Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Futures Price
Potato futures price is the quoted value of a specific future contract with defined maturity, reference market, and settlement rules. MassGain places the screen price beside cash benchmarks, crop fundamentals, curve structure, liquidity, and basis so finance teams do not apply a futures move mechanically to unrelated physical exposure.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato futures price is the quoted value of a specific futures contract with a defined maturity, reference market, contract size, and settlement methodology. It is a forward financial-market reference, not the delivered price of potatoes to every plant.
MassGain helps finance and risk teams compare the futures quote with relevant regional cash benchmarks, crop fundamentals, curve structure, liquidity, and historical basis. Users should account for geography, variety, quality, contract timing, currency, freight, and local physical exposure before using the futures move in a budget or hedge review.
Data Module
Potato futures price context
Contractreference market, maturity, and settlement rules
Curve positionfront or deferred contract
Liquiditydepth and reliability of price discovery
Physical basisdifference versus relevant cash market
Decision usemark, forecast, hedge, and credit interpretation
Analysis
Why this matters
A large futures move can be informative without implying the same change in contracted physical cost. If the screen market represents a tight free-buy region while a processor is covered elsewhere, only the uncovered or correlated exposure may be affected. Basis analysis prevents a financial-market signal from being applied mechanically to unrelated potatoes.
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 teams, processors, traders, lenders, and risk managers that need to understand a potato futures price before using it in a budget, hedge review, valuation, or credit decision. A futures price represents the market value of a defined contract for a future settlement period; it is not a universal quote for potatoes delivered to every plant or buyer. MassGain’s potato data suite places that price beside the contract specification, settlement methodology, maturity, historical curve, regional cash benchmarks, crop fundamentals, and basis relationships.
The physical comparison is critical. A futures contract may reflect processing potatoes in a particular reference market, while the user’s exposure involves another country, variety, quality standard, currency, freight lane, or contract window. MassGain helps identify those mismatches and shows whether a move in the futures price is being confirmed by acreage, weather, yield, storage, processing demand, and observable cash-market behavior. Users can therefore distinguish a broadly informative signal from a price move driven by thin liquidity, short-term positioning, or contract-specific conditions.
This supports mark-to-market reviews, forecasts, hedge-effectiveness analysis, lending stress tests, and supplier negotiations. MassGain does not provide investment advice or guarantee that a physical price will converge with the listed contract. It supplies the market definitions and physical evidence needed to interpret the screen price responsibly, estimate basis risk, and avoid applying a futures move mechanically to an unrelated potato exposure.
Use Case
A processor’s finance team sees the front potato futures contract jump 12% and considers raising its raw-material budget by the same amount. MassGain shows that the contract references a tight free-buy processing market, while most of the company’s needs are covered under regional grower contracts with a later reset. Finance increases the uncovered-volume assumption, leaves contracted volume unchanged, and tracks the cash-futures basis before revising the full-year standard cost.
FAQs
What does a potato futures price represent?
It represents the market value of a specific futures contract with defined maturity, reference market, settlement rules, and contract size.
Why is a futures price not the same as a delivered potato price?
Physical costs also depend on region, variety, quality, contract timing, currency, freight, storage, and local basis.
How can MassGain help interpret a futures-price move?
It compares the contract with cash benchmarks, crop fundamentals, curve structure, liquidity, and the user’s actual physical exposure.
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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
MassGain figures are informational reference values and do not constitute executable bids, offers, settlements, or guarantees that a transaction can occur at the displayed value.
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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