actual market. If not, the headline is context rather than a defensible pass-through mechanism.
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
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Overview
Who is this for?
This page is for processors, procurement teams, economists, finance leaders, and market analysts that need a consistent measure of potato price movement within the domestic market. A potato domestic market price index tracks a defined basket of locally sold potato products across time. MassGain helps users understand the covered products, regions, market stage, weighting, base period, contract channels, and revision policy before applying the index.
Domestic indices can combine markets that behave differently, including fresh, processing, seed, wholesale, or finished products. A change in the headline may reflect broad inflation, a regional shortage, shifting weights, or a richer product mix. MassGain exposes constituent movement and compares the index with physical-market prices, production, inventories, and imports. Procurement teams can select the relevant component for supplier reviews, finance can evaluate domestic selling-price or input assumptions, processors can compare plant exposure, and analysts can study price transmission. The result is a transparent domestic reference that indicates direction without implying that every buyer, seller, region, and potato specification experienced the same change. Users can identify what drove the movement and decide whether the aggregate index is suitable for a contract, budget, or market report.
Use Case
A supplier cites a national domestic potato index to justify an increase. MassGain shows the index rise was driven by fresh retail packs, while the buyer’s processing-potato region remained stable, so procurement rejects the unmatched benchmark and uses a more relevant constituent.
FAQs
What does a domestic potato price index track?
It tracks price movement for a defined basket of potato products sold within the domestic market.
Can one domestic index represent every contract?
No. Product, region, market stage, timing, and commercial terms may differ.
Why inspect index weights?
Weights determine which products and regions have the greatest influence on the headline result.
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Data and Methodology
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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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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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