Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Domestic Movement Restrictions
Potato domestic movement restrictions map which lots can move across regulated states, provinces, counties, or production zones. Procurement and logistics teams can compare compliant routes, treatments, and alternate origins while quantifying delay or replacement risk.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato domestic-movement-restriction data maps official controls on movement between states, provinces, counties, production zones, or regulated facilities because of pests, diseases, soil, seed status, quarantine, or emergency orders. The market object is route eligibility by product form, origin, destination, effective date, permit, treatment, and exemption.
Use the data to determine which contracted potatoes remain movable, compare compliant routes or alternate origins, and quantify delay, treatment, diversion, and replacement cost. Keep seed, fresh, processing, waste, equipment, and soil-bearing movements distinct.
Data Module
Potato Domestic Movement Restrictions
Market objectregulated domestic movement lane
Primary fieldsorigin, destination, product, rule
Key dimensionseffective date, permit, treatment, exemption
Commercial uselogistics and sourcing continuity
Scopeseed, fresh, processing, equipment, soil
Compare withalternate routes and replacement supply
Analysis
Why this matters
A regional restriction can create destination scarcity while leaving potatoes physically abundant inside the regulated area. Availability is therefore determined by legal and operational movability, not production alone.
Commercial interpretation should identify the exact product and boundary in scope. Targeted route or treatment solutions can preserve much of the supply without repricing an entire region.
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.
October 26, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Flat headline prices mask a regional squeeze on carton russets
MassGain’s physical indicators are unchanged, but USDA shipping‑point reports and terminal quotes show premiums for 40–70s russets. UCUI remains NORMAL even as European yields and UK storage quality draw attention.
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
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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?
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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 procurement, logistics, growers, processors, and compliance teams that need to manage domestic potato movement restrictions. Restrictions may limit transport between states, provinces, counties, production zones, or regulated facilities because of pests, diseases, soil, seed status, quarantine, or emergency orders. MassGain helps users map which products, origins, routes, and destinations are affected.
The suite can organize regulated areas, commodity definitions, effective dates, permits, certificates, treatments, cleaning requirements, approved routes, exemptions, and enforcement status. Procurement can identify whether contracted supply remains movable. Logistics can avoid blocked lanes and schedule inspections or treatments. Growers can understand which markets remain accessible. Finance can quantify delay, diversion, treatment, and replacement costs.
Restrictions can change quickly and may apply differently to seed, fresh, processing, waste, equipment, or soil-bearing loads. MassGain does not provide legal advice or authorize movement. It provides the current evidence and supply-chain framework needed to prevent noncompliant shipments, test alternate origins or destinations, and understand how regulatory boundaries affect physical availability and regional potato prices.
Use Case
A processor’s contracted potatoes sit inside a newly regulated pest zone. MassGain maps the order, product exemptions, cleaning requirements, permits, inspection capacity, alternate routes, and substitute suppliers. Procurement preserves compliant volume while replacing only the tonnes that cannot move in time.
FAQs
What can domestic potato movement restrictions cover?
They may cover potatoes, seed, soil, equipment, containers, waste, routes, origins, destinations, and facilities.
Why must product form be defined?
Seed, fresh, processed, washed, and waste potatoes may face different movement conditions.
How does MassGain support continuity?
It links restrictions with contracts, inventory, routes, permits, treatments, deadlines, and alternate supply.
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Data and Methodology
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