Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Futures Chart
A potato futures chart visualizes forward contract prices, maturities, spreads, and liquidity where a relevant series exists. MassGain pairs the chart with regional cash markets and basis so users can distinguish broad repricing from contract-specific noise, rollover, or thin trading.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato futures chart visualizes standardized potato contract prices across maturities and time, including curve shape, calendar spreads, expiry behavior, and liquidity where available. Contract identity and rollover rules should remain explicit so discontinuous maturities are not mistaken for one continuous physical price.
MassGain can pair the chart with regional cash markets, crop transitions, storage conditions, and historical basis. Risk and finance teams can use the visual to distinguish broad forward repricing from noise concentrated in a single thin contract.
Data Module
Potato futures-chart context
Maturitycontract month or crop period
Curvenearby and deferred price structure
Spreadsdifferences between contract months
Liquiditytrading depth and reliability
Cash basismatched physical-market comparison
Decision useforward signal and risk review
Analysis
Why this matters
A dramatic chart move can be misleading when it occurs in one illiquid maturity near rollover. A smaller but broad shift across several contracts that is confirmed by cash markets often carries stronger information.
MassGain helps interpret the chart through physical confirmation. When futures and regional cash diverge, the basis becomes a useful signal in its own right and may reflect local supply, specification, timing, or liquidity rather than an immediate change in delivered potato cost.
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 agricultural finance, processor risk, treasury, lender, and market-analysis teams that need a visual representation of potato futures prices across maturities and time. A potato futures chart can show curve shape, nearby and deferred contracts, calendar spreads, volatility, expiry behavior, and liquidity indicators where available. MassGain’s potato data suite adds the regional cash-market and crop context needed to interpret those movements rather than treating every line change as evidence of a comparable shift in delivered potato cost.
The chart is most valuable when it separates broad repricing from contract-specific noise. A move across several maturities confirmed by regional spot and forward markets carries a different signal from a spike in one thin contract near rollover. MassGain helps users overlay or compare physical benchmarks, crop transitions, storage conditions, processing demand, and historical basis so the visual becomes an analytical tool rather than a decorative price series.
The output supports risk committees, hedge reviews, procurement forecasts, and lender monitoring. MassGain does not verify exchange liquidity or provide trading advice. It supplies the physical definitions, provenance, and market context required to explain what changed, assess whether the futures move is commercially relevant, and identify where basis or liquidity limits confidence.
Use Case
A processor’s board sees a sharp rise in a deferred potato contract and asks finance to raise the annual raw-material forecast. The MassGain futures chart shows the move is isolated to a thin maturity approaching rollover, while nearby contracts and physical processing-potato benchmarks remain stable. Finance widens the upside scenario but leaves the base budget unchanged, then sets a trigger to revisit the assumption if cash markets and the broader curve confirm the move.
FAQs
What should a potato futures chart display?
Useful views include contract maturities, curve shape, spreads, expiry, volatility, liquidity, and matched physical-market basis.
Why can one futures contract move independently?
Thin trading, rollover, positioning, expiry, and contract-specific conditions can create isolated price changes.
What does MassGain add to the chart?
It connects futures movement with cash benchmarks, crop conditions, storage, processing demand, and historical basis.
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Data and Methodology
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Data provenance
MassGain uses public, licensed, contributed, and independently derived physical-market information. Source availability and publication schedules vary.
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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No individualized advice
Content and data are provided for informational and analytical purposes and do not constitute financial, investment, legal, trading, or individualized procurement advice.
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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