Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Harvest Delivery Profile
A potato harvest delivery profile shows how seasonal crop volume is expected to reach plants or storage through time. MassGain combines acreage, maturity, yield, weather, harvest capacity, trucks, contracts, and receiving limits so teams can anticipate peaks, gaps, and transition risk rather than relying on the final tonnage total.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato harvest-delivery profile estimates how crop volume will be distributed across daily or weekly harvest and delivery periods by field, region, variety, destination, and storage path. The market object is the shape of physical movement through harvest rather than the seasonal tonnage total.
Use the data to combine acreage, maturity, yield, field location, harvest capacity, weather, processor contracts, storage space, trucks, and receiving limits. Update the profile as actual loads arrive and crop progress changes.
Data Module
Potato Harvest Delivery Profile
Market objectharvest-period delivery distribution
Primary measuresvolume by date and destination
Key dimensionsfield, region, variety, route
Commercial useharvest, storage, and intake planning
Constraintsmaturity, weather, trucks, receiving
Compare withseasonal total and actual loads
Analysis
Why this matters
Adequate seasonal supply can still create severe operational pressure when a large share arrives in a short weather window. Delivery concentration affects queues, storage, labor, quality, and temporary regional basis.
Commercial interpretation should focus on the profile's peaks and gaps. Timing often creates the first commercial consequence before final crop volume changes.
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
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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
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Overview
Who is this for?
This page is for growers and producers, processor planners, harvest managers, and market analysts that need a potato harvest delivery profile. The profile describes how expected crop volume will reach buyers or storage over time, showing the shape of daily or weekly deliveries rather than only the final seasonal total.
MassGain builds the profile from planted acres, maturity, expected yield, variety, field location, harvest capacity, weather, processor contracts, storage availability, trucking, and plant receiving limits. Growers can plan crews and equipment. Processors can anticipate peak intake, specification transitions, and gaps. Lenders can model harvest cash needs and settlement timing. Analysts can distinguish a large crop delivered gradually from a smaller crop bunched into a short weather window.
The profile is revised as fields mature and actual loads arrive. MassGain does not guarantee harvest timing or treat all projected tonnes as marketable. It provides a transparent range with assumptions and confidence and separates field-to-factory, field-to-storage, and later storage-release flows. This helps users protect quality, receiving capacity, labor, and contract performance during the most operationally concentrated part of the potato year.
Use Case
A processor expects adequate seasonal tonnage but MassGain’s delivery profile shows 38% could arrive in a ten-day window because of synchronized maturity and forecast rain. The plant adds receiving shifts, secures temporary storage, and resequences production before queues develop.
FAQs
What is a harvest delivery profile?
It is the expected distribution of harvested potato volume across dates, destinations, and storage paths.
Why is the shape more useful than the total?
Bunched deliveries can overwhelm crews, transport, receiving, storage, and processing despite adequate seasonal volume.
How does MassGain update the profile?
It incorporates maturity, weather, actual loads, yields, capacity, contracts, and revised field status.
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Data and Methodology
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