Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Soil Health Metrics
The potato soil health metrics view organizes physical, chemical, and biological indicators by field, sampling date, method, rotation, weather, and crop history. Growers, lenders, and buyers can compare consistent trends with yield stability and quality instead of drawing conclusions from one isolated soil test.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato soil-health-metric data tracks indicators such as organic matter, aggregate stability, infiltration, compaction, respiration, pH, salinity, nutrient balance, erosion risk, and biology by field and sampling date. The market object is the soil trend linked to rotation, weather, inputs, yield, quality, and field history.
Use the data to compare consistent measurements over time, identify field-specific resilience or production risks, and connect soil condition with contracted supply reliability. Preserve method and sampling context before comparing farms.
Data Module
Potato Soil Health Metrics
Market objectfield soil-condition trend
Primary measuresphysical, chemical, biological indicators
Key dimensionsfield, date, method, rotation
Commercial useproduction and resilience analysis
Contextweather, inputs, yield, quality
Compare withhistorical field performance
Analysis
Why this matters
One soil-health number can be misleading because indicators respond differently to sampling, weather, soil type, and crop stage. Trend consistency is more informative than an isolated test.
Commercial interpretation should connect soil changes with yield stability and quality rather than assume every favorable metric produces immediate commercial benefit.
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 potato growers, producer groups, agronomists, lenders, and buyers that need soil health metrics for production and risk planning. Soil health can influence water retention, nutrient cycling, erosion, disease pressure, trafficability, yield stability, and long-term productivity. MassGain helps users organize soil indicators alongside field history, crop rotation, weather, inputs, yield, quality, and market value.
The suite can track organic matter, aggregate stability, infiltration, compaction, respiration, pH, salinity, nutrient balance, erosion risk, and biological indicators by field and sampling date. Growers can compare trends rather than isolated test results. Lenders can assess resilience and capital needs. Procurement can understand whether soil-related risk may affect contracted supply or quality. Market intelligence can distinguish a broad regional production concern from one field-specific issue.
No single soil-health score is universally valid, and methods vary. MassGain does not provide agronomic prescriptions or laboratory certification. It provides the historical and commercial framework needed to preserve sampling context, compare consistent measures, and connect soil conditions with yield reliability, storage quality, and sourcing risk.
Use Case
A grower sees declining yield stability on one potato rotation. MassGain combines compaction, organic matter, infiltration, weather, traffic, and yield history and shows wet-season harvest traffic is the main recurring risk. The grower changes field sequencing and the lender adjusts the improvement plan.
FAQs
Which soil health metrics matter for potatoes?
Organic matter, compaction, infiltration, aggregation, pH, salinity, nutrients, biology, and erosion risk may matter.
Why track trends instead of one test?
Sampling methods, weather, field variability, and crop timing can distort isolated measurements.
How does MassGain connect soil with markets?
It links field metrics with yield, quality, weather, contracts, supply reliability, and commercial value.
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Data and Methodology
Professional market-data standards
MassGain is building transparent public market infrastructure. Each live metric will identify its date, unit, coverage, methodology, and source basis.
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.
Commercial use and licensing
Public display does not grant rights to reproduce, redistribute, republish, or incorporate MassGain indices or references into commercial products or contracts without authorization.