Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Stocks Revision History
Potato stocks revision history preserves each published estimate and subsequent change by region, crop year, and reporting period. MassGain helps analysts identify whether revisions reflect new survey responses, methodology, classification, or corrected data and prevents later numbers from silently replacing what decision-makers actually knew at the time.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato stocks-revision-history data preserves preliminary, revised, and final inventory estimates for the same reference period. The market object is the sequence of published vintages with geography, product scope, release date, revision date, old value, new value, and stated reason where available.
Use the data to measure revision size and direction, recreate the information available at earlier decision dates, and test whether procurement or forecasting conclusions depend on later data. Connect revisions with source notes, production, disappearance, and market reaction rather than silently replacing the original release.
Data Module
Potato Stocks Revision History
Market objectversioned stocks estimate
Primary measuresoriginal and revised values
Key dimensionsreference period, release date, geography
Commercial useforecast and decision audit
Governancesource notes and vintage preservation
Compare withreal-time expectations and later outcomes
Analysis
Why this matters
Revision history matters because final data can make historical decisions look easier than they were. A model backtested on revised stocks may benefit from information that market participants did not possess in real time.
Commercial interpretation should distinguish new physical information from statistical correction. Large or systematic revisions also reduce confidence in using the preliminary series without wider uncertainty.
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 analysts, procurement teams, processors, and researchers that need to understand revisions to potato stocks data. Initial inventory estimates may change as more respondents report, classifications are corrected, late records arrive, or methodology improves. MassGain preserves each published vintage so users can see what was known at the time and how the official view evolved.
The suite can organize original, revised, and final stocks by geography, product, crop year, and reporting date, along with publication dates and stated reasons. Analysts can measure revision size, direction, and bias. Procurement can identify whether past market decisions relied on data later changed materially. Forecasters can train and backtest models using information actually available at each vintage rather than revised hindsight. Processors and lenders can understand whether an apparent inventory shock is new market information or a statistical correction.
MassGain does not challenge official revisions without evidence or assume the latest figure is error-free. It provides a version-controlled research framework that links revisions with production, disappearance, prices, source notes, and market reactions. This helps users select the appropriate vintage for real-time analysis, historical study, and forecast evaluation.
Use Case
An analyst backtests a late-season price model using final stocks data and obtains unrealistically strong accuracy. MassGain restores the preliminary vintages available on each forecast date, revealing that large later revisions explained much of the apparent performance.
FAQs
Why are potato stocks revised?
Late responses, corrected classifications, updated surveys, methodological changes, and reconciliation can cause revisions.
Which vintage should a forecast use?
Real-time backtests should use the data vintage actually available when the forecast was made.
How does MassGain preserve revision history?
It stores every release with publication date, reference period, change, source note, and linked market data.
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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.
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