Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Historical Price Data Download
A potato historical price data download provides governed time series with original and normalized values, product, grade, region, unit, market stage, delivery basis, source, revisions, and methodology. MassGain preserves structural breaks and discontinued series so analysts can backtest and benchmark without creating false continuity.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato historical-price-data-download data provides time series by product, variety, grade, size, region, currency, unit, market stage, delivery basis, source, and publication vintage. The market object is the historical observation with its original and normalized values, methodology, revision history, and comparability flags.
Use the data to build reproducible benchmarks, forecasts, contract reviews, and research while preserving discontinued series and structural breaks. Combine series only when definitions and transformations are explicit.
Data Module
Potato Historical Price Data Download
Market objectgoverned historical price observation
Primary measuresoriginal and normalized value
Key dimensionsproduct, region, basis, vintage
Commercial useresearch and backtesting
Controlsrevisions, methodology, data gaps
Compare withmatched series and actual purchases
Analysis
Why this matters
A long time series can be analytically worse than a shorter one if reporting definitions changed and the break is hidden. Apparent trends may simply reflect a different grade, geography, market stage, or unit.
Commercial interpretation should preserve original series and mark any bridge. Historical prices are evidence of recorded market conditions, not proof that every buyer could have transacted at those values.
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 procurement and market-intelligence teams downloading potato historical price data for benchmarking, forecasting, contract review, and research. MassGain organizes time series by product, variety, grade, size, region, unit, currency, market stage, delivery basis, source, and publication vintage.
Users can select date ranges, original and normalized values, revisions, methodology notes, and metadata rather than receiving an unlabeled spreadsheet of mixed observations. The suite preserves discontinued series, code changes, breaks in methodology, and the distinction between transactions, bids, offers, ranges, indices, and modeled values.
Analysts can build reproducible studies, procurement can compare supplier history with matched markets, and finance can back-test assumptions. MassGain does not imply that historical prices were executable for every buyer or that unlike series can be spliced without review. It provides a governed download framework that makes the provenance, transformations, gaps, and comparability of each potato price series visible.
Use Case
An analyst downloads ten years of regional russet prices for a cost model. MassGain includes original units, normalized delivered values, source vintages, methodology breaks, and missing-period flags. The analyst avoids creating a false continuous series across a reporting change.
FAQs
What should a historical price download include?
It should include values, dates, products, regions, units, terms, sources, revisions, and methodology.
Can different series be combined automatically?
Only when definitions and bases are sufficiently comparable and the transformation is documented.
Are historical prices executable quotes?
No. They are recorded market evidence under the conditions and coverage of their sources.
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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
Public display does not grant rights to reproduce, redistribute, republish, or incorporate MassGain indices or references into commercial products or contracts without authorization.