Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Stocks by Variety
Potato stocks by variety measures stored inventory by specific potato genetics, region, crop year, and reporting date. MassGain connects varietal stocks with quality, commitments, storage age, prices, demand, and substitute options so users can identify specification-level scarcity before total inventory tightens.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato Stocks by Variety measures stored inventory by potato variety, region, crop year, and reporting date. Variety detail is commercially important because fries, chips, fresh, starch, seed, and specialty products require different physical and processing traits.
Use the data with quality, storage age, contracts, prices, demand, and substitute-variety options. A comfortable total stock position can conceal rapid drawdown in the exact variety needed for a premium or specification-sensitive program.
Data Module
Potato Variety Stocks Monitor
Varietystored genetics
Regioninventory location
Volumeremaining stocks
Qualityage and condition
Coveragecommitments and demand
Decision usevarietal substitution planning
Analysis
Why this matters
Varietal scarcity can emerge long before total potatoes become scarce. A substitute may exist physically but require trials, different processing settings, or customer approval. The market should therefore price and manage the inventory that can satisfy the specific end use.
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, seed planners, and market analysts that need to understand how stored potato inventory is distributed among varieties. MassGain helps users connect variety-level stocks with intended end use, crop year, storage condition, contract status, regional location, and historical drawdown. That detail matters because a comfortable total inventory can conceal a shortage of the exact variety needed for fries, chips, starch, seed, or another specification-sensitive market.
MassGain allows teams to distinguish gross tonnes from commercially usable stocks. A variety may be plentiful but already committed, held too far from the buyer, or deteriorating under storage conditions that reduce solids, fry color, or shelf life. Procurement can identify where alternate varieties may work, processors can protect premium lots for the products that require them, and growers can evaluate marketing opportunities as varietal supplies tighten. By comparing current holdings with prior seasons, prices, contracts, and demand, MassGain turns variety-level inventory into an actionable view of substitution risk, future availability, and likely pricing pressure rather than treating all stored potatoes as interchangeable.
Use Case
A fry processor sees total regional stocks near average but MassGain shows its preferred long-tuber variety is drawing down rapidly while a compatible variety remains plentiful. The company reserves premium lots for long-cut products, expands trials of the substitute on flexible lines, and avoids paying a scarcity premium across its entire raw-material book.
FAQs
Why track potato stocks by variety?
Different varieties serve distinct products and have different quality, storage, yield, and customer requirements.
Can one variety replace another?
Sometimes, but plant trials, specifications, availability, contracts, and customer approval may limit substitution.
How does MassGain make varietal stocks useful?
It connects inventory with region, quality, commitments, drawdown, prices, demand, and practical substitute options.
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Data and Methodology
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Timing and revisions
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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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