Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Supplier Financial Health
Potato supplier financial health combines conventional credit indicators with the physical-market pressures a supplier actually faces. Procurement teams can map plants and sourcing regions to raw-potato cost, crop quality, utilization, contract resets, and liquidity to distinguish temporary margin pressure from continuity risk.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato supplier-financial-health data combines conventional credit indicators with potato-specific operating exposure such as raw-material coverage, plant utilization, crop-region dependence, working-capital timing, and contract pass-through. The market object is the supplier's ability to continue delivering under current physical-market conditions.
Use the data to map each supplier's plants and sourcing regions to crop quality, benchmark prices, storage risk, capacity, and customer-reset timing. This helps procurement distinguish temporary margin pressure from a broader liquidity or continuity problem.
Data Module
Potato Supplier Financial Health
Market objectsupplier continuity risk
Primary measuresliquidity and operating exposure
Key dimensionsplants, regions, contracts
Cost driversraw potatoes, storage, freight, energy
Commercial usesupplier-risk review
Compare withcoverage, capacity, pass-through timing
Analysis
Why this matters
A supplier can look healthy on historical financials yet become stressed when raw-potato costs rise before customer contracts reset or when poor crop quality reduces plant recovery. Conversely, a temporary input spike may be manageable for a well-covered processor.
The useful signal is the interaction between balance-sheet resilience and physical exposure. Procurement should avoid treating every price request as distress, but should escalate when market pressure aligns with weak liquidity, concentrated sourcing, and limited pass-through.
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, distributors, restaurant systems, and risk leaders that need to assess whether a potato supplier can remain financially and operationally reliable. Supplier financial health includes liquidity, leverage, working capital, payment behavior, customer concentration, raw-material coverage, plant utilization, and exposure to crop, storage, energy, and freight conditions. MassGain adds the potato-market context often missing from a conventional supplier review.
A supplier may look stable historically but face pressure when raw-potato costs rise before customer contracts reset, when storage quality reduces recovery, or when one plant depends on expensive supplemental supply. Conversely, a temporary price spike may not threaten a well-covered supplier with strong contracts and liquidity. MassGain maps supplier plants and sourcing regions to benchmarks, crop conditions, capacity, availability, and contract timing. Procurement can identify where contingency planning is warranted, finance can distinguish market pressure from company-specific weakness, and leadership can evaluate whether a higher price request reflects genuine stress. MassGain does not provide audited financials or a formal credit rating. It supplies the external market evidence needed to ask better questions and understand how physical potato exposure may affect supplier resilience and continuity.
Use Case
A QSR reviews a processor requesting faster payment terms. MassGain shows the supplier faces a temporary working-capital squeeze at one plant because raw-material costs rose before customer resets. Procurement negotiates limited support tied to coverage and reporting rather than treating the issue as systemwide insolvency.
FAQs
What indicators matter for supplier financial health?
Liquidity, leverage, working capital, payment behavior, contracts, plant utilization, and market exposure are important.
How can potato markets affect a supplier?
Raw-material inflation, quality loss, capacity pressure, and delayed customer pass-through can strain cash flow.
Does MassGain provide a credit rating?
No. It adds market and operational context to financial and supplier-risk analysis.
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Data and Methodology
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