Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Foodservice Inventory Levels
Potato foodservice inventory levels tracks usable stock for restaurant and institutional customers by SKU, branch, commitments, shelf life, lead time, and safety stock. Linking those positions with processor capacity, regional supply, freight, and demand reveals specification-level exposure hidden by comfortable network totals.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato foodservice inventory levels track usable stock held for restaurant and institutional customers across fries, hash browns, fresh potatoes, wedges, and other formats. Useful data includes SKU, branch, commitments, shelf life, supplier lead time, safety stock, and replacement conditions.
Use the data by linking branch-level inventory with processor capacity, regional potato supply, freight, and customer demand. This identifies specification-level exposure that can be hidden by a comfortable total network inventory number.
Data Module
Foodservice inventory context
SKUproduct and specification
Locationbranch or distribution center
Available stockfree versus committed cases
Shelf lifeusable inventory horizon
Supplier lead timereplenishment timing
Decision usesafety stock, transfer, and reorder planning
Analysis
Why this matters
Systemwide inventory can look healthy while a critical SKU is exposed in one region. Foodservice service risk is therefore driven by the intersection of product, location, and lead time rather than total cases alone.
The best planning response is targeted. Moving or replenishing only the constrained branch protects fill rate without creating a costly network-wide inventory build.
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 foodservice distributors, restaurant suppliers, procurement teams, and branch managers that need visibility into potato inventory held for foodservice customers. Foodservice potato inventory levels reflect more than total cases on hand. The usable position depends on product specification, pack size, remaining shelf life, customer commitments, distribution location, supplier lead time, and replacement-market conditions. MassGain connects those internal inventory dimensions with regional potato prices, processing availability, crop timing, and freight.
The page supports service-level planning across fries, hash browns, fresh potatoes, wedges, and other foodservice formats. A network can appear well stocked while one critical SKU or branch is vulnerable, or it may carry excessive inventory after promotional demand weakens. MassGain helps teams distinguish systemwide abundance from specification-level exposure and decide where to transfer stock, accelerate replenishment, protect safety inventory, or reduce future orders. The result is a more precise inventory view that balances customer fill rate, working capital, freshness, and replacement-cost risk.
Use Case
A foodservice distributor appears to have six weeks of frozen-fry inventory, but MassGain shows most stock is concentrated in western warehouses while two eastern branches depend on a tightening supplier plant. Operations transfers selected cases, procurement advances the next order, and the company avoids both a restaurant stockout and a network-wide inventory build.
FAQs
What should foodservice potato inventory levels track?
They should track SKU, branch, commitments, shelf life, supplier lead time, safety stock, and replacement conditions.
Why can total inventory hide service risk?
Stock may be in the wrong location, package, specification, or customer allocation to cover the exposed demand.
How does MassGain support foodservice inventory planning?
It connects branch and SKU positions with regional supply, processor capacity, prices, crop timing, and freight.
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Data and Methodology
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