Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Granules Supply Forecast
Potato granules supply forecast data estimates future specification-ready availability by grade, plant, and region. MassGain connects raw-potato quality, recovery, granulation and drying capacity, energy, uptime, inventory, contracts, and trade so grade-level concentration is visible before it becomes a production risk.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato-granules-supply-forecast data estimates future availability by grade, plant, region, and period from raw-potato quality, process recovery, granulation and drying capacity, energy, plant uptime, inventories, contracts, and trade. The market object is specification-ready granule supply by particle size, density, additives, and functional requirement.
Use the data to identify grade-level concentration and to compare qualified alternate plants before a maintenance or crop problem becomes a production gap. Keep standard and specialty granules separate when functionality or customer approval limits substitution.
Data Module
Potato Granules Supply Forecast
Market objectforecast qualified granule supply
Primary measuresoutput, inventory, available capacity
Key dimensionsgrade, plant, region, period
Commercial useprocurement and continuity planning
Supply driverscrop, recovery, drying, energy, uptime
Compare withqualified alternatives and contracts
Analysis
Why this matters
The granules market can appear balanced while one fine-particle or functional grade is concentrated in a single plant. Total dehydrated volume therefore overstates substitution.
Commercial interpretation should map each required grade to qualified capacity and inventory. A plant-specific outage warrants targeted protection, not a category-wide scarcity assumption.
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 16, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Potato market steady for now; Russia’s smaller crop is the salient risk
Spot prices are flat and USDA terminal reports read ‘market steady,’ but a renewed forecast for a smaller Russian harvest and recent regional harvest stress leave seasonal import timing and storage losses as the key uncertainty.
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 potato-granule producers, food processors, procurement teams, and planners that need a potato granules supply forecast. Supply depends on suitable potato intake, granulation and drying capacity, process recovery, energy, plant reliability, inventories, customer specifications, and trade. A broad dehydrated-potato total may not reveal availability of a required particle size, density, additive profile, or functional grade.
MassGain organizes plants, grades, campaigns, practical capacity, raw coverage, solids, yields, maintenance, inventory, imports, exports, and committed volume. Producers can plan campaigns and identify bottlenecks. Procurement can determine whether qualified alternates can cover a gap. Finance can model inventory, currency, freight, and working capital. Market intelligence can connect plant outages and regional crop quality with future grade-level availability.
MassGain does not guarantee production or ingredient interchangeability. It provides a transparent, source-dated forecast with base, high, and low cases, preserving the assumptions behind raw-potato supply, recovery, energy, plant uptime, and trade. Users can see whether a risk is market-wide or limited to one plant or grade and act before long lead times turn a forecast gap into a production interruption.
Use Case
A snack manufacturer is warned of a granule shortage. MassGain shows standard grades remain plentiful, but one fine-particle grade is exposed to a single plant’s maintenance shutdown. Procurement reserves that grade for sensitive products and qualifies a standard grade for tolerant recipes.
FAQs
What drives potato granules supply?
Raw-potato quality, process recovery, dryer and granulation capacity, energy, uptime, inventory, contracts, and trade drive it.
Why forecast by grade?
Particle size, density, additives, functionality, approvals, and plant capability can restrict substitution.
How does MassGain identify concentration?
It maps each required grade to plants, capacity, raw regions, inventories, contracts, and alternate sources.
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Data and Methodology
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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.
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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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