Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Packaging Film Cost Index
Potato packaging film cost index data tracks material and conversion inputs for potato bags, frozen packs, liners, pouches, and specialty formats. Procurement can weight resin, gauge, layers, printing, converter charges, freight, and contract timing by actual package volume and separate commodity movement from redesign, scrap, or supplier-specific conversion.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato packaging-film-cost index tracks the material and conversion inputs used in retail bags, frozen-food packs, liners, pouches, and specialty potato formats. The market object is a weighted film basket by resin type, gauge, layers, printing, barrier performance, recycled content, converter charge, freight, contract lag, and actual package mix.
Use the data to validate supplier escalators and forecast packaging exposure by SKU while separating resin movement from printing, conversion, redesign, scrap, and usage. Match the benchmark to the food-grade film specification actually purchased.
Data Module
Potato Packaging Film Cost Index
Market objectweighted potato-film basket
Primary measuresmaterial and conversion cost
Key dimensionsresin, gauge, print, package mix
Commercial useescalator validation and forecasting
Method contextweights, contract lags, freight
Compare withinvoices, usage, redesign costs
Analysis
Why this matters
A broad plastics index can move differently from a printed multilayer food package because resin mix, conversion, freight, and contract timing differ. Package redesign can also raise invoices while commodity resin falls.
Commercial interpretation should preserve the actual specification and purchasing weights. Only the matched market component belongs in a commodity escalation; redesign and supplier-specific conversion should be analyzed separately.
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 and market-intelligence teams that need a packaging-film cost index for potato products. Film is used in retail bags, frozen-food packs, liners, pouches, and specialty formats, and its economics depend on resin type, gauge, printing, barrier performance, recycled content, conversion, freight, and order size. MassGain helps users build a basket that matches the packages actually purchased.
The suite can combine polyethylene, polypropylene, multilayer, or other relevant film inputs with converter charges, regional freight, contract lags, and product weights. Procurement can validate supplier escalators and compare package formats. Finance can forecast packaging exposure by SKU. Operations can see whether downgauging, scrap, line speed, or format proliferation changes cost per saleable unit. Market intelligence can separate resin movement from converter margin and design changes.
A broad plastics index may not track a printed food-grade film contract. MassGain does not quote packaging or recommend material specifications. It provides a transparent index and cost bridge with documented weights, sources, timing, and actual invoice validation so teams can distinguish market inflation from product redesign, usage, or supplier-specific changes.
Use Case
A frozen-fries supplier requests a film surcharge tied to a general plastics index. MassGain shows the plant’s contract uses a different resin mix and a three-month lag, while a new printed design also added conversion cost. Procurement accepts the matched resin component and treats redesign separately.
FAQs
What should a potato film index reflect?
It should reflect resin, gauge, layers, printing, conversion, freight, region, and the actual package mix.
Why may a general plastics index be unsuitable?
Food-grade film, contracts, lags, and converter costs may differ from broad commodity measures.
How does MassGain validate the index?
It compares weighted market inputs with specifications, purchase volumes, contracts, usage, and invoices.
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Data and Methodology
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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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