Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Harvest Year Prices
Potato harvest year prices align market observations with the crop that produced the supply rather than the calendar year in which all sales occurred. MassGain preserves crop identity, region, channel, and storage period so growers, processors, and lenders can compare harvests without blending old- and new-crop economics.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato harvest-year prices align market observations with the crop that produced the supply rather than the calendar year in which all sales occurred. This is important because stored potatoes harvested in one year can be sold well into the next.
MassGain maps observations to crop periods, regions, market channels, and storage transitions so growers, processors, and lenders can compare one harvest with another without blending old- and new-crop economics.
Data Module
Harvest-year price context
Crop yearharvest associated with the potatoes
Regionproduction market represented
Channelfresh, processing, or other use
Storage periodpost-harvest carryover
Transitionold crop versus new crop timing
Decision usehistorical comparison and budget analysis
Analysis
Why this matters
Calendar-year averages can hide the true source of price movement by mixing two crops. A late-storage premium from the older harvest can disappear once new crop arrives even though the calendar average remains elevated.
MassGain helps preserve the crop identity behind each observation. That makes historical analogs and contract-cost analysis much cleaner.
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
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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
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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
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Overview
Who is this for?
This is for growers, processors, analysts, and agricultural lenders that need to compare potato prices across distinct harvest years rather than relying on a calendar-year average. Potato harvest-year prices align market values with the crop that produced the supply, making it easier to study how acreage, yield, quality, storage performance, contract coverage, and crop transitions affected realized prices. MassGain’s potato data suite helps preserve those crop-year distinctions across regions and market channels.
The approach is valuable because potatoes harvested in one year may be stored and sold well into the next. A calendar view can therefore blend two different crops, obscure the transition between them, or make a temporary storage premium look like a structural annual move. MassGain helps users map observations to the applicable harvest, compare historical analogs, and identify whether a price change emerged at harvest, during storage, or as the next crop approached.
Growers can use the history for marketing and storage analysis, processors for contract and standard-cost reviews, and lenders for revenue and collateral scenarios. MassGain does not imply that one harvest-year average applies to every variety or region. It provides the crop-period framework needed for cleaner comparisons and more credible planning.
Use Case
A processor is reviewing why raw-material costs increased even though calendar-year average potato prices changed little. MassGain separates the observations by harvest year and shows that the company bought heavily from an older crop during a late-storage quality squeeze, while the new crop entered at lower values. Finance rebuilds the variance by crop source and delivery period, preventing the temporary premium from being embedded in the next full-year standard cost.
FAQs
What is a potato harvest year?
It groups prices and supply with the crop that was harvested, even when some volume is stored and sold in the following calendar year.
Why can harvest-year analysis differ from calendar-year analysis?
Calendar periods may blend old-crop and new-crop potatoes with different quality, supply, and price conditions.
How does MassGain use harvest-year prices?
It aligns observations with crop periods, regions, channels, and storage transitions for cleaner historical comparisons.
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