Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Quarterly Stocks Report
A potato quarterly stocks report measures stored inventory at defined dates and geographies, but commercial meaning depends on quality, commitments, end use, and storage condition. MassGain connects official or reported stocks with crop size, withdrawals, processing demand, prices, and merchantability so users can interpret the remaining supply more accurately.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato quarterly-stocks-report data describes reported potato inventory held at a defined reference date by the geography and product categories available in the source. The market object is the stock position segmented where possible by region, crop use, storage class, crop year, and commercial status.
Use the data to compare beginning and ending inventory with production, processor use, fresh movement, shipments, exports, quality, and seasonal disappearance. Distinguish nominal stocks from specification-ready, uncommitted, and geographically reachable supply before using the report for procurement or late-season coverage decisions.
Data Module
Potato Quarterly Stocks Report
Market objectreported stored potato inventory
Primary measurestocks at reference date
Key dimensionsregion, crop use, crop year, storage
Commercial uselate-season supply assessment
Availability filtersquality, contracts, ownership, location
Compare withdisappearance, prices, processing, trade
Analysis
Why this matters
A large stocks number can coexist with tight commercial supply when the inventory is seed, lower quality, contractually committed, or outside the buyer's sourcing radius. The headline total therefore measures physical inventory more directly than open-market depth.
Commercial interpretation should focus on composition and disappearance. Stocks become more informative when users know what remains, where it sits, how fast it is moving, and which buyers can actually use it.
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, growers, lenders, and market analysts that need to interpret a potato quarterly stocks report. Quarterly stocks show potatoes held at a defined reporting date, but the commercial meaning depends on geography, crop use, ownership, storage condition, contract status, and the pace of disappearance. MassGain connects the official release with the physical market behind the total.
The suite can organize stocks by region, province or state, product class, storage type, and crop year where available and compare them with production, prior-quarter stocks, processor use, shipments, exports, prices, and quality. Procurement can see whether inventory is likely specification-ready and accessible. Processors can estimate late-season coverage. Growers can assess remaining competition. Lenders can evaluate collateral and marketing pace. Analysts can distinguish a large nominal stock from a supply pool already contracted, deteriorating, or geographically stranded.
MassGain does not treat every reported tonne as open-market availability or guarantee official data completeness. It provides source, revision, and historical context and converts the release into a balance-sheet view of what remains, where it sits, how quickly it is moving, and which buyers can actually use it.
Use Case
A quarterly report shows national potato stocks above last year. MassGain reveals the increase is concentrated in seed and fresh inventory outside a processor’s sourcing radius, while high-solids processing stocks are lower. Procurement maintains late-season coverage despite the positive headline.
FAQs
What does a quarterly potato stocks report measure?
It measures reported potato inventory held at a specified date under the source’s definitions.
Do reported stocks equal available supply?
No. Contracts, quality, product use, location, ownership, and storage condition limit availability.
How does MassGain interpret the release?
It connects stocks with production, disappearance, prices, processing, trade, quality, and historical revisions.
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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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