Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Supply Geospatial Data
For growers and potato supply-chain teams, potato supply geospatial data helps map production, storage, plants, freight corridors, and regional prices to reveal geographic concentration. 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 geospatial data maps where production, storage, processing, freight infrastructure, and demand are physically concentrated. The market object is the spatial relationship between crop supply and the facilities and routes needed to turn it into usable commercial volume.
MassGain can connect acreage, crop progress, weather, storage, processor locations, shipping points, regional prices, and freight corridors so users can identify clusters, alternate origins, and hidden common dependencies.
Data Module
Geospatial supply context
Production zonesacreage and crop concentration
Storage nodesinventory and quality locations
Processing plantsdemand and capacity centers
Freight corridorspractical movement routes
Regional priceseconomic signal by geography
Decision usediversification, logistics, and exposure mapping
Analysis
Why this matters
Geography often reveals concentration that supplier lists hide. Several borrowers or suppliers can appear independent while sharing the same weather basin, storage network, or transport corridor.
MassGain helps map those correlated exposures and test whether an alternate region is commercially viable after distance, freight, specification, and historical flow are considered. Spatial separation only creates resilience when the supply chain is truly independent.
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, agricultural lenders, logistics teams, and supply-chain planners that need to understand where potato production, storage, processing, and demand are physically concentrated. Potato supply geospatial data converts market information into location-based intelligence by linking acreage, crop progress, weather, yield, storage facilities, processing plants, shipping points, freight corridors, and regional prices. MassGain’s potato data suite helps users see how distance and geographic concentration shape availability, delivered cost, and disruption risk.
A national total can conceal a highly localized problem. Excess rain may delay harvest around one cluster of plants, a storage-quality issue may affect facilities serving the same basin, or a road and rail constraint may isolate otherwise available crop. MassGain allows teams to compare production zones with plant demand, map practical alternate origins, and identify where multiple suppliers share the same underlying physical exposure. Historical regional spreads and movement patterns add context to the map, showing whether an apparent alternative has actually supplied the destination economically in similar periods.
The data supports network design, sourcing diversification, crop-risk monitoring, collateral analysis, freight planning, and emergency response. Users can combine MassGain’s external geospatial layer with private fields, contracts, inventories, plants, and customer locations. MassGain does not provide exact farm-level conditions or guarantee route availability. It supplies a geographic decision framework that helps organizations identify clusters, gaps, and dependencies before a local event becomes a systemwide supply or cost problem.
Use Case
A lender believes its potato portfolio is diversified across six borrowers. MassGain’s geospatial view shows that four farms, a storage operator, and a processor all sit within the same weather and freight corridor. The lender stress-tests that cluster for delayed harvest and storage loss, requests updated insurance and buyer contracts, and balances future lending with borrowers in a second production region rather than treating each legal entity as an independent exposure.
FAQs
What can potato supply geospatial data map?
It can map production, acreage, weather, crop progress, storage, processors, shipping points, freight routes, demand centers, and regional prices.
Why does geographic concentration matter?
Several suppliers may share the same weather, storage, processing, or logistics exposure even when they are separate companies.
How does MassGain support alternate-origin planning?
It compares distance, historical flows, regional availability, specifications, freight relationships, and price spreads between candidate supply areas.
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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
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Not transactional pricing
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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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