Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Protein Prices
Potato protein prices vary sharply by food, feed, and specialty grade, concentration, functionality, certification, plant, and delivery basis. MassGain connects qualified protein supply with starch campaigns, drying capacity, crop conditions, energy, inventory, competing proteins, and customer approvals.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato-protein-price data records specification-matched food, feed, and specialty grades by protein concentration, solubility, digestibility, flavor, color, certification, package, plant, origin, currency, and delivery terms. The market object is qualified protein supply, often linked to potato-starch processing campaigns.
Use the data to compare concentration-adjusted and delivered cost and to connect price with starch-plant utilization, drying capacity, crop conditions, energy, inventories, competing proteins, and customer approvals. Keep food- and feed-grade markets separate.
Data Module
Potato Protein Prices
Market objectqualified potato protein grade
Primary measurespecification-adjusted delivered price
Key dimensionsgrade, concentration, plant, origin
Commercial useingredient sourcing and benchmarking
Supply contextstarch campaigns, drying, inventory
Compare withcompeting proteins and qualified alternatives
Analysis
Why this matters
Food-grade potato protein can tighten while feed-grade material remains abundant because approvals, functionality, and plant capability restrict substitution. Category volume therefore overstates the usable supply pool.
Commercial interpretation should compare price per functional or protein unit and map the grade back to producing starch plants. An upstream plant outage can matter more than broad potato production.
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 ingredient procurement teams, food and feed manufacturers, finance leaders, and market analysts that need reliable potato protein prices. Potato protein varies by concentration, solubility, digestibility, flavor, color, food or feed grade, certification, package, and application. Supply is often tied to potato-starch campaigns, so prices can tighten when suitable raw supply or starch-plant utilization falls.
MassGain organizes quotes and transactions by grade, plant, origin, protein basis, package, volume, currency, and delivery terms. It connects values with starch production, crop conditions, energy, drying capacity, inventories, competing proteins, trade, and customer approvals. Procurement can compare concentration-adjusted and delivered cost. R&D can identify where functional substitutes are realistic. Finance can model contract and inventory exposure. Analysts can distinguish food-grade scarcity from ample feed-grade supply.
MassGain does not make nutritional claims, certify grade, or provide executable quotes. It provides a transparent specification-level benchmark that shows why two potato proteins carry different values and whether movement is supported by upstream production, conversion capacity, demand, or logistics.
Use Case
A plant-based food producer receives a 14% increase on potato protein. MassGain shows food-grade capacity is constrained after a starch-plant outage, while feed-grade prices are stable and irrelevant to the application. Procurement secures a qualified secondary food-grade source and accepts only the supported temporary premium.
FAQs
What determines potato protein prices?
Grade, concentration, functionality, plant, starch production, energy, package, certification, demand, freight, and trade determine them.
Why compare price by protein content?
Products with different concentrations can require different usage rates and have different effective costs.
How does MassGain separate food and feed markets?
It filters specifications, approvals, plants, applications, capacity, and comparable transactions.
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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.
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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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