Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Supply and Demand
For growers and potato supply-chain teams, potato supply and demand helps compare usable potato supply with processing, fresh-market, export, and other demand by region and period. MassGain combines regional crop, quality, storage, price, availability, and timing signals so users can distinguish headline supply from commercially usable potatoes.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato supply and demand analysis compares commercially usable production and inventory with demand from processing, fresh markets, exports, and other channels. The relevant balance must preserve region, variety, quality, storage condition, and delivery timing because total tonnage can overstate supply available to a specific buyer.
MassGain combines acreage, yield, harvest, storage, price, and demand signals to show whether a market is moving toward surplus, balance, or shortage.
Data Module
Supply-demand context
Productionacreage and usable yield
Inventorystored volume and quality
Demandprocessing, fresh, export, and other pull
Regional balancelocal surplus or deficit
Market accessfreight and specification constraints
Decision usestorage, sourcing, and contract coverage
Analysis
Why this matters
A large crop can coexist with tight processing supply if solids, quality, variety, or storage losses reduce the usable share. Conversely, a localized production problem may have little market impact when alternate regions can serve the same demand.
MassGain helps separate aggregate production from accessible supply. That distinction is essential for interpreting whether a price move reflects genuine tightening or a temporary logistics and specification mismatch.
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 growers, processors, packers, storage operators, and supply-chain teams that need to understand whether the potato market is moving toward surplus, balance, or shortage. Potato supply and demand analysis connects production with the volume that is actually usable and commercially available. MassGain’s potato data suite brings together planted acreage, yield expectations, harvest progress, quality, storage losses, processing demand, fresh-market movement, exports, inventory, and regional prices so users can see which side of the balance is changing.
That distinction matters because headline production alone can mislead. A large crop may still leave a particular variety, size, or processing specification tight, while stored inventory may exist on paper but deteriorate before it reaches the market. MassGain helps teams compare regions, crop years, end uses, and delivery windows, then track whether price changes are supported by tightening availability, stronger demand, or a temporary logistics constraint.
Growers can use the intelligence to assess marketing and storage choices, while processors and supply-chain teams can adjust coverage, nominations, production schedules, and alternate-origin plans. MassGain does not replace field scouting, private inventory records, or confirmed customer demand. It supplies the independent market framework needed to interpret scattered signals, test assumptions, and make decisions based on the balance between suitable supply and real demand rather than a single production estimate.
Use Case
A processor sees national potato production near trend but notices higher prices for high-solids processing varieties. MassGain shows that fresh-market supply is comfortable while usable processing inventory is tightening because of lower solids and elevated storage loss in two key basins. Procurement advances contracted deliveries, reserves a limited alternate-region tranche, and avoids overreacting by buying broad market volume that does not meet plant specifications.
FAQs
What does potato supply and demand analysis measure?
It compares usable production, inventories, imports, storage losses, and commercial availability with processing, fresh-market, export, and other demand.
Why can a large crop still produce a tight market?
Variety, quality, size, location, storage condition, and processing suitability can limit the portion of total production available to a specific buyer.
How does MassGain connect supply and demand with price?
It aligns regional balance-sheet signals with benchmarks, availability, crop timing, and historical market responses.
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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.
Not transactional pricing
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No individualized advice
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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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