Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Pest Free Area Requirements
Potato pest free area requirements define the evidence needed to preserve eligibility from a recognized production area through storage, packing, and shipment. Growers and exporters can verify qualifying lots and identify alternate origins if status changes.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato pest-free-area data documents official geographic status for a specified pest through boundaries, surveillance, field locations, inspections, sampling, certification, storage, packing, transport, and chain of custody. The market object is the qualifying potato lot whose origin and handling preserve pest-free-area eligibility.
Use the data to verify field and shipment qualification, protect segregation, and assess alternate origins if a detection or boundary change affects market access. Keep pest, destination, and recognition period explicit.
Data Module
Potato Pest-Free Area Requirements
Market objectpest-free-origin eligible lot
Primary fieldsarea, pest, surveillance, status
Key dimensionsfield, lot, storage, destination
Commercial usemarket-access and export planning
Governanceboundary and chain of custody
Compare withalternate qualifying origins
Analysis
Why this matters
Pest-free status can create a commercially distinct supply pool because certain destinations may accept only potatoes with recognized origin and preserved custody. General regional production is therefore an inadequate substitute.
Commercial interpretation should monitor both status and segregation. One detection or mixing event can narrow eligible supply without changing total crop tonnage.
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.
October 26, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Flat headline prices mask a regional squeeze on carton russets
MassGain’s physical indicators are unchanged, but USDA shipping‑point reports and terminal quotes show premiums for 40–70s russets. UCUI remains NORMAL even as European yields and UK storage quality draw attention.
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
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Overview
Who is this for?
This page is for growers, exporters, processors, certification agencies, and market analysts that need to meet potato pest-free-area requirements. A pest-free area is officially recognized as free from a specified pest under defined surveillance, control, and documentation conditions. Access to certain domestic or export markets may depend on proving that potatoes originated and remained within that status.
MassGain can organize area boundaries, target pest, surveillance records, farm and field locations, inspection, sampling, certification, storage, packing, transport, and chain of custody. Growers can verify whether fields qualify. Exporters can match certificates with destination requirements. Procurement can assess whether a source remains eligible after a detection or boundary change. Market analysts can understand how recognition affects available supply and regional premiums.
MassGain does not establish pest-free status or provide phytosanitary advice. It provides the evidence, geography, and lot-linkage framework needed to prevent ineligible product from being represented as pest-free, preserve qualification through handling, and evaluate alternate origins when status changes threaten a contract or market.
Use Case
An exporter contracts potatoes from several farms for a market requiring pest-free-area origin. MassGain verifies field coordinates, surveillance status, storage segregation, packing records, and shipment certificates. One lot from outside the recognized boundary is removed before consolidation.
FAQs
What is a pest-free area?
It is an officially recognized area where a specified pest is absent under maintained surveillance and control conditions.
Why must chain of custody be preserved?
Mixing with potatoes from outside the recognized area can invalidate the origin claim and market access.
How does MassGain support eligibility?
It links boundaries, farms, fields, surveillance, lots, storage, packing, certificates, and destinations.
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