Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Price Benchmark
A potato price benchmark gives processors a consistent external baseline when private transactions vary by region, variety, quality, crop period, and contract structure. MassGain adds historical ranges and constituent evidence so teams can identify broad versus localized movement and select the reference that best matches plant exposure.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato price benchmark provides a consistent external baseline for comparing potato-market values when private transactions are fragmented across regions, varieties, grades, crop periods, and contract structures. A useful benchmark defines its market basis and exposes enough constituent context to show what the reference actually represents.
MassGain helps processors use that baseline for grower negotiations, supplier reviews, plant budgets, and customer cost explanations. Historical comparisons and regional constituents make it possible to determine whether a move is broad or narrow and to select the series that most closely matches a plant's raw-material exposure.
Data Module
Potato price benchmark context
Benchmark basisqualifying physical-market reference set
Regiongeography represented by the series
Productvariety, grade, pack, or processing use
Timingcrop period and observation date
Constituentsobservations driving benchmark movement
Decision usenegotiation, budgeting, and cost validation
Analysis
Why this matters
The usefulness of a price benchmark depends on fit. A national or fresh-market series can be methodologically sound yet poorly suited to a processing plant with a different region, variety, storage program, or contract cycle. The benchmark should narrow uncertainty, not create false equivalence.
For processors, the key analytical step is to bridge from the external reference to actual purchase economics. That may require adjustments for quality, freight, storage, recovery, timing, and private terms. MassGain makes the external market movement auditable enough for those differences to be explained rather than hidden inside a single supplier quote.
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 10, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Potato prices quiet at $30/cwt as regional harvest damage buzzes beneath the surface
Market indicators are stable, but reporting from Europe and select growing areas shows real, localized crop stress — a reminder that steady headline prices can mask uneven physical risk.
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 is for food processors that need an independent reference for evaluating potato purchase costs, supplier proposals, contract resets, budgets, and finished-product margin assumptions. A potato price benchmark provides a consistent market baseline when private transactions are fragmented and individual quotes may reflect different regions, varieties, quality standards, timing, storage, or freight conditions. MassGain’s potato data suite helps procurement and finance teams compare those unlike inputs using a transparent reference framework.
The benchmark becomes most useful when users can see why it moved. MassGain adds historical comparisons, constituent context, physical-market observations, and uncertainty signals so teams can determine whether a change is broad-based, temporary, regional, or driven by a narrow segment. Procurement can then select the comparison that best matches a plant or contract instead of applying one national number without adjustment.
For processors, this supports grower negotiations, raw-material budgeting, plant variance reviews, and customer pricing discussions. Finance can distinguish market-driven cost pressure from company-specific effects such as yield, recovery, storage, or logistics. Commercial teams can use the same evidence to prepare more credible cost bridges without overstating the relationship between raw potatoes and finished products. MassGain does not dictate a final contract price. It provides a stable, auditable market anchor that makes assumptions easier to compare, challenge, and explain across the organization.
Use Case
A potato-flake manufacturer receives contract proposals from suppliers in three regions. The sourcing team compares each proposal with the relevant MassGain potato price benchmark and reviews the underlying regional constituents. Two offers align with observable market movement, while the third carries an unexplained premium. Procurement negotiates the outlier down and finance uses the validated regional benchmarks to set separate raw-material assumptions for each plant.
FAQs
What does a potato price benchmark measure?
It provides a consistent reference for comparing potato-market values across time, geography, products, or sourcing conditions.
Why can processor costs differ from the benchmark?
Variety, quality, storage, freight, timing, yield, recovery, and private commercial terms can create differences.
Can the benchmark support supplier negotiations?
Yes. It can help teams test whether a proposed change is directionally consistent with observable market movement.
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Data and Methodology
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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
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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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