Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Market Concentration
Potato market concentration measures how much production, purchasing, processing, storage, distribution, or sales activity is controlled by a limited set of firms, regions, or infrastructure. MassGain maps ownership and market shares to physical capacity, sourcing basins, contracts, storage, and freight so users can identify real bargaining and resilience risks.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato market concentration measures how much production, purchasing, processing, storage, distribution, or sales activity is controlled by a limited set of firms, regions, or infrastructure. The object should define the market stage, product, geography, time period, and basis for market share.
Use concentration data with ownership, plant capacity, sourcing basins, storage networks, contracts, and freight corridors. This distinguishes legal participant diversity from the physical dependencies that determine bargaining power and resilience.
Data Module
Potato Market Concentration Monitor
Stagegrower, processor, buyer, storage, or distribution
Marketdefined product and geography
Shareparticipant or regional concentration
Infrastructureplants, storage, and routes
Contextcontracts and capacity
Decision usestructural risk and bargaining analysis
Analysis
Why this matters
A market can look fragmented by company count while remaining concentrated around one growing basin or processing network. That structure can amplify outages, crop events, or buyer power. Commercial interpretation should therefore combine ownership concentration with physical concentration and realistic alternate-market access.
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 leaders, processors, growers, distributors, lenders, and market analysts that need to understand potato market concentration. Market concentration measures how much production, purchasing, processing, storage, or sales activity is controlled by a limited number of participants or regions. MassGain helps users separate concentration by market stage, product, geography, crop period, and buyer or supplier role.
Concentration matters because it can affect bargaining power, price discovery, resilience, and access to alternate supply. A market may have many legal entities but remain physically concentrated if they rely on the same growing basin, storage network, processor, freight corridor, or customer group. MassGain connects market shares with regional crop supply, capacity, contracts, prices, and historical disruptions. Procurement can identify dependency, growers can evaluate buyer power, and lenders can understand correlated exposure. The result is a structural market view that distinguishes simple participant counts from the actual control points and shared dependencies that determine how the potato market behaves under normal and stressed conditions.
Use Case
A processor believes its supplier base is diversified across eight growers. MassGain shows six operate in the same basin and deliver through one storage network. Procurement adds a second region and preserves optional volume elsewhere rather than relying on supplier count alone.
FAQs
What is potato market concentration?
It measures how much market activity is controlled by a limited set of firms, buyers, suppliers, regions, or infrastructure.
Why can legal diversity hide physical concentration?
Separate firms may share the same crop basin, storage, plant, freight route, or customer exposure.
How does MassGain map concentration?
It connects market shares with geography, capacity, contracts, infrastructure, prices, and disruption risk.
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Data and Methodology
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