Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Production by Region
Potato production by region compares crop output across specific growing basins rather than relying on a national total. MassGain connects regional production with area, yield, quality, prices, storage, contracts, freight, and processor demand to show whether surplus elsewhere is truly accessible.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato Production by Region compares crop output across specific growing basins rather than relying on a national total. The object should preserve region, crop year, harvested area, yield, variety or sector where available, source, and revision.
Use regional production with prices, storage, contracts, freight, processing demand, and quality to map supply to actual sourcing footprints. A surplus in one basin is not automatically available to another plant if variety, quality, commitments, or delivered economics prevent movement.
Data Module
Potato Regional Production Monitor
Regiongrowing basin
Cropyear and production volume
Driversharvested area and yield
Mixvariety and end use
Accessibilitycontracts, storage, freight
Decision useregional sourcing
Analysis
Why this matters
Stable national production can conceal a meaningful shortage in the basin serving a particular processor or distributor. The commercial question is whether surplus elsewhere is compatible and movable, not whether the country is balanced in aggregate.
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 procurement teams, processors, distributors, and analysts that need to compare potato production across specific growing regions. Regional production data shows where crop volume is concentrated and whether the areas serving a plant, supplier, or customer are expanding, stable, or declining. MassGain organizes production by region, crop year, area, yield, variety or sector where available, source, and revision and connects it with prices, storage, processing demand, and trade.
A stable national total can conceal a material shortfall in one sourcing basin and surplus elsewhere. The surplus may not be usable if freight, variety, quality, contracts, or plant specifications prevent movement. MassGain helps users map production to actual commercial exposure, compare neighboring regions, and assess whether substitution is physically and economically practical. Procurement can protect vulnerable plants, distributors can redirect origins, and analysts can distinguish localized pressure from broad market tightness. The result is a geographic production view that supports sourcing and forecasting decisions without assuming every tonne in the country belongs to one common supply pool.
Use Case
A national buyer sees total production stable, but MassGain identifies a shortfall in the basin serving its highest-volume supplier and surplus in a distant region. Procurement models freight and specification compatibility and secures partial replacement rather than treating national balance as adequate coverage for every plant.
FAQs
Why analyze potato production by region?
Plants and buyers depend on specific growing basins whose crop outcomes can differ from national totals.
Can surplus production move freely between regions?
Not always; variety, quality, contracts, freight, storage, and plant suitability may limit substitution.
How does MassGain map regional production?
It connects output with area, yield, product type, prices, storage, trade, demand, and sourcing footprints.
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Data and Methodology
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