Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Field Mapping Platform
A potato field mapping platform links field boundaries with acreage, variety, planting, irrigation, crop stage, growers, contracts, and harvest timing. Overlaying weather and market data helps processors and lenders see which plants or exposures depend on the same geography.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato field mapping platform organizes production geographically by field and links location to operational attributes such as acreage, variety, planting date, irrigation, crop stage, grower, expected yield, harvest window, storage destination, and processing contract. The map becomes more useful when external weather, regional crop, price, and supply signals are layered onto those records.
Use the platform to aggregate field exposure by plant, delivery period, water district, variety, or risk factor. That makes localized weather or infrastructure events commercially interpretable and helps identify which plants, contracts, lenders, or alternate regions are actually affected.
Data Module
Field mapping context
Boundariesfield and acreage geography
Crop attributesvariety, planting, and growth stage
Waterirrigation source and regional exposure
Commercial linkgrower, contract, plant, and harvest window
Market overlayprice, crop, weather, and availability
Decision usemonitoring, sourcing, and concentration analysis
Analysis
Why this matters
Geospatial granularity matters because national or even regional crop statistics can hide concentrated risk. Several nominally independent growers can share the same irrigation district, weather event, storage network, or processor destination.
A field map turns that hidden correlation into an operational view. The key is not simply locating acres, but tracing how a localized event could transmit through harvest timing, plant intake, contract coverage, and alternate supply.
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 10, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Potato prices quiet at $30/cwt as regional harvest damage buzzes beneath the surface
Market indicators are stable, but reporting from Europe and select growing areas shows real, localized crop stress — a reminder that steady headline prices can mask uneven physical risk.
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, processors, agricultural lenders, insurers, agronomists, and supply-chain teams that need a geographic operating view of potato production. A potato field mapping platform can organize field boundaries, planted variety, acreage, planting date, irrigation, crop stage, grower, contract destination, expected yield, harvest window, and proximity to storage or processing facilities. MassGain’s potato data suite adds regional crop, price, availability, and market-risk context around those internal field records.
The platform becomes especially valuable when field-level exposure must be translated into commercial decisions. A weather event may affect only part of a sourcing basin, while several apparently separate suppliers may depend on fields within the same water district or freight corridor. MassGain helps teams aggregate field information by plant, variety, delivery period, and risk factor and compare it with alternate supply.
Growers can use the map for crop and harvest coordination, processors for contracted-supply monitoring, and lenders or insurers for concentration analysis. MassGain does not replace field scouting, GIS accuracy, agronomy, or private farm-management systems. It provides the external market-intelligence layer needed to connect mapped production with regional prices, supply forecasts, plant coverage, and the practical consequences of a localized crop event.
Use Case
A processor maps contracted fields by variety and delivery month. A heat event affects one irrigation district that supplies a high-volume plant, while another region remains normal. MassGain overlays regional crop and availability signals, allowing procurement to reserve a limited backup tranche and prioritize scouting only where the field concentration creates material plant exposure.
FAQs
What can a potato field mapping platform contain?
Field boundaries, acreage, variety, planting, irrigation, crop stage, grower, contract, and harvest timing can be mapped.
Why connect fields to processing plants?
The link shows which operational facilities depend on each crop region, variety, and delivery window.
How does MassGain complement field mapping?
It adds regional market, price, availability, crop, and alternate-supply context.
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Data and Methodology
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Data provenance
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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.
Not transactional pricing
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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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