Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Storage Stocks by Month
Potato storage stocks by month shows how stored inventory changes through the crop year. MassGain compares monthly stocks with historical drawdown, quality, processor usage, shipments, prices, commitments, and new-crop timing so buyers can identify late-season coverage risk.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato Storage Stocks by Month tracks stored inventory across successive months of the crop year. The object should preserve region, crop year, product or sector, holder category, reporting date, and quality context.
Use monthly stocks to compare current drawdown with historical seasonal curves and to identify where usable inventory is depleting faster or slower than expected. Pair the series with processor usage, shipments, quality, prices, and new-crop timing so gross tonnes are not mistaken for late-season coverage.
Data Module
Monthly Potato Storage Monitor
Monthreporting date
Regionstorage market
Stocksreported inventory
Qualityage and usability
Drawdownhistorical seasonal comparison
Decision uselate-season coverage
Analysis
Why this matters
Monthly inventory can track history in gross tonnes while usable quality deteriorates faster, or fall rapidly because processors accelerate usage rather than final demand strengthening. The important signal is the path of accessible, specification-compliant stocks into the crop transition.
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 distributors, wholesalers, processors, storage operators, and finance teams that need potato storage stocks by month. Monthly inventory data shows how stored potatoes enter, remain in, and leave commercial storage across the crop year. MassGain connects each monthly observation with regional prices, shipment pace, storage quality, processor demand, contract commitments, and new-crop timing.
The monthly pattern matters because a comfortable annual stock figure can deteriorate quickly during late storage. Drawdown may accelerate, usable quality may fall faster than gross tonnes, or inventory may become concentrated in products that do not match buyer needs. MassGain helps users compare current monthly stocks with historical seasonal curves and identify whether changes reflect normal movement, delayed sales, processor intake, exports, or quality loss. Distributors can adjust purchasing and branch inventory, processors can assess raw-material coverage, and lenders can update collateral and working-capital assumptions. The result is a time-based inventory view that shows how many usable potatoes are likely to remain at each stage of the season and which months carry the greatest replacement-cost or service risk.
Use Case
Monthly storage stocks track history through January, then fall faster than normal as processor usage rises and quality deteriorates. MassGain identifies a likely April gap for one regional wholesaler. The buyer secures limited March coverage and leaves earlier months unchanged rather than overstocking immediately.
FAQs
What does monthly potato storage data show?
It shows stored inventory levels and drawdown across successive reporting months.
Why can usable stocks decline faster than tonnes?
Quality, shrink, commitments, variety mix, and storage age can reduce commercially accessible inventory.
How does MassGain compare monthly stocks?
It aligns current inventory with historical seasonality, prices, demand, quality, shipments, and crop-transition timing.
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Data and Methodology
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