Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Harvested Area Data
Potato harvested area data measures the land from which potatoes were actually lifted, separating realized harvest from planted intentions. MassGain links the planted-to-harvested gap with weather, abandonment, yield, quality, contracts, and prices to improve production and revenue estimates.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato Harvested Area Data measures the land from which potatoes were actually lifted, separating realized harvest from planted intentions. The object should preserve region, crop year, variety or sector where available, area unit, and reporting vintage.
Use harvested area with yield, quality, weather, abandonment, and prices to estimate realized production. The gap between planted and harvested area can reveal flooding, drought, disease, field-access problems, or economic abandonment that changes supply and grower revenue.
Data Module
Potato Harvested Area Monitor
Regiongrowing area
Plantedintended crop area
Harvestedarea actually lifted
Gapabandonment or unharvested area
Contextweather, quality, yield
Decision userealized supply estimate
Analysis
Why this matters
Planted area can remain normal while harvested area falls materially, so acreage intentions alone can overstate final crop supply. The gap matters most when it is concentrated in a critical region, variety, or sector rather than spread evenly across the crop.
Signal 01
Usable Crop Uncertainty Index
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UCUI is designed to analyze potato-industry publications and data signals across regions, varieties, weather, disease, storage, supply, and demand.
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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
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Core Russet Carton Median
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Series window45 days
Current public coverageCore russet cartons
Primary source basisQualifying USDA physical rows
UnitUSD per metric tonne
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Russet Burbank — U.S. Midsize
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ProductRusset Burbank
SpecificationU.S. midsize, 40–70 count
Reference typePhysical spot benchmark
StatusIn development
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Overview
Who is this for?
This page is for growers, producer groups, processors, agricultural lenders, and market analysts that need to compare planted acreage with the area actually harvested. Harvested area excludes fields or portions of fields that were not successfully lifted, giving a more realistic foundation for production and revenue analysis than planted area alone. MassGain organizes harvested area by region, crop year, variety, end use, and reporting vintage and connects it with weather, abandonment, yield, quality, and market prices.
The gap between planted and harvested area can widen because of flooding, drought, disease, frost, field access, economic abandonment, or reporting revisions. That difference affects grower revenue, processor contract coverage, seed needs, and the amount of crop entering storage or market channels. MassGain helps users compare the gap with historical norms and determine whether the lost area is concentrated in a critical sourcing basin or variety. Growers can assess marketable production, processors can update intake assumptions, and lenders can revise collateral and repayment scenarios. The result is a more accurate measure of the land that actually contributed to the harvested crop.
Use Case
After a wet season, planted acreage appears normal but MassGain shows harvested area declined materially in one basin because fields were abandoned or inaccessible. Growers revise marketed-volume expectations, processors source a backup tranche, and lenders update production and cash-flow assumptions for borrowers in the affected region.
FAQs
What is potato harvested area?
It is the acreage or hectares from which potatoes were actually harvested.
Why can harvested area be lower than planted area?
Weather, disease, field access, crop failure, economics, and abandonment can prevent harvest.
How does MassGain use harvested-area data?
It connects the harvested footprint with yield, quality, production, prices, contracts, and regional exposure.
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