Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Processing Census Data
Potato processing census data provides structural context on establishments, employment, shipments, capital spending, energy, and geography. MassGain connects census measures with known potato plants, capacity, crop supply, and current utilization so broad industrial statistics are not mistaken for practical output.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato processing-census data describes structural industry measures such as establishments, plants, employment, payroll, shipments, production value, capital spending, energy, geography, and industry classification. The market object is the census observation, not practical plant capacity.
Use the data to study long-term processing clusters and investment while reconciling broad classifications with known potato plants, crop supply, capacity, and current utilization.
Data Module
Potato Processing Census Data
Market objectstructural processing-industry measure
Primary measuresestablishments, employment, value
Key dimensionsgeography, classification, year
Commercial useindustry and investment analysis
Controlssuppression, revisions, code changes
Compare withplant capacity and current utilization
Analysis
Why this matters
Establishment counts and shipment value can overstate potato-processing capability when classifications include unrelated prepared-food plants or facilities of very different scale.
Commercial interpretation should treat census data as structural context and validate it against plant-level capacity, product, and crop support.
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 16, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Potato market steady for now; Russia’s smaller crop is the salient risk
Spot prices are flat and USDA terminal reports read ‘market steady,’ but a renewed forecast for a smaller Russian harvest and recent regional harvest stress leave seasonal import timing and storage losses as the key uncertainty.
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 food processors working with potato processing census data to understand the structure and scale of the processing industry. MassGain organizes establishments, plants, employment, payroll, production value, shipments, capital expenditure, energy, geography, industry classification, and reporting year while preserving confidentiality suppression, revisions, and classification changes.
It connects census measures with plant-level capacity, company announcements, crop production, processor intake, finished-product trade, and regional economics. Strategy teams can identify processing clusters and long-term investment trends, finance can benchmark labor and capital intensity, procurement can understand regional raw demand, and analysts can distinguish structural industry change from short-term utilization.
The suite avoids treating establishment counts as active capacity and flags where broad industry codes include non-potato activity. MassGain does not replace official census documentation or infer confidential company data. It provides a governed research framework that makes slow-moving structural statistics comparable with current physical-market evidence and helps users evaluate where processing capability, employment, and investment are expanding or contracting.
Use Case
A strategy team evaluates a new potato-processing region using census employment and shipment value. MassGain shows the apparent cluster includes several non-potato prepared-food plants and adjusts the comparison with known potato capacity and crop supply. The revised analysis prevents an overstated infrastructure case.
FAQs
What can processing census data include?
Establishments, employment, payroll, shipments, value added, capital spending, energy, geography, and classifications may be included.
Why are establishment counts not the same as capacity?
Plants differ in size, product, utilization, operating status, and whether the classification is potato-specific.
How does MassGain handle classification changes?
It preserves historical codes and maps comparable groups with documented limits and source notes.
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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
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.
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