Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Pricing
Potato pricing spans farmgate, spot, wholesale, contract, and delivered markets that can move differently. MassGain keeps product, region, quality, timing, freight, and market stage visible so buyers can identify the benchmark that actually matches their exposure.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato pricing data organizes the physical and contractual price formation chain from farmgate and free-buy markets through wholesale, delivered, and processor purchase values. The market object is the matched price under a defined product, region, unit, quality, timing, and delivery basis.
Use the data to validate quotes, build contract benchmarks, and explain price transmission with crop, storage, freight, quality, and demand. Keep processed-product costs separate from raw-potato references unless the conversion economics are explicitly modeled.
Data Module
Potato Pricing Framework
Market objectmatched potato price
Primary measuresprice, range, spread, change
Key dimensionsregion, product, quality, market stage
Commercial usesupplier and contract benchmarking
Driverscrop, storage, freight, demand
Compare withenterprise purchase and delivered cost
Analysis
Why this matters
Potato pricing is fragmented because the underlying physical commodity is not one standardized instrument. Basis can be larger than the headline market move when quality, freight, storage obligations, or end-use requirements differ.
Commercial interpretation should identify the relevant market stage and specification first. The strongest benchmark is the one that explains the buyer's actual purchase, not the one with the broadest headline.
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 page is for procurement and market-intelligence teams that need a practical potato pricing framework across physical markets, contracts, supplier quotes, and internal cost models. MassGain separates farmgate, free-buy, shipping-point, terminal, delivered, processor, and finished-product evidence and preserves the product, region, variety, grade, package, unit, timing, and delivery basis behind each observation.
Users can see how current market values relate to crop conditions, storage, contracted coverage, processing demand, freight, quality, and historical ranges. Procurement can validate supplier pricing, design benchmark baskets, and prepare contract resets; finance can convert market movement into purchase-mix-weighted budgets; analysts can measure basis and price transmission. MassGain does not treat a generic potato price as interchangeable with the delivered cost of fries, flakes, or other processed products. It provides the market structure needed to understand where price is actually formed.
Use Case
A food company sees three different potato price references in a supplier negotiation. MassGain classifies each as farmgate, wholesale, or delivered, normalizes product and unit, and shows which reference best matches the contract exposure before calculating the supported change.
FAQs
What does potato pricing include?
It includes physical price observations, contract formulas, quality and freight adjustments, market stages, and the basis connecting them.
Why do potato prices differ so much?
Region, product, quality, package, timing, storage, freight, and buyer-seller structure create distinct physical markets.
Can MassGain benchmark a supplier price?
Yes, by matching the supplier's product and terms to the closest relevant physical-market evidence and explaining the remaining basis.
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Data and Methodology
Professional market-data standards
MassGain is building transparent public market infrastructure. Each live metric will identify its date, unit, coverage, methodology, and source basis.
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
MassGain figures are informational reference values and do not constitute executable bids, offers, settlements, or guarantees that a transaction can occur at the displayed value.
No individualized advice
Content and data are provided for informational and analytical purposes and do not constitute financial, investment, legal, trading, or individualized procurement advice.
Independent publication
Certain observations may be derived from USDA reports. MassGain is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USDA.
Commercial use and licensing
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