Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Weekly Average Price Survey
A potato weekly average price survey creates a reproducible physical-market benchmark from explicitly eligible observations. MassGain aligns product, region, grade, size, unit, delivery basis, timing, volume, and weighting and keeps sample coverage, range, concentration, and revisions visible.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato weekly-average-price-survey data defines eligible physical observations by product, region, grade, size, unit, delivery basis, transaction window, volume, weighting, exclusions, and publication timing. The market object is the governed weekly sample and resulting average.
Use the data to separate completed trades from bids, offers, formula settlements, and ineligible business and to publish coverage, range, concentration, and revisions alongside the average.
Data Module
Potato Weekly Average Price Survey
Market objectgoverned weekly price sample
Primary measurematched weekly average
Key dimensionsproduct, region, basis, window
Commercial usebenchmark and contract analysis
Controlseligibility, weighting, coverage, revisions
Compare withrange and underlying transactions
Analysis
Why this matters
An average is only as representative as its eligible sample. Mixing delivered premium lots with contract settlements or stale formula business can create a precise but commercially misleading number.
Commercial interpretation should publish coverage and composition with the average and qualify thin or concentrated weeks.
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 and market researchers building a potato weekly average price survey that reflects actual physical-market activity. MassGain structures respondent eligibility, product specification, region, grade, size, unit, delivery basis, transaction window, volume, exclusions, outlier review, weighting, and publication timing.
It separates completed purchases from bids, offers, formula settlements, transfers, and distressed or non-arm’s-length business. Researchers can choose simple, volume-weighted, or other documented averaging methods and see how each observation contributes to the result. The suite preserves low, high, midpoint, sample size, coverage, and revision history so the average is not mistaken for a universal executable price.
It also connects the weekly series with shipments, crop condition, storage, buyer activity, and seasonal patterns to test plausibility. MassGain does not guarantee complete private-market coverage or prescribe one official methodology. It provides a transparent survey framework that produces a reproducible benchmark and makes thin participation, specification gaps, and unusual business visible before the average is used in contracts or analysis.
Use Case
A price reporter receives twelve weekly observations, but four are delivered premium lots and three are contract settlements from an older formula. MassGain applies the stated eligibility rules, retains five matched spot purchases, reports the coverage and range, and avoids publishing a blended average that overstates the current market.
FAQs
What belongs in a weekly average price survey?
Eligible transactions, exact specifications, volume, timing, terms, exclusions, weighting, and coverage belong.
Should bids and offers be averaged with trades?
Not unless the methodology explicitly permits it and labels the different evidence types.
How does MassGain show benchmark quality?
It reports sample size, market coverage, range, concentration, revisions, and the contribution of each eligible observation.
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Data and Methodology
Professional market-data standards
MassGain is building transparent public market infrastructure. Each live metric will identify its date, unit, coverage, methodology, and source basis.
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.
No individualized advice
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.
Commercial use and licensing
Public display does not grant rights to reproduce, redistribute, republish, or incorporate MassGain indices or references into commercial products or contracts without authorization.