Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Pesticide Use Intensity
The potato pesticide use intensity view records active ingredients, rates, application timing, treated area, target pests, weather, and marketable output under a defined denominator. Growers and buyers can compare crop-protection programs in context and avoid treating raw spray counts as a complete measure of agronomic or environmental performance.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato pesticide-use-intensity data measures crop-protection use relative to acreage, treated area, marketable output, or another defined denominator, with product, active ingredient, rate, timing, target pest, and field context attached. The market object is the field-season protection program rather than raw spray count alone.
Use the data to compare growers under similar pest pressure, distinguish application frequency from risk-weighted use, and connect crop protection with yield, quality, resistance, and supply reliability. Keep weather, pest severity, and treated area aligned before comparing regions or seasons.
Data Module
Potato Pesticide Use Intensity
Market objectfield-season crop-protection program
Primary measuresamount, frequency, treated area, risk
Key dimensionsfield, active ingredient, pest, season
Commercial usesustainability and supply-risk analysis
Contextweather, pest pressure, yield
Compare withquality, crop loss, marketable output
Analysis
Why this matters
Fewer applications do not automatically mean lower intensity or lower risk because products, rates, treated area, pest pressure, and toxicity profiles differ. A low-spray season may simply reflect unusually light pest pressure.
Commercial interpretation should normalize the agronomic context and relate input use to marketable output and crop loss. The useful signal is efficient protection under comparable conditions, not the smallest raw application count.
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
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 potato growers, producer groups, sustainability teams, buyers, and researchers that need to measure pesticide-use intensity. Intensity can describe the amount, frequency, treated area, toxicity-weighted burden, or risk-adjusted use of crop-protection products relative to acreage or marketable output. MassGain helps users avoid treating one simple volume measure as a complete account of agronomic or environmental performance.
The suite can organize product, active ingredient, rate, application date, target pest, treated area, weather, resistance strategy, preharvest interval, yield, quality, and crop loss by field and season. Growers can compare programs under similar pest pressure. Buyers can verify whether claims apply to contracted supply. Sustainability teams can distinguish fewer applications from a lower overall risk profile. Market intelligence can evaluate whether pest pressure or restricted tools may affect regional production.
MassGain does not recommend pesticide use, assess legal compliance, or replace agronomists. It provides the transparent evidence needed to define the metric, preserve pest and weather context, and connect crop-protection decisions with yield, quality, resistance, environmental goals, and commercial supply risk.
Use Case
A buyer sees one grower report fewer applications than peers. MassGain shows unusually low pest pressure explains much of the difference, while another grower uses more targeted applications but achieves lower crop loss and a better risk-weighted profile. The buyer avoids rewarding raw spray counts alone.
FAQs
What can pesticide-use intensity measure?
It can measure amount, applications, treated area, toxicity-weighted burden, or risk relative to output.
Why are spray counts alone insufficient?
Products, rates, pests, toxicity, treated area, weather, and crop loss can differ substantially.
How does MassGain improve the metric?
It links applications with active ingredients, fields, pest pressure, weather, yield, quality, and risk.
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Data and Methodology
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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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