Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Producer Sales Value
Potato producer sales value measures the monetary value of growers' potato sales rather than profit. Growers, processors, and lenders can decompose revenue into price, volume, quality, timing, and mix and then compare it with production, storage, and input costs.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato producer sales value is the monetary value of potato sales made by producers under a defined region, crop period, product category, market stage, and currency. The object combines sold quantity and realized price and should retain contract versus open-market mix and quality adjustments.
Use sales value with marketable production, producer prices, sold volume, storage, and input costs. Decompose changes into price, quantity, quality, timing, and product mix rather than treating gross revenue as profit.
Data Module
Potato Producer Sales Value
ObjectMonetary value of producer potato sales
DimensionsRegion, product, crop period, market stage
DriversPrice, sold volume, quality, mix
Commercial useGrower revenue and credit analysis
ComparisonProduction, input costs, storage
WatchpointGross sales value is not farm margin
Analysis
Why this matters
Producer sales value matters because it captures both price and physical marketing performance. A smaller crop can still generate higher sales value if scarcity lifts realized prices, while a good crop can disappoint if quality or pricing is weak.
For credit and sourcing decisions, gross value must be paired with costs and marketable yield. Higher revenue does not necessarily mean stronger cash generation when production, storage, or financing expenses rise at the same time.
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 growers, processors, lenders, economists, and procurement teams that need to understand the value of potatoes sold by producers. Potato producer sales value combines the quantity sold with the prices received under a defined geography, crop period, product category, and market stage. MassGain helps users separate nominal revenue growth from changes in physical volume, product mix, quality, contracts, and regional pricing.
Producer sales value can rise during a smaller crop if prices increase, or fall despite good yields when marketable quality, timing, or realized prices weaken. The figure may also reflect different proportions of processing contracts, fresh-market sales, seed, or specialty products. MassGain places sales value beside production, marketable output, sold quantities, farm prices, storage, and historical trends. Growers can benchmark revenue conditions, processors can assess supplier economics, and lenders can test cash-flow assumptions without treating gross sales as profit. The platform also helps identify whether value is broadly distributed across regions and products or concentrated in a temporary scarcity event. The result is a clearer producer-revenue measure that explains whether change came from price, volume, quality, timing, or mix and how much of that value is likely to persist.
Use Case
A lender sees producer potato sales value reach a record and assumes farm liquidity has improved. MassGain shows that the increase was driven mainly by higher prices during a lower-yield crop, while storage and input expenses also rose. The lender keeps a conservative margin assumption and requests updated cost and marketable-yield data.
FAQs
What does potato producer sales value represent?
It represents the monetary value of defined potato sales made by producers during a stated period.
Can sales value rise when crop volume falls?
Yes. Higher realized prices or a richer product mix can offset lower sold volume.
Does producer sales value equal profit?
No. Production, storage, financing, labor, and other costs must still be deducted.
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