Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Supplier Sustainability Scorecard
A potato supplier sustainability scorecard organizes environmental, social, governance, quality, service, and resilience measures under a consistent review framework. MassGain preserves sources, baselines, verification, weights, and regional market context so supplier performance remains transparent and commercially relevant.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato supplier sustainability scorecard organizes environmental, social, governance, quality, service, and resilience measures for suppliers under a consistent review framework. It should preserve each metric's source, baseline, verification status, period, weighting, region, product, and supplier footprint.
Use the scorecard to compare improvement and risk without collapsing unlike claims into one opaque total. Connect component results with crop conditions, quality, freight, regional concentration, pricing, service, and switching alternatives so the score remains commercially grounded.
Data Module
Potato Supplier Sustainability Scorecard
ObjectMulti-component supplier performance scorecard
ComponentsEnvironment, social, governance, quality, resilience
EvidenceSource, baseline, period, verification status
DimensionsSupplier, plant, region, product
Commercial useAwards, remediation, improvement tracking
WatchpointKeep component scores and weights transparent
Analysis
Why this matters
The scorecard matters because supplier performance is partly shaped by geography, crop year, energy mix, and product portfolio. Without that context, a supplier can appear better or worse for reasons outside its management control.
The commercial question is what verified value a score represents. Higher cost may be justified by stronger resilience or measurable improvement, while an impressive aggregate built on weak boundaries should carry less weight.
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 leaders, processors, distributors, restaurant systems, and sustainability teams that need a potato supplier sustainability scorecard. A scorecard organizes defined environmental, social, governance, quality, and resilience measures so suppliers can be reviewed consistently over time. MassGain adds the potato-market context required to distinguish genuine supplier performance from conditions created by region, crop year, product mix, or sourcing exposure.
Useful measures may include emissions and water methodology, soil or input programs, traceability, certification, labor and governance controls, quality, usable yield, service, regional concentration, and improvement commitments. The scorecard should preserve source, verification status, baseline, period, and weighting rather than collapsing incomparable claims into one opaque number. MassGain connects each supplier’s results with regional crop and storage conditions, market prices, freight, plant footprint, contract behavior, and available alternatives. Procurement can reward measurable progress, identify remediation priorities, and understand the cost of switching or maintaining resilient capacity. Finance can see whether a premium buys verified value, while leadership can track category progress without ignoring service and supply risk. MassGain does not certify suppliers or dictate scorecard policy. It provides the external market evidence and transparent data structure needed to make sustainability performance comparable, explainable, and commercially grounded.
Use Case
A restaurant group reviews three frozen-potato suppliers. One reports the lowest emissions but uses an incomplete boundary and depends on a highly concentrated region; another shows verified year-over-year improvement and stronger service. MassGain normalizes the evidence, and procurement awards incremental volume to the improving supplier while requiring methodology remediation from the first.
FAQs
What can a potato supplier sustainability scorecard include?
It can include environmental metrics, traceability, labor and governance controls, quality, service, resilience, verification, and improvement progress.
Why should regional conditions be included?
Crop, water, energy, freight, and supply concentration can influence supplier outcomes independently of management performance.
How does MassGain keep the scorecard transparent?
It preserves sources, boundaries, verification, weights, baselines, market context, and component-level results.
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Data and Methodology
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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.
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Independent publication
Certain observations may be derived from USDA reports. MassGain is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USDA.
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