Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Official Statistics Release Calendar
A potato official statistics release calendar organizes scheduled government and industry publications covering acreage, production, stocks, prices, trade, and related measures. MassGain links release dates with reference periods, source agencies, expected revisions, and affected models so teams can plan updates without confusing publication timing with market timing.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato official-statistics-release calendar consolidates scheduled government and governed publications covering acreage, production, yield, stocks, trade, prices, crop progress, processing, and related potato series. The market object is the release event with agency, reference period, geography, frequency, status, publication time, and revision policy.
Use the calendar to coordinate data ingestion, model updates, procurement reviews, and historical research across jurisdictions. Distinguish the economic observation period from the date the statistic becomes available and retain changes to publication schedules.
Data Module
Potato Official Statistics Release Calendar
Market objectscheduled official-data event
Primary fieldsagency, release time, reference period
Key dimensionsdataset, geography, frequency, status
Commercial usedata and decision workflow planning
Governancepreliminary/final and revision policy
Compare withmodel and contract deadlines
Analysis
Why this matters
Official potato statistics arrive on different schedules and may refer to different crop periods, so a multinational view can become asynchronous. Comparing a fresh monthly trade series with a delayed quarterly stock figure without date context can misstate the current balance.
Commercial interpretation should make data age explicit and stage decisions around known releases. The calendar reduces the risk that a forecast silently assumes information that has not yet been published.
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, researchers, procurement teams, processors, and planners that need a potato official-statistics release calendar. The calendar consolidates scheduled publications for acreage, production, yield, stocks, trade, prices, crop progress, processing, and other government or governed datasets across relevant countries and regions.
MassGain can organize agency, series, publication time, reference period, geography, frequency, preliminary or final status, historical delay, and revision policy. Analysts can stage data ingestion and validation. Procurement can prepare scenarios before high-impact crop or stocks reports. Finance can coordinate budget and forecast updates. Researchers can avoid accidentally using a release that had not yet occurred on a historical decision date. The calendar can also flag changed schedules, missed publications, and new or discontinued series.
MassGain does not control agency timing or guarantee publication. It provides a governed planning layer that links each release with the models, benchmarks, reports, and commercial decisions that depend on it. Users can distinguish the observation period from the publication date and maintain current workflows across multiple jurisdictions without relying on scattered agency pages or memory.
Use Case
A multinational processor tracks crop and trade data from six countries. MassGain consolidates release times, reference periods, and revision status, then alerts analysts when one agency delays its production report. The weekly outlook remains based on the last verified vintage rather than an assumed update.
FAQs
What belongs on an official statistics calendar?
Agency, dataset, release time, reference period, geography, frequency, status, and revision policy should appear.
Why track preliminary and final releases?
Values may change and different decisions or contracts may specify different vintages.
How does MassGain support data operations?
It links releases with ingestion, validation, models, reports, benchmarks, and decision deadlines.
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Data and Methodology
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MassGain is building transparent public market infrastructure. Each live metric will identify its date, unit, coverage, methodology, and source basis.
Data provenance
MassGain uses public, licensed, contributed, and independently derived physical-market information. Source availability and publication schedules vary.
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.
Not transactional pricing
MassGain figures are informational reference values and do not constitute executable bids, offers, settlements, or guarantees that a transaction can occur at the displayed value.
No individualized advice
Content and data are provided for informational and analytical purposes and do not constitute financial, investment, legal, trading, or individualized procurement advice.
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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Public display does not grant rights to reproduce, redistribute, republish, or incorporate MassGain indices or references into commercial products or contracts without authorization.