Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Supply Balance Sheet
A potato supply balance sheet reconciles beginning stocks, production, imports, exports, seed, processing, fresh demand, losses, other uses, and ending inventory. MassGain adds region, channel, quality, and storage context so users can distinguish a comfortable aggregate balance from a shortage of commercially suitable supply.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato supply balance sheet reconciles beginning stocks, production, imports, exports, seed, processing, fresh-market demand, losses, other uses, and ending stocks. It should distinguish total potatoes from commercially suitable supply by region, crop year, and market channel.
MassGain provides the regional and quality context needed to understand whether the apparent balance represents supply accessible to a specific buyer or product.
Data Module
Supply balance-sheet context
Beginning stockscarry-in inventory
Productionnew crop supply
Tradeimports and exports
Usesseed, processing, fresh, and other demand
Lossesshrink, quality, and unmarketable volume
Ending stocksremaining usable supply
Analysis
Why this matters
A comfortable aggregate balance can coexist with tight processing-grade or regional supply when variety, quality, contracts, or storage constrain accessibility.
MassGain helps reconcile those hidden differences. The analytical value is to identify which component is driving the residual and whether price behavior is consistent with the underlying physical balance.
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, analysts, lenders, and policy or supply-chain teams that need a reconciled view of potato supply and use. A potato supply balance sheet accounts for beginning stocks, production, imports, exports, seed, processing, fresh-market demand, feed or other uses, losses, and ending stocks. MassGain’s potato data suite helps organize those components by region, crop year, product channel, and quality so users can understand whether the market is moving toward surplus, balance, or deficit.
The balance sheet is more useful when it distinguishes total potatoes from commercially suitable supply. A normal production figure can coexist with tight processing-grade availability, while reported stocks may overstate accessible volume because of contracts, quality, location, or storage deterioration. MassGain helps users compare current estimates with historical relationships, identify residual or unexplained gaps, and connect balance changes with price and market behavior.
Processors can use the framework for coverage and inventory planning, growers for marketing decisions, and lenders for revenue or collateral scenarios. MassGain does not replace official statistics or private inventory records. It provides a transparent reconciliation structure that makes assumptions visible and allows the balance to be updated as crop, storage, trade, and demand evidence changes.
Use Case
A regional processor sees headline production near trend but rising prices for processing potatoes. MassGain’s balance sheet shows comfortable fresh-market supply, while high-solids inventory is shrinking because of lower recovery, storage loss, and stronger factory use. Procurement protects remaining suitable stocks and secures limited alternate-region volume. Finance updates only the exposed plant assumptions instead of treating the entire potato market as short.
FAQs
What does a potato supply balance sheet include?
It reconciles stocks, production, trade, seed, processing, fresh demand, other uses, losses, and ending inventory.
Why can the balance look comfortable while one market is tight?
Variety, quality, location, commitments, and storage condition can limit the supply accessible to a particular buyer.
How does MassGain improve balance-sheet analysis?
It aligns regional components, market channels, quality, crop periods, prices, and historical relationships.
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Data and Methodology
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