Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Foodservice Price Index
A potato foodservice price index measures price movement across a defined basket of finished potato products while preserving supplier, plant, region, pack, contract period, and weights. MassGain adds the matched upstream potato benchmarks so restaurant teams can separate raw-material movement from processing, oil, packaging, freight, service, and timing.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato foodservice price index tracks price movement across a defined basket of finished potato products such as fries, hash browns, wedges, or prepared potatoes. The index should preserve product, supplier, plant, region, pack format, contract period, delivery basis, and basket weights so movement reflects price rather than changing mix.
MassGain supplies the upstream physical-potato context needed to interpret the finished index. Restaurant procurement and finance can compare foodservice price movement with raw-potato markets while separately accounting for processing, oil, packaging, labor, freight, service, and contract timing.
Data Module
Foodservice price-index context
Basketdefined potato products and pack formats
Weightscategory mix represented in the index
Supplier and plantproduction source behind each item
Potato benchmarkmatched regional raw-material reference
Contract timingeffective dates and reset cadence
Decision useinflation, budget, and supplier review
Analysis
Why this matters
Foodservice prices can diverge from raw-potato prices because the finished product contains several cost layers and contracts reset on different schedules. A broad category increase may also be driven by one product or region rather than the buyer's actual mix.
Constituent transparency is therefore critical. MassGain can show whether index movement is broad, concentrated, or caused by basket changes. Buyers can then apply the relevant portions to their own category instead of accepting an undifferentiated foodservice inflation figure.
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 is for QSR, restaurant, institutional, distributor, and finance teams that need a consistent measure of foodservice potato price movement. A potato foodservice price index tracks a defined basket of finished products such as fries, hash browns, wedges, or prepared potatoes across suppliers, regions, pack formats, and contract periods. MassGain’s potato data suite provides the underlying physical-potato context needed to interpret the index rather than treating finished-product movement as pure commodity inflation.
Foodservice prices include raw potatoes, processing yield, oil, labor, energy, packaging, storage, freight, service, and commercial terms. MassGain helps users separate those drivers, map each product to the relevant supplying plant and sourcing region, and examine whether price changes are broad or concentrated in a particular product or contract window. Transparent weights and constituent definitions make the index more useful for budgets and supplier reviews.
The index can support inflation reporting, menu-margin planning, contract escalators, and market-adjusted procurement performance. MassGain does not expose private transactions or claim one index represents every buyer. It provides a governed framework for constructing, validating, and applying a foodservice measure that matches the organization’s actual potato-category mix.
Use Case
A restaurant group’s supplier cites a broad 7% foodservice potato increase. MassGain’s constituent view shows most of the movement came from coated fries in one region, while the group’s hash-brown and standard-fry contracts remained closer to 3%. Procurement applies product- and plant-specific assumptions, challenges the blanket increase, and gives finance a weighted category forecast.
FAQs
What does a potato foodservice price index track?
It tracks price movement across a defined basket of finished potato products, suppliers, regions, and periods.
Why can it differ from raw potato prices?
Processing, oil, packaging, labor, freight, service, and contract timing also influence finished-product prices.
How does MassGain improve the index?
It adds matched potato-market benchmarks, constituent transparency, historical context, and plant-level sourcing exposure.
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