Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Farm Value Per Acre
Potato farm value per acre measures producer-stage crop value generated by a defined acre, combining marketable yield with realized value. Growers can compare fields and regions while separating productivity, grade, contract, and market-channel effects from production costs.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato farm-value-per-acre data measures producer-stage value generated by a defined acre of potato production, combining marketable yield with realized value. The market object is the field or enterprise by variety, crop use, crop year, quality, and market channel.
Use the data to separate acreage, yield, grade, contract, spot price, and cull effects. Compare fields on the same planted or harvested-acre basis and keep revenue distinct from profit because production, storage, land, and financing costs remain.
Data Module
Potato Farm Value per Acre
Market objectproducer revenue value per acre
Primary measuresmarketable yield and realized value
Key dimensionsfield, variety, crop use, year
Commercial userevenue benchmarking
Revenue contextgrade, contracts, market channel
Compare withproduction costs and margin
Analysis
Why this matters
A high-yield field can produce lower farm value per acre when grade, quality, or market channel weakens realized price. Yield and revenue can therefore move in opposite directions.
Commercial interpretation should identify whether stronger value comes from productivity, quality, contracts, or market scarcity rather than treating the metric as a pure agronomic score.
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 growers and producer groups that need to compare potato farm value per acre across fields, regions, varieties, and crop years. Farm value per acre combines marketable yield with the price received at the producer stage, giving a revenue-oriented measure of how effectively planted land converts into commercial value. MassGain connects that measure with potato prices, quality, crop use, contracts, and field-level production conditions.
The suite can compare planted and harvested acres, saleable yield, grade mix, contract and spot prices, culls, storage timing, and market channel. Growers can distinguish a high-yield field with weak price realization from a lower-yield field producing premium quality. Producer organizations can benchmark regional performance. Lenders can test revenue sensitivity by crop scenario. Procurement teams can understand which growing areas remain economically sustainable enough to support future supply.
Farm value per acre is not profit because seed, fertilizer, labor, machinery, land, storage, and financing costs remain. MassGain does not provide agronomic or accounting advice. It supplies a transparent market framework that helps users separate acreage, yield, quality, and price effects, compare performance consistently, and identify where stronger commercial outcomes come from production, market access, or product mix.
Use Case
A grower compares two 160-acre potato blocks. One produces more tonnes, but the other achieves better grade, lower culls, and a stronger processor contract. MassGain calculates farm value per acre for each block and shows the second field creates more revenue despite lower gross yield, guiding next season’s variety and contract allocation.
FAQs
How is potato farm value per acre calculated?
Divide the farm-level value of marketable potato output by the relevant planted or harvested acres.
Why can high yield produce lower farm value?
Weak grade, quality discounts, culls, market channel, and low realized prices can offset additional tonnes.
How does MassGain explain the result?
It separates acreage, yield, quality, product mix, contract, spot price, and market-channel effects.
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Data and Methodology
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Independent publication
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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