Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Harvest Progress
Potato harvest progress measures how much crop has been lifted and how quickly usable potatoes are moving into storage, plants, packing sheds, or markets. MassGain links the pace with weather, quality, storage capacity, freight, plant intake, and regional prices to identify delayed or compressed supply windows.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato Harvest Progress tracks the share of crop lifted and the rate at which potatoes are moving into storage, processing plants, packing sheds, or fresh markets. The object should preserve region, variety or sector, weather, field condition, quality, and reporting date.
Use the data with plant intake, storage capacity, freight, prices, and historical harvest pace to identify compressed windows or delayed commercial availability. Total production can remain adequate while wet fields or logistics temporarily restrict the flow of usable potatoes.
Data Module
Potato Harvest Progress Monitor
Regiongrowing basin
Areaharvested versus remaining
Timingpace and historical comparison
Qualitycondition of lifted crop
Logisticsstorage, trucks, and plant intake
Decision usesupply-flow planning
Analysis
Why this matters
Harvest progress and crop size can diverge as market signals. A large crop still in wet fields is not immediately available, while a rapid harvest can create temporary congestion and price pressure. Commercial interpretation should focus on the flow into usable storage and buyer channels.
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 growers, processors, storage operators, logistics teams, and lenders that need to monitor potato harvest progress. Harvest progress tracks how much of the crop has been lifted and how field conditions, weather, quality, and logistics are affecting the flow into storage, plants, packing sheds, and markets. MassGain connects the pace with regional prices, intake demand, storage capacity, freight, and historical seasonal movement.
A slower harvest can delay commercial availability even when expected production remains adequate. A rapid harvest may create temporary price pressure, congestion, or storage bottlenecks. The quality and destination of the harvested crop also matter: total progress can look normal while processing-grade or preferred-variety volume remains behind. MassGain helps users compare regions, identify compressed harvest windows, and assess whether truck, plant, or storage capacity could constrain movement. Growers can prioritize vulnerable fields, processors can adjust intake and production schedules, and lenders can anticipate cash-flow timing changes. The result is a harvest indicator translated into supply, logistics, price, and quality implications rather than a simple percentage of acreage completed.
Use Case
Wet weather slows harvest in a processor's principal region while plant inventories are already lean. MassGain shows a secondary basin is progressing normally but freight capacity is tightening. Procurement books limited alternate loads, operations shifts flexible production, and finance updates the timing of raw-material receipts.
FAQs
What does potato harvest progress show?
It shows the share of crop harvested and the timing of movement into storage, processing, packing, or market channels.
Why can normal production still create harvest risk?
Weather and compressed timing can overwhelm field, truck, receiving, or storage capacity.
How does MassGain make harvest data actionable?
It connects progress with quality, regional prices, plant intake, storage, freight, and crop-transition exposure.
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Data and Methodology
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