Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Farm Debt Service Coverage
Potato farm debt service coverage measures repayment capacity by comparing defined cash available with scheduled debt obligations. Lenders can stress yield, price, contracts, inventory, costs, and payment timing while distinguishing annual coverage from seasonal liquidity.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato farm-debt-service-coverage data compares defined cash available for principal and interest with scheduled debt obligations, while linking the calculation to acreage, yield, prices, contracts, inventory, costs, and payment timing. The market object is the farm's repayment capacity over the relevant crop and financing period.
Use the data to stress low-yield, low-price, delayed-payment, or storage scenarios and to distinguish annual coverage from seasonal liquidity. Keep the lender's definition of cash available and debt service explicit so ratios remain reproducible.
Data Module
Potato Farm Debt Service Coverage
Market objectfarm repayment capacity
Primary measurecash available / debt service
Key dimensionsfarm, crop year, debt schedule, cash flow
Commercial usecredit and repayment analysis
Risk contextyield, price, contracts, payment timing
Compare withseasonal liquidity and collateral
Analysis
Why this matters
A farm can show adequate annual debt-service coverage while facing a severe cash-timing gap before processor settlement or storage sales arrive. Annual ratio and liquidity are therefore different signals.
Commercial interpretation should map debt dates against crop cash flows and stress quality or payment delays, not rely on the year-end ratio alone.
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
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Content
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2
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- Understand uncertainty
- Anticipate risk
- Act earlier
3
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MassGain Potato Index: independent physical-pricing intelligence and trend analysis.
- Price discovery
- Regional trends
- Procurement planning
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Overview
Who is this for?
This page is for commodity-finance and risk teams that need to assess potato farm debt service coverage. Debt service coverage compares cash available for principal and interest with scheduled debt obligations, helping lenders and borrowers judge repayment capacity under seasonal crop conditions. MassGain adds potato-specific price, yield, contract, inventory, and cost evidence to the analysis.
The suite can organize operating cash flow, farm income, required debt payments, owner withdrawals, crop insurance, inventory, receivables, and capital expenditures under the lender’s stated definition. It connects these items with acreage, marketable yield, contract coverage, regional prices, input budgets, storage, and payment timing. Lenders can stress a poor-yield or low-price year. Growers can identify when short-term liquidity differs from annual coverage. Risk teams can distinguish temporary crop timing from structural leverage.
Coverage ratios depend on accounting definition and may not capture refinancing or collateral liquidity. MassGain does not make credit decisions or provide lending advice. It supplies a transparent operating and market framework that helps users reproduce the calculation, understand its drivers, and test whether the borrower can service debt across realistic potato-market scenarios.
Use Case
A lender reviews a storage grower whose annual coverage appears adequate. MassGain shows most cash arrives after a large winter debt payment and tests delayed processor settlement plus lower quality. The annual ratio remains positive, but the timing gap requires a seasonal repayment adjustment.
FAQs
How is farm debt service coverage measured?
Divide defined cash available for debt service by scheduled principal and interest for the same period.
Why does seasonality matter?
Crop expenses, harvest, storage, sales, and processor payments occur at different times during the year.
How does MassGain stress coverage?
It connects debt obligations with yield, price, contracts, inventory, receivables, costs, and payment timing.
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Data and Methodology
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