Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Monthly Producer Prices
Potato monthly producer prices provide a seasonal view of values received by growers for defined markets and sales channels. Procurement and lending teams can compare each month with historical ranges, storage conditions, contract share, and sold volume instead of extrapolating one observation across the crop year.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato monthly producer prices report prices received by producers at monthly frequency for a defined region, product, market stage, and sales channel. The object should distinguish contract and open-market business, crop use, variety, unit, and whether the month reflects transaction timing or reporting timing.
Use monthly data to study harvest pressure, storage premiums, crop transitions, and seasonal marketing. Compare each month with historical seasonal ranges, crop conditions, storage quality, and sold volume rather than extrapolating one late-season or harvest observation across the year.
Data Module
Potato Monthly Producer Prices
ObjectMonthly producer-level potato prices
DimensionsRegion, product, channel, month, unit
Commercial useSeasonality, budgets, grower revenue
ComparisonHistorical month, storage, contracts
SignalHarvest and storage-cycle pricing
WatchpointOne month may represent a narrow sales window
Analysis
Why this matters
Monthly prices matter because potatoes are strongly seasonal. A late-storage premium can coexist with much lower realized grower revenue if most volume was contracted or sold earlier.
Interpret the series with sales timing and crop stage. The same numeric change has different implications during harvest, storage drawdown, and new-crop transition, especially across fresh and processing channels.
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 growers, processors, procurement teams, lenders, and finance analysts that need a monthly view of prices received by potato producers. Potato monthly producer prices show how farm- or producer-level values change through harvest, storage, crop transitions, and contract cycles. MassGain helps users organize the series by region, potato use, variety, unit, market stage, and contract or open-market status so the monthly figure is not mistaken for a universal cash price.
Monthly data is especially valuable for identifying seasonality and timing. A regional price may weaken during heavy harvest movement, strengthen as storage stocks decline, or remain stable because most production is contracted. MassGain compares each observation with historical monthly ranges, crop conditions, storage quality, sales pace, and downstream demand. Growers can evaluate marketing outcomes, processors can understand the timing of raw-material pressure, and lenders can test borrower revenue assumptions against the months when sales actually occur. The platform also flags revisions, missing months, and changes in product mix that may distort comparisons. The result is a time-sensitive producer-price history that supports budgeting, contract analysis, seasonal forecasting, and market review while preserving the regional and commercial context behind every monthly value.
Use Case
A lender reviews a grower budget that assumes the latest monthly producer price will persist all season. MassGain shows the current value reflects a short late-storage premium and that most borrower volume is delivered under earlier fixed contracts. The credit team replaces the headline price with a timing-weighted revenue assumption.
FAQs
What do monthly potato producer prices show?
They show producer-level price movement by defined month, region, product, unit, and market channel.
Why are monthly comparisons useful?
They reveal harvest pressure, storage premiums, contract timing, and crop-transition patterns hidden by annual averages.
Can one monthly price represent the full crop year?
No. Sales timing, contracts, quality, region, storage, and product mix can change realized prices materially.
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Data and Methodology
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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.
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Certain observations may be derived from USDA reports. MassGain is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USDA.
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