Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Industrial Producer Price Index
A potato industrial producer price index measures price movement across a defined basket of manufactured potato outputs. Processors and finance teams can compare it with raw-potato, energy, packaging, labor, utilization, and product-mix data to understand what is driving finished-goods pricing.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato industrial producer price index measures price changes for a defined basket of manufactured potato outputs at the producer or factory-gate stage. It may cover frozen, dehydrated, starch, chip, or prepared products and should identify plant geography, customer channels, weights, base period, and revision rules.
Use the index to analyze finished-product pricing alongside regional raw-potato costs, energy, oil, packaging, labor, utilization, and product mix. Do not treat industrial output prices as a raw-potato benchmark.
Data Module
Potato Industrial Producer Price Index
ObjectFactory-level processed potato price index
ProductsFrozen, dehydrated, starch, chips, prepared
DimensionsRegion, channel, period, basket weight
Commercial useMargin and supplier-price analysis
ComparisonRaw potato and processing input costs
WatchpointFinished-product mix can dominate the headline
Analysis
Why this matters
Industrial producer prices matter because they reveal whether processors are recovering cost pressure, but the underlying drivers extend far beyond potatoes. Energy, packaging, oil, yield, capacity, and customer contract timing can move the output index independently.
The analytical task is to bridge output price to inputs. That separates agricultural inflation from conversion pressure and product-mix effects, which is critical when evaluating supplier pass-through.
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
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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
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Overview
Who is this for?
This page is for potato processors, industrial economists, procurement teams, finance leaders, and analysts that need to track prices received by industrial producers. A potato industrial producer price index measures changes in factory-gate or producer-level prices for a defined basket of processed potato outputs, such as frozen products, dehydrated ingredients, starch, chips, or other manufactured goods. MassGain helps users understand the product basket, plant geography, customer channels, weights, base period, and revision policy behind the index.
The index should not be confused with raw-potato prices. Finished industrial output includes conversion, yield, energy, labor, packaging, storage, freight terms, capacity, product mix, and commercial margin. MassGain compares the output index with regional raw-potato benchmarks and other input-cost measures so users can see whether producer prices are responding to agricultural pressure, manufacturing costs, product mix, or customer contract timing. Processors can evaluate pricing recovery, finance can build margin bridges, procurement can understand suppliers’ output economics, and lenders can stress borrower revenue. Constituent analysis also shows whether the headline is broad or driven by one premium product category. The result is a transparent industrial-price measure that supports inflation, margin, contract, and market analysis without applying finished-product movement directly to unrelated raw-material purchases.
Use Case
A processor’s industrial producer price index rises 7% while its raw-potato benchmark increases only 2%. MassGain shows the remaining movement is concentrated in coated frozen products with higher energy and packaging costs. Finance separates agricultural inflation from conversion and product-mix effects.
FAQs
What does a potato industrial producer price index track?
It tracks price movement for a defined basket of manufactured potato products at the producer or factory-gate stage.
Is it the same as a raw-potato index?
No. Industrial output prices also reflect processing, yield, energy, labor, packaging, capacity, and product mix.
Why review product constituents?
One high-value product category can drive the headline while other processed potato markets remain stable.
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Data and Methodology
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