Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Terminal Market Offerings
Potato terminal market offerings describes what is currently offered at a destination market by origin, variety, grade, size, package, asking price, and reported volume. Pairing offers with arrivals, inventory, shipping-point values, and freshness helps wholesalers judge whether a listing is representative, thin, or stale.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato terminal market offerings describe the potatoes currently offered at a destination market by origin, variety, grade, size, package, and asking price. Offerings should be distinguished from completed transactions and qualified by freshness and volume.
Use the data with arrivals, local inventory, shipping-point prices, freight, and demand to determine whether an offer is representative or merely a thin, premium, or stale listing. This supports more disciplined daily purchasing and customer pricing.
Data Module
Terminal offerings context
Destinationwholesale market
Productvariety, grade, size, and package
Originsupplying region
Offerasking price and reported volume
Market deptharrivals, inventory, and freshness
Decision usebuying and customer quotation
Analysis
Why this matters
A high offer with little volume should not carry the same weight as repeated transactions across a deep market. Conversely, a narrow price range can still represent tight supply when few lots are available.
The analytical value comes from linking offers to market depth. That prevents one unusual listing from resetting a category benchmark or supplier negotiation.
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 page is for wholesalers, distributors, terminal-market buyers, retailers, and foodservice procurement teams that need to understand which potato products are currently being offered at destination markets. Potato terminal market offerings describe the origins, varieties, grades, sizes, packages, price ranges, and reported availability visible at a defined wholesale terminal.
MassGain helps users distinguish an offering from a completed transaction and place the observation within the broader supply chain. A wide list of offers may indicate abundant supply, but it may also contain small volumes, premium specifications, or product that has been carried forward without trading. The platform compares terminal offerings with shipping-point prices, arrival volumes, local inventory, historical spreads, freight, and demand. Buyers can identify whether a local premium reflects genuine scarcity, whether another origin is becoming competitive, and which sizes or packages are driving the market.
The data supports daily purchasing, branch price books, supplier negotiations, and customer quotations. It also helps teams avoid repricing an entire category because of one thin or unusually high offer. MassGain does not represent every offering as executable at every volume. It provides freshness, specification, and market-depth context so users can evaluate what is actually available at the terminal and how confidently those offers should influence a purchase or selling price.
Use Case
A terminal report lists sharply higher russet offers, but MassGain shows the increase is confined to 70-count cartons from one origin. Ninety-count cartons and a second approved origin remain stable. A foodservice wholesaler reserves the scarce size for steakhouse customers, redirects flexible demand, and limits customer increases to the affected specification.
FAQs
What are potato terminal market offerings?
They are reported offers by origin, variety, grade, size, package, price range, and destination market.
Are terminal offerings completed sales?
Not necessarily. Offers, asking prices, and available lots should be distinguished from confirmed transactions.
How does MassGain evaluate an offering?
It compares specification, freshness, arrivals, local inventory, shipping-point values, freight, and demand.
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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
MassGain figures are informational reference values and do not constitute executable bids, offers, settlements, or guarantees that a transaction can occur at the displayed value.
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Content and data are provided for informational and analytical purposes and do not constitute financial, investment, legal, trading, or individualized procurement advice.
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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