Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Supplier Rejection Benchmark
A potato supplier rejection benchmark measures failed loads, lots, or finished products by supplier, plant, specification, reason, and period. MassGain adds crop and storage context so procurement can distinguish broad seasonal quality pressure from supplier-specific execution and compare suppliers on usable delivered value.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato supplier rejection benchmark measures how often delivered loads, lots, or finished products fail agreed specifications and categorizes the failures by reason, plant, period, and product. Relevant causes can include defects, low solids, fry color, size distribution, temperature, packaging, or other quality criteria.
MassGain adds crop, storage, variety, and regional supply context so procurement can distinguish broad seasonal quality pressure from supplier-specific execution problems.
Data Module
Supplier rejection context
Rejection ratefailed loads or lots versus receipts
Reason codequality, specification, or packaging cause
Plant and productsource and affected item
Market contextcrop and storage conditions
Economic impactwaste, replacement, and freight
Decision usescorecard, corrective action, and allocation
Analysis
Why this matters
Rejection rates should be interpreted against the market environment. If several suppliers sourcing the same basin experience a quality problem, part of the deterioration may be crop-driven; if peers remain stable, the supplier's grading, storage, or process control deserves more scrutiny.
The commercial measure is usable delivered value, not simply case price. Rejections can erase apparent savings through waste, emergency freight, substitutions, and service failures.
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 teams that need to compare suppliers not only by quoted price and fill rate, but by how consistently their potato products meet agreed specifications. A potato supplier rejection benchmark tracks rejected loads, production lots, or finished-product shipments using comparable reasons such as defects, low solids, poor fry color, short cut distribution, temperature failure, packaging damage, or out-of-tolerance quality. MassGain’s potato data suite adds the regional crop, storage, variety, and supply context needed to determine whether rejection performance reflects a difficult market environment or a supplier-specific execution problem.
That distinction matters because rejection rates can rise across an entire region when storage quality deteriorates, yet one supplier may still outperform peers through stronger sourcing, grading, and inventory management. Conversely, a low opening case price can become expensive when repeated rejects create emergency freight, substitutions, restaurant shortages, inspection labor, or waste. MassGain helps procurement normalize supplier performance against the physical conditions each plant faced and connect rejection outcomes with relevant potato benchmarks and availability signals.
The benchmark supports supplier scorecards, tenders, claims discussions, volume allocation, and contract-quality provisions. Buyers can combine MassGain’s market evidence with their own inspection, product-test, service, and cost data to calculate rejection frequency and economic impact. MassGain does not replace quality assurance or certify products. It provides the independent market context needed to distinguish unavoidable crop pressure from preventable supplier underperformance and to compare suppliers on usable delivered value.
Use Case
A national QSR compares two frozen-fry suppliers during a season of uneven storage quality. Supplier A has the lower case price but records more rejected lots for dark fry color and short cut distribution, causing emergency transfers between distribution centers. MassGain shows both suppliers sourced from regions facing similar crop pressure, so the performance gap cannot be explained by the market alone. Procurement calculates the cost of rejects, replacement freight, and lost usable yield, then shifts incremental volume to Supplier B while requiring Supplier A to meet a corrective-action threshold before recovering share.
FAQs
What is a potato supplier rejection benchmark?
It is a consistent comparison of rejected loads, lots, or finished products by supplier, plant, specification, reason, period, and economic impact.
Why compare rejection rates with crop and storage conditions?
Regional quality pressure may affect several suppliers, so market context helps separate broad crop risk from supplier-specific execution.
Can MassGain replace receiving inspection or quality assurance?
No. It complements internal QA data with independent potato-market, crop, storage, and availability context.
Put this market intelligence to work
Get historical data, regional detail, benchmarks, alerts, exports, and API access tailored to your procurement
and market-analysis needs.
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.
Commercial use and licensing
Public display does not grant rights to reproduce, redistribute, republish, or incorporate MassGain indices or references into commercial products or contracts without authorization.