Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Supply Use Table
A potato supply use table reconciles the sources of potato supply with the channels that consume or carry it through a defined crop period. MassGain organizes stocks, production, trade, fresh use, processing, seed, losses, and ending inventory with region and quality context so users can identify which use is tightening accessible supply.
Market Data
How to read this market
A potato supply use table reconciles the sources of potato supply with the channels that consume or carry that supply through a defined crop period. Typical categories include beginning stocks, production, imports, fresh use, processing, seed, feed or other uses, exports, losses, and ending inventory, all on consistent units and geography.
MassGain can use the table to show where the balance is changing and which uses compete for commercially suitable potatoes. Users should distinguish headline tonnage from quality-, region-, and specification-adjusted availability when applying the table to a processor, grower, or buyer.
Data Module
Potato supply-use context
Beginning stocksusable inventory entering the period
Productionmarketable crop by region and channel
Importsexternal supply entering the balance
Domestic usefresh, processing, seed, and other demand
Exports and lossesvolume leaving usable domestic supply
Ending stocksresidual inventory carried forward
Analysis
Why this matters
A normal production year can still produce tight availability in one channel when processing demand, seed retention, exports, or quality losses absorb more of the crop. Conversely, a smaller crop can remain commercially comfortable if beginning stocks and substitute regions provide coverage.
The residual matters too. A large unexplained balance may indicate stale production, inventory, trade, or loss assumptions rather than hidden supply. MassGain can treat reconciliation gaps as an analytical signal and test them against prices, storage, and market availability.
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 supply-chain planners that need a reconciled view of how potato supply is allocated across competing uses. A potato supply use table organizes beginning stocks, production, imports, seed retention, fresh-market sales, processing demand, feed, exports, losses, and ending inventory in one consistent framework. MassGain’s potato data suite helps users align those categories by region, crop year, product channel, and quality so the table reflects commercially usable supply rather than headline tonnage alone.
The value is in exposing where the balance is changing. A normal crop can still produce tight processing availability if more volume is diverted to seed, fresh channels, or exports, while reported inventories can overstate usable supply when quality or location is mismatched. MassGain helps teams compare current allocations with historical patterns, identify unexplained residuals, and connect changes in use with price, storage, and regional availability signals.
Growers can use the table to understand demand competition, processors to test coverage, and lenders to evaluate revenue or inventory assumptions. MassGain does not replace official statistics or private operating records. It provides a transparent structure for reconciling supply and use, documenting assumptions, and updating the balance as new crop, storage, trade, and demand evidence becomes available.
Use Case
A processor sees regional production near trend but rising prices for high-solids potatoes. MassGain’s supply use table shows that stronger factory demand, seed retention, and storage losses have reduced the volume available for supplemental processing purchases. Procurement advances contracted deliveries and secures a limited alternate-region tranche, while finance updates only the exposed plant assumptions instead of treating the whole crop as short.
FAQs
What does a potato supply use table include?
It reconciles stocks, production, trade, seed, fresh use, processing, feed, losses, and ending inventory.
Why can total production overstate available supply?
Quality, location, commitments, storage condition, and competing uses can limit the volume accessible to a buyer.
How does MassGain improve supply-use analysis?
It aligns regions, crop years, market channels, prices, and commercially usable quality in one auditable framework.
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Data and Methodology
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