Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Grower Purchase Price Survey
A potato grower purchase price survey collects buyer-paid grower transactions with region, product, quality, volume, channel, date, unit, and delivery terms preserved. Separating contract from spot business makes the resulting benchmark more representative and auditable.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato grower purchase price survey collects structured evidence about the prices buyers pay growers for defined potato products. Useful survey fields include region, crop use, variety, quality, quantity, date, contract status, unit, loading basis, and delivery period so unlike transactions are not averaged together.
Use the survey by separating contract from spot business, documenting sample coverage, and weighting observations according to representative volume rather than simply taking an unqualified mean. Historical comparisons can then show whether price movement is broad across buyers or driven by a small number of urgent purchases.
Data Module
Grower purchase survey context
Regionproducing market represented
Productvariety, quality, and end use
Channelcontract versus spot purchase
Volumequantity behind each observation
Termsunit, loading, and delivery basis
Decision usegrower negotiation and procurement benchmark
Analysis
Why this matters
Survey quality depends more on structure than sample count. A small urgent spot purchase at a high price should not carry the same market weight as recurring contracted volume, even though both are genuine transactions.
The main analytical risks are mix shift and confidentiality-driven thinness. Preserving market channel, volume, timing, and product basis helps prevent the published average from moving merely because the composition of respondents changed.
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 growers, processors, grower associations, lenders, and market analysts that need structured evidence about the prices buyers pay for potatoes. A potato grower purchase price survey can collect transaction or purchase information by region, crop use, variety, quality, contract status, volume, delivery period, loading basis, and unit. MassGain’s potato data suite helps standardize those submissions and compare them with broader physical-market conditions.
Survey design matters because an average can be misleading when unlike contracts and spot purchases are combined. MassGain helps separate buyer types, market channels, regions, and timing, identify outliers, preserve contributor confidentiality, and show coverage and sample limitations. Historical comparisons can reveal whether a movement is broad across purchasers or driven by a small number of urgent transactions.
Growers can use the evidence in contract discussions, processors to benchmark procurement, and lenders to test revenue assumptions. MassGain does not verify every private submission or guarantee complete market coverage. It provides a governed framework for collecting, normalizing, and interpreting purchase prices so the survey becomes an auditable market reference rather than a collection of anecdotes.
Use Case
A grower association collects quarterly purchase data from processors in three regions. MassGain standardizes units, separates contract and free-buy transactions, and flags a high-price outlier tied to immediate delivery. The published benchmark reflects the representative distribution while retaining the outlier as contextual evidence rather than allowing it to reset the whole market.
FAQs
What should a grower purchase price survey collect?
Region, product, variety, quality, volume, date, contract status, unit, and delivery basis are core fields.
Why separate contract and spot purchases?
They reflect different timing, flexibility, availability, and commercial obligations.
How does MassGain improve survey quality?
It standardizes submissions, documents coverage, manages outliers, and preserves market-channel context.
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Data and Methodology
Professional market-data standards
MassGain is building transparent public market infrastructure. Each live metric will identify its date, unit, coverage, methodology, and source basis.
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.
Commercial use and licensing
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