Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Land Rent Per Acre
Potato land rent per acre measures the effective field lease obligation after cash rent, share terms, water, taxes, bonuses, or included rights are considered. Procurement and growers can compare land cost with yield, quality, processor access, freight, and competing-crop returns.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato land-rent-per-acre data measures the effective lease obligation for potato ground after accounting for cash rent, crop-share terms, water charges, taxes, bonuses, improvements, and other included rights. The market object is the leased field by region, soil, irrigation, rotation, disease history, location, and term.
Use the data to compare land economics with expected yield, quality, processor contracts, freight, and competing crops. Headline cash rent should be normalized for included services and risk-sharing provisions.
Data Module
Potato Land Rent per Acre
Market objecteffective potato land lease cost
Primary measurerent and associated charges
Key dimensionsfield, region, lease type, year
Commercial useland-cost and sourcing analysis
Land contextsoil, irrigation, rotation
Compare withyield, contracts, freight
Analysis
Why this matters
Higher-rent land can be cheaper on a delivered potato basis if it offers strong yield, irrigation, quality, and proximity to a processor. Rent alone is therefore not a complete production-cost signal.
Commercial interpretation should compare effective land cost with marketable output and logistics while preserving lease terms and rotation constraints.
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
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Overview
Who is this for?
This page is for procurement and market-intelligence teams that need to understand potato land rent per acre. Rent can be cash, crop-share, flexible, or embedded in a broader production agreement, and its commercial meaning depends on soil, irrigation, rotation, location, field size, disease history, and access to storage or processors. MassGain helps users compare land obligations with expected potato revenue and risk.
The suite can organize base rent, bonuses, share formulas, water charges, taxes, lease term, permitted crops, rotation limits, improvement obligations, and field characteristics. Users can compare rent with yield history, quality, regional potato prices, processing contracts, freight, and competing-crop returns. Growers can test whether a field supports the required return. Procurement can understand geographic cost differences. Lenders can assess fixed obligations and sensitivity. Analysts can separate land scarcity from temporary commodity strength.
Headline rent alone can be misleading when leases include water, buildings, storage, or risk-sharing terms. MassGain does not appraise land or provide legal advice. It provides a transparent market and farm-economics framework that helps users compare effective land cost per acre and understand how lease structure affects long-term potato production capacity.
Use Case
A processor wants growers to expand acreage near a plant. MassGain compares local cash rents, irrigation access, yield history, rotation constraints, and freight savings with farther regions. The analysis shows the higher-rent local acres remain competitive because delivered cost and quality are stronger.
FAQs
What determines potato land rent?
Soil, irrigation, location, rotation, disease history, field scale, access, and competing-crop returns all matter.
Why compare effective rather than headline rent?
Water, taxes, improvements, bonuses, buildings, and crop-share terms may change the true obligation.
How does MassGain test affordability?
It connects rent with yield, quality, price, contracts, freight, crop rotation, and downside scenarios.
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Data and Methodology
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