Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Open Market Price Index
A potato open market price index tracks prices for processing-suitable potatoes available outside normal contract coverage. MassGain preserves constituents, volume, delivery basis, concentration, and evidence type so procurement can distinguish broad supplemental-market repricing from one urgent trade in a thin market.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato open market price index tracks prices for processing-suitable potatoes available outside normal contract coverage within a defined region, quality, delivery period, and transaction class. The market object should exclude contracted transfers, unrelated fresh-market quotes, and exceptional trades unless methodology explicitly includes them.
Use the index to evaluate supplemental supply and uncovered exposure. Preserve constituent trades, bids, offers, volume, concentration, and delivery basis so users can distinguish broad repricing from one urgent replacement purchase in a thin physical market.
Data Module
Potato Open Market Price Index
ObjectNon-contracted processing-potato price benchmark
ScopeRegion, quality, delivery period, evidence type
InputsQualified trades, bids, offers, volume
Commercial useSpot offers and uncovered exposure
ConfidenceConstituents, concentration, market depth
WatchpointEmergency trades can distort a thin market
Analysis
Why this matters
Open-market indices matter because processing potato spot activity is often thin and episodic. One emergency purchase can be economically real without representing the price available for normal program volume.
Price and liquidity should therefore be read together. A rising index supported by several normal trades has different commercial significance from the same move driven by one small, urgent transaction.
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 processors, procurement teams, benchmark users, and market analysts that need a processing-potato open market price index. The index tracks price movement for suitable processing potatoes available outside normal contract coverage, using defined regions, varieties or product classes, quality standards, delivery windows, and transaction types. MassGain helps users distinguish true open-market activity from contracted transfers, fresh-market quotations, and isolated emergency purchases.
The index is valuable because supplemental processing supply can move rapidly when crop quality, storage, processor demand, or contract shortfalls change. Yet the market is often thin and fragmented, making constituent transparency essential. MassGain normalizes units and delivery bases, separates trades from bids and offers, tests contributor and volume concentration, and connects each movement with available supply, historical spreads, and regional conditions. Procurement can evaluate spot offers and uncovered exposure, finance can isolate exceptional purchases, and benchmark administrators can publish confidence and coverage alongside the headline. MassGain does not imply the index is executable for every plant or volume. It provides a governed physical-market reference that shows when open supply is broadly repricing and when one urgent transaction should remain an exception rather than reset the contract book.
Use Case
A regional open-market index jumps after one processor buys urgent replacement volume. MassGain shows normal trades remain lower and the premium applies only to immediate high-solids supply. Procurement uses the index's constituent view to cover a short gap without raising its full-season budget.
FAQs
What does a processing-potato open market index cover?
It covers defined non-contracted processing-potato activity by region, quality, delivery period, and evidence type.
Why is constituent transparency important?
Thin markets can be dominated by one urgent, small, or unusually specified transaction.
How does MassGain protect index quality?
It normalizes data, classifies evidence, monitors concentration, preserves constituents, and publishes market-coverage context.
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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.
Commercial use and licensing
Public display does not grant rights to reproduce, redistribute, republish, or incorporate MassGain indices or references into commercial products or contracts without authorization.