Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Storage Supply Air Temperature
Potato storage supply air temperature is the temperature of air delivered into the storage pile or ventilation system. Interpreting it with tuber and return-air temperature, storage stage, variety, and end use helps operators connect confirmed deviations with quality, inventory value, and replacement risk.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato storage supply air temperature is the temperature of air delivered into the storage pile or ventilation system. It influences cooling, curing, humidity, condensation, sugar development, disease pressure, and the temperature relationship between air and tubers.
Use the data in context with return-air and tuber temperature, variety, storage stage, outside conditions, and intended end use. Linking confirmed temperature trends with quality, inventory age, plant schedules, and replacement markets helps determine whether an operational deviation has commercial significance.
Data Module
Supply air temperature context
Supply airtemperature entering the pile
Tuber temperaturestored crop condition
Return airtemperature leaving the storage mass
Storage stagecuring, cooling, holding, or warming
End usefresh or processing specification
Decision usequality monitoring and inventory planning
Analysis
Why this matters
The same supply-air temperature can mean different things at different stages of storage. A setting suitable for pull-down may be inappropriate late in storage or for a fry variety sensitive to sugar development.
Commercial risk appears when temperature behavior begins to threaten usable quality while replacement supply is scarce. The value of the metric is therefore in its relationship to crop condition and market exposure, not in a universal target.
Signal 01
Usable Crop Uncertainty Index
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UCUI is designed to analyze potato-industry publications and data signals across regions, varieties, weather, disease, storage, supply, and demand.
WeatherHigh
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StorageMedium
SupplyMedium
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A daily editorial synthesis of physical potato data, crop signals, market reporting, and what participants should watch next.
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Potato prices quiet at $30/cwt as regional harvest damage buzzes beneath the surface
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Signal 02
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Core Russet Carton Median
312.45 USD/MT
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Series window45 days
Current public coverageCore russet cartons
Primary source basisQualifying USDA physical rows
UnitUSD per metric tonne
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Signal 03
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Russet Burbank — U.S. Midsize
305 USD/MT
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ProductRusset Burbank
SpecificationU.S. midsize, 40–70 count
Reference typePhysical spot benchmark
StatusIn development
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Overview
Who is this for?
This page is for storage operators, growers, processors, engineers, and quality teams monitoring the temperature of air delivered into a potato storage system. Potato storage supply air temperature influences cooling, curing, ventilation, humidity, condensation risk, sugar development, disease pressure, and the temperature gradient between air and tubers. MassGain’s potato data suite adds storage-age, crop-quality, regional price, inventory, and replacement-market context to this operating measure.
The commercial significance of a temperature reading depends on variety, storage phase, pile condition, intended end use, outside weather, and the relationship between supply, return, and tuber temperatures. A reading that is ordinary during pull-down may be inappropriate later in storage. MassGain helps users connect confirmed operational trends with quality outcomes, usable inventory, plant schedules, and market exposure.
MassGain does not prescribe temperature settings, monitor equipment, or replace storage and engineering expertise. It provides the external physical-market framework needed to understand when an operational deviation is likely to remain manageable and when it could threaten inventory value, processing recovery, contract performance, or replacement cost. The page supports exception monitoring, quality review, inventory planning, and lender or processor risk discussions.
Use Case
A processor notices one store’s supply air remains materially colder than the tuber pile during late storage. Quality teams confirm rising sugar risk in a sensitive fry variety. MassGain shows replacement supply is tightening regionally, so operations adjusts the storage plan, redirects vulnerable lots to earlier production, and reserves limited replacement volume.
FAQs
Why does potato storage supply air temperature matter?
It affects cooling, humidity, condensation, sugar, disease, shrink, and the quality of stored potatoes.
Can one temperature target apply throughout storage?
No. Variety, storage stage, pile condition, end use, and outside conditions change the appropriate operating context.
How does MassGain add value to temperature data?
It connects operational trends with inventory quality, regional prices, plant exposure, and replacement availability.
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