Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Trade by Partner Country
Potato trade by partner country organizes bilateral flows by origin, destination, product form, quantity, value, and period. Analysts can identify source dependence, destination exposure, emerging corridors, and whether reported trade can truly substitute for domestic supply.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato trade by partner-country data describes bilateral flows by origin and destination while preserving product form, reporting basis, and period. Core measures include quantity, value, unit value, and partner share across fresh, seed, frozen, flakes, starch, and other reported potato forms.
Use the data to identify source dependence, destination exposure, substitution, and changing trade corridors. Pair partner totals with re-exports, product mix, freight, and domestic supply before treating a country flow as commercially available replacement volume.
Data Module
Potato Trade by Partner Country
Market objectbilateral trade by origin and destination
Primary measuresquantity, value, unit value
Key dimensionspartner, product code, period
Commercial usesource and destination concentration
Market contextre-exports, product mix, freight
Compare withdomestic supply and matched prices
Analysis
Why this matters
Partner-country totals can rise while usable supply for a specific buyer remains unchanged because the growth may be in the wrong product form, destination, or processing category.
Commercial interpretation should map the bilateral flow to actual product eligibility and route economics. That prevents trade-hub activity or finished-product growth from being mistaken for raw-potato 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 16, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Potato market steady for now; Russia’s smaller crop is the salient risk
Spot prices are flat and USDA terminal reports read ‘market steady,’ but a renewed forecast for a smaller Russian harvest and recent regional harvest stress leave seasonal import timing and storage losses as the key uncertainty.
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 analysts, market researchers, procurement teams, and trade strategists that need potato trade data by partner country. Partner-country analysis shows which origins supply a market and which destinations absorb exports, revealing concentration, substitution, and geopolitical exposure that aggregate totals can hide. MassGain organizes those bilateral relationships across fresh potatoes, frozen products, flakes, starch, seed, and other reported forms.
The suite can compare quantity, value, unit price, product classification, origin, destination, period, currency, and mode of transport. Analysts can identify emerging suppliers, lost markets, and changes in partner share. Procurement teams can assess whether a domestic shortage can realistically be covered by specific countries. Finance and risk teams can see where tariffs, currency, border policy, or logistics disruptions matter most.
Trade records may be revised, aggregated, or affected by re-exports and classification differences. MassGain preserves source definitions and avoids treating partner totals as immediately available supply. It provides the structured bilateral view needed to interpret how country relationships shape potato availability, competition, and pricing.
Use Case
A processor sees national potato imports rising and assumes supply risk is easing. MassGain shows nearly all growth comes from one partner country and one frozen product code. The processor keeps fresh raw-potato contingency plans in place and monitors concentration in the imported category.
FAQs
What does trade by partner country show?
It shows reported potato imports or exports between specific origin and destination countries.
Why can partner concentration matter?
Policy, weather, currency, logistics, or disease events in one country can disrupt a large share of supply.
How does MassGain qualify bilateral data?
It adds product codes, value, volume, timing, re-export, freight, policy, and market context.
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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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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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