Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Import Source Concentration
Potato import source concentration shows how much imported supply depends on one or a few origin countries. Risk and procurement teams can combine source shares with product fit, contracts, freight, seasonality, and alternate capacity to judge true vulnerability.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato import-source-concentration data measures how much imported potato supply depends on one or a few origin countries. The market object is the destination's source mix by product form, period, partner share, and concentration measure.
Use the data to identify sourcing dependency, qualify diversification options, and stress disruptions in dominant origins. Combine concentration with product fit, contracts, freight, seasonality, quality, and lane resilience because nominal source diversity may not provide commercially equivalent substitutes.
Data Module
Potato Import Source Concentration
Market objectimport dependence by origin
Primary measuressource share and concentration
Key dimensionsproduct, origin, destination, period
Commercial usesource-risk analysis
Market contextsubstitutability and lane resilience
Compare withdomestic and alternate-origin supply
Analysis
Why this matters
Concentration measures dependence, not automatic fragility. A dominant origin can be reliable when contracts and routes are strong, while multiple nominal sources may share the same bottleneck.
Commercial interpretation should combine source shares with true substitutability, quality, timing, and alternate-lane depth before judging resilience.
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 analysts, procurement teams, lenders, and risk managers that need to measure potato import source concentration. Concentration shows how much imported volume depends on a small number of origin countries or suppliers. MassGain helps users connect that concentration with product suitability, seasonality, policy, currency, logistics, and domestic alternatives.
The suite can calculate partner shares, top-source dependence, and concentration indices by product form, period, destination, and market. Analysts can distinguish a diversified headline total from a narrow specification dominated by one origin. Procurement can identify where diversification is commercially realistic. Lenders can stress disruption in the largest source. Market intelligence can track whether concentration is rising because of cost advantage, capacity, trade policy, or loss of alternatives.
Concentration does not automatically mean vulnerability if relationships are stable and substitutes are available. MassGain does not prescribe a target threshold. It provides the physical-market context needed to judge whether source dependence creates meaningful operational and pricing risk for the exact potato product and delivery window.
Use Case
A dehydrated-potato buyer sources 70% of imported flakes from one country. MassGain shows alternate origins exist but lack equivalent quality and shipping reliability. The buyer qualifies a second source gradually rather than treating nominal trade diversification as immediate resilience.
FAQs
How is import source concentration measured?
It can be measured through partner shares, top-source dependence, or concentration indices such as HHI.
Does high concentration always mean high risk?
Not necessarily; reliability, substitutes, contracts, inventories, and lane resilience also matter.
How does MassGain assess true vulnerability?
It combines concentration with product fit, policy, freight, seasonality, quality, and alternate supply.
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Data and Methodology
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Figures may reflect the latest available observation rather than a same-day transaction. Source data and MassGain calculations may be corrected, restated, or revised.
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