After you’ve considered your potato seed treatment, set your new potato seedlings up for success with an agronomic force field using Bayer products. Below, learn about managing early dying, root lesion nematodes and other key diseases like early blight.
IPM Options for Planting & Emergence Stage
See the detailed Integrated Pest Management (IPM) plan for Planting & Emergence as well as for all other growth stages.
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A Force in the Field – Planning for Potato Planting

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Manage Nematodes to Fight Off Early Dying Complex
Managing potato early dying involves an integrated strategy of selecting less susceptible varieties, practicing long crop rotations to non-host crops, reducing plant stress, promoting crop growth, and managing of root lesion nematodes.
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A Force in the Field: Controlling Early Blight
Early blight is the most reliable disease that growers see in Idaho. It’s more severe on the…
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Generations of Nematodes Feed on Potato Yield
Nematodes damage the quality and size of tubers and can cause up to 90-percent yield loss. Controlling nematodes helps create healthy plants and improve profitability.
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Force in the Field Resources
Integrated Pest Management Worksheet
We have provided a blank worksheet to help you keep track of your products, issues and application details.
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The Bayer 75-day Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program creates an agronomic force field, safeguarding potatoes through whatever nature throws in the way.
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Potato Recommended Application Timing
See the at-a-glance guide for which growth stage to apply which products.
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