Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Potato Wholesale Trade Margin
Potato wholesale trade margin measures the spread between matched acquisition and resale value after freight, handling, packaging, storage, shrink, finance, and service. Historical product- and route-specific spreads help wholesalers judge whether current margin reflects seasonality, inventory risk, or a commercial change.
Market Data
How to read this market
Potato wholesale trade margin measures the spread between the cost of acquiring a matched potato product and the price received on resale, with freight, handling, packaging, storage, shrink, financing, and service treated consistently. The analysis should preserve origin, variety, grade, package, crop period, and delivery terms.
Use the margin to compare branches, products, or periods and to determine whether spread changes reflect seasonality, inventory risk, service, or genuine commercial pricing power. Historical matched spreads provide the most useful benchmark.
Data Module
Wholesale trade margin context
Purchase costmatched product acquisition value
Freight and handlingdelivered wholesale expense
Packaging and storageservice and carrying costs
Shrink and financeinventory risk components
Resale valuematched customer or market price
Decision usebranch, supplier, and credit review
Analysis
Why this matters
Wholesale trade margin can widen when the wholesaler is carrying more risk, not merely when pricing power improves. Scarce inventory, longer holding periods, difficult service lanes, and quality exposure can all require more spread.
The useful analysis compares gross spread with the cost and risk required to earn it. A narrow spread on fast-turn inventory may be more attractive than a wide spread on aging product with heavy shrink and financing.
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, grower-shippers, and finance teams that want to benchmark the commercial margin earned in potato wholesale trade. Potato wholesale trade margin is the spread between the cost of acquiring a matched potato product and the price received when reselling it, after considering freight, handling, packaging, shrink, storage, financing, and service obligations.
MassGain provides the external market structure needed to interpret that spread responsibly. It connects origin and wholesale benchmarks by region, variety, grade, package, crop period, and delivery basis, preventing a user from subtracting unrelated prices and calling the difference margin. Historical comparisons can show whether a current spread reflects ordinary seasonality, a temporary inventory shortage, higher working-capital needs, or a persistent commercial change.
The analysis supports branch performance reviews, supplier and customer negotiations, inventory decisions, and credit assessment. A wider margin may be justified when a wholesaler absorbs storage risk, maintains high service levels, or carries scarce inventory. A narrow margin may still be unattractive if shrink and financing costs are rising. MassGain does not estimate a company’s confidential net profit. It creates a consistent gross-market framework that teams can combine with internal costs to understand where value is being added, where risk is being carried, and where pricing may need attention.
Use Case
A produce wholesaler compares its margin on russet cartons across three branches. MassGain normalizes origin prices and regional freight, showing that the eastern branch’s higher selling spread is largely offset by greater shrink and financing duration. Management focuses improvement efforts on inventory turns rather than cutting the branch’s price.
FAQs
What does potato wholesale trade margin measure?
It measures the spread between matched acquisition and resale prices before or after defined wholesale costs.
Which costs should be included in the analysis?
Freight, handling, packaging, storage, shrink, financing, service, and rebates should be treated consistently.
Can MassGain reveal a wholesaler’s exact profit?
No. It provides external market benchmarks that can be combined with the company’s private cost records.
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Data and Methodology
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