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Protect Your Potato Crop Against Threats You Can’t See:

Manage Nematodes with Velum Prime

Protect from Nematode Damage with Velum Prime

Protect your potatoes from nematode damage with Velum Prime, a fungicide/nematicide from Bayer.

Velum® Prime Is Your Solution for Post-planting Nematode Protection

Previously, growers had limited in-season options to protect their potatoes from nematodes. Bayer now offers a solution with Velum Prime, a nematicide with fungicidal activity that suppresses nematodes, fights damaging diseases and helps provide higher yields. Velum Prime is a fungicide/nematicide that can be conveniently applied during the season through irrigation systems.

Related: Creating an agronomic force field to safeguard potatoes throughout the first 75 days with the 75-Day IPM Program.


How it Pays to Use Velum Prime

  • +41 CWT/A average increased yield1
  • $279/A average increase in profits2
  • Effective wide-spectrum nematode management
  • Foliar and soil disease suppression including white mold, early blight and Verticillium wilt (early dying complex)
  • Long residual effects mean fewer applications and less hassle

Velum Prime Provides Multiple Solutions

  • Fast, effective and long-term management of key nematodes
  • Residual efficacy at unprecedented low application rate via chemigation
  • Profitable and sustainable farm management
  • Long residual effects mean fewer applications and less hassle
  • Better innovation chemistry: not restricted use

Studies have shown that Velum Prime helps suppress diseases and improve yield.

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  • Root health protection to help establish the crop
  • Increased yield
  • Wide-spectrum nematicidal activity
  • Suppression of key diseases
Four Symptoms That Show Your Potato Crop Is Suffering from Nematodes
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Root and tuber damage
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Wilting and stunted growth
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Disease transmission and Verticillium wilt (early dying complex)
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Up to 90% annual yield loss³
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