Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Supplier Concentration Dashboard
A potato supplier concentration dashboard reveals dependence on processors, plants, growing regions, specifications, and logistics corridors beneath the vendor list. MassGain overlays crop, storage, availability, and capacity signals so procurement can see where several suppliers still share the same physical point of failure.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato supplier concentration dashboard maps dependence on processors, plants, growing regions, product specifications, and logistics corridors. It should reveal underlying shared exposure rather than simply count the number of suppliers under contract.
MassGain overlays regional benchmarks, crop and storage risk, availability, and processing-capacity signals on the buyer's supplier network. Procurement can see where nominal diversity still depends on the same basin or plant system and where alternate capacity is truly independent.
Data Module
Supplier concentration context
Supplier sharevolume by processor parent
Plant sharedependence by production site
Regional overlapcommon potato-sourcing basins
Specification overlapconstrained product requirements
Alternate capacityindependent backup availability
Decision usediversification and continuity planning
Analysis
Why this matters
Multiple suppliers do not guarantee diversification if their plants rely on the same growing basin, storage network, or critical variety. A disruption can therefore hit several contracts at once even when procurement has a broad vendor list.
MassGain helps expose correlated dependency. The analytical question is whether backup sources fail under the same scenario as the primary network; if they do, nominal supplier diversity provides much less resilience than it appears.
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 10, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Potato prices quiet at $30/cwt as regional harvest damage buzzes beneath the surface
Market indicators are stable, but reporting from Europe and select growing areas shows real, localized crop stress — a reminder that steady headline prices can mask uneven physical risk.
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 is for QSR and restaurant procurement leaders that need a clear enterprise view of how much potato volume depends on a small number of suppliers, processing plants, growing regions, or logistics corridors. A potato supplier concentration dashboard turns contract and demand data into an exposure map, then overlays MassGain’s regional benchmarks, crop outlooks, storage risk, processing-capacity signals, and supply availability. The result shows where nominal supplier diversity may still conceal a common physical dependency.
A restaurant system may have contracts with several suppliers but remain concentrated if their plants draw from the same potato basin, use the same critical variety, depend on one cold-storage network, or serve the same distribution centers. MassGain helps teams view concentration by supplier parent, plant, sourcing region, product specification, delivery period, and share of system demand. Scenario views can show how a crop shortfall, plant outage, allocation, or freight disruption would affect restaurants and whether approved alternates have enough time and capacity to respond.
The dashboard supports enterprise sourcing strategy, continuity planning, tender design, board or risk reporting, and decisions about supplier qualification. Procurement can combine MassGain’s external physical-market layer with internal contracts, nominations, inventory, and service data. MassGain does not determine the chain’s acceptable concentration threshold or guarantee alternate capacity. It provides a shared, decision-ready view that helps leadership distinguish true diversification from contractual headcount and target mitigation where a single failure could create the largest operational impact.
Use Case
A 2,000-location restaurant group believes its fry supply is diversified across four processors. The MassGain dashboard reveals that three plants rely on the same growing basin and jointly serve 68% of winter demand. A stress scenario shows a storage-quality problem would hit all three simultaneously, while an approved plant in another region has limited unused capacity. Procurement shifts part of the next tender, reserves a seasonal option with the alternate plant, and prioritizes product trials for a second specification-compatible source.
FAQs
What does a potato supplier concentration dashboard measure?
It can measure exposure by supplier, parent company, plant, sourcing region, product, delivery period, logistics corridor, and share of demand.
Why can multiple suppliers still create concentrated risk?
Their plants may depend on the same growing basin, variety, storage network, freight route, or processing constraint.
How can teams reduce potato supplier concentration?
They can diversify plants and regions, qualify specification-compatible alternatives, reserve contingent capacity, and redesign contract or allocation structures.
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