Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Monthly Trade Statistics
Potato monthly trade statistics provide a high-frequency view of cross-border volume, value, partner, and product. Analysts can separate normal seasonal windows from genuine turning points by comparing rolling periods, shipment timing, and domestic crop conditions.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato monthly-trade data tracks cross-border potato volume, value, unit value, partner, and product at monthly frequency. The market object is the monthly flow aligned to crop calendar, shipment timing, and reporting basis.
Use the data to detect import windows, export surges, policy shocks, and turning points that annual totals smooth away. Compare rolling periods and normal seasonality because working days, delayed vessels, or one large shipment can distort an individual month.
Data Module
Potato Monthly Trade Statistics
Market objectmonthly cross-border potato flow
Primary measuresvolume, value, unit value
Key dimensionsproduct, partner, month
Commercial usehigh-frequency trade monitoring
Market contextseasonality and shipment timing
Compare withcrop, storage, prices, domestic demand
Analysis
Why this matters
Monthly trade is sensitive to calendar noise. A delayed shipment can make one month look weak and the next unusually strong even when the underlying quarter is normal.
Commercial interpretation should use rolling comparisons and verify product and partner relevance before changing a supply outlook from one monthly print.
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, processors, and market researchers that need monthly potato trade statistics. Monthly data reveals harvest transitions, storage drawdown, import windows, export surges, and short-lived disruptions that annual totals smooth away. MassGain organizes these series so users can distinguish normal seasonality from a genuine change in market balance.
The suite can compare monthly volume, value, unit price, origin, destination, product form, port, and transport mode with domestic production, storage, crop progress, currency, freight, and prices. Procurement can identify when imports usually become available and whether current flows are early or late. Analysts can monitor policy shocks and trade substitution. Finance can align trade assumptions with monthly budgets and plant exposure.
Monthly records can be volatile, revised, and affected by working days or shipment timing. MassGain preserves calendar and reporting context rather than treating one month as a trend. It provides the high-frequency trade view needed to interpret turning points and assess whether current flow is commercially meaningful.
Use Case
A potato-flake buyer sees imports double in one month. MassGain shows the increase reflects a vessel delayed from the prior month and that the three-month total remains normal. Procurement avoids revising the annual supply outlook from a calendar artifact.
FAQs
Why use monthly potato trade data?
It reveals seasonal windows, disruptions, turning points, and shipment timing hidden in annual totals.
Why can one month be misleading?
Delays, working days, vessel timing, revisions, and one large shipment can create volatility.
How does MassGain validate a monthly move?
It compares rolling periods, seasonality, products, partners, prices, ports, and domestic fundamentals.
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Data and Methodology
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Data provenance
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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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Independent publication
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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