Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Price Floor Agreement
A potato price floor agreement establishes a minimum eligible settlement price for defined volume and conditions. Procurement, growers, and finance teams can test downside protection against benchmark, quality, yield, deductions, and any upside-sharing tradeoff.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato price-floor-agreement data records a minimum eligible settlement price, protected volume, benchmark, observation period, quality terms, deductions, and any upside-sharing conditions. The market object is the contracted downside protection for a specified crop and delivery obligation.
Use the data to compare floor economics with fixed, formula, and open-market structures and to test how often the floor would bind under different crop and price scenarios.
Data Module
Potato Price Floor Agreement
Market objectminimum-price contract protection
Primary measuresfloor level and protected volume
Key dimensionsbenchmark, volume, quality, crop year
Commercial usedownside price-protection analysis
Conditionseligibility, deductions, upside sharing
Compare withopen market and fixed price
Analysis
Why this matters
A floor protects price, not yield, quality, or guaranteed volume. Grower revenue can still weaken if the crop fails to meet eligible tonnes or specifications.
Commercial interpretation should evaluate how much physical production is actually protected and what upside or flexibility is surrendered in return.
Signal 01
Usable Crop Uncertainty Index
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UCUI is designed to analyze potato-industry publications and data signals across regions, varieties, weather, disease, storage, supply, and demand.
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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.
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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
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+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
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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
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Overview
Who is this for?
This page is for procurement and market-intelligence teams that need to evaluate a potato price floor agreement. A floor establishes a minimum contract or settlement price, protecting growers or suppliers when the referenced market falls below a defined level. MassGain helps users quantify that protection and understand the cost, volume, quality, and timing conditions attached to it.
The suite can organize floor level, eligible tonnes, benchmark, observation period, crop year, quality standards, premiums, deductions, and any upside-sharing or fee. Procurement can compare a floor with fixed, formula, and open-market structures. Growers can estimate downside revenue protection. Finance can model budget and contingent payments. Analysts can test how often the floor would have applied historically and whether the benchmark matches the contract exposure.
A floor does not guarantee profitability if yield or quality fails, and it may be paired with a lower upside or other concession. MassGain does not price derivatives or interpret legal terms. It provides a transparent scenario framework that helps users understand who bears downside risk, when the floor activates, and how it affects sustainable potato supply and contract economics.
Use Case
A processor offers growers a minimum price in exchange for a share of upside above a benchmark. MassGain backtests crop years, applies quality and volume conditions, and shows the floor materially reduces downside while the upside concession remains acceptable to both parties.
FAQs
What is a potato price floor?
It is a minimum eligible contract or settlement price that applies when the defined reference falls below the threshold.
What can limit floor protection?
Volume caps, quality, delivery, benchmark basis, crop failure, deductions, and eligibility conditions may limit it.
How does MassGain evaluate the floor?
It models historical and forward price, yield, quality, volume, benchmark, and payment scenarios.
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Data and Methodology
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