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Helping you to maximise your potato yield
Our expanding range of solutions now includes:
Zorvec Entecta™, the fungicide containing the renowned Zorvec™ active, Option® fungicide (cymoxanil), the herbicide Titus®, and biostimulant BlueN™.
Our expanding range of solutions now includes:
Zorvec Entecta™, the fungicide containing the renowned Zorvec™ active, Option® fungicide (cymoxanil), the herbicide Titus®, and biostimulant BlueN™.
- Programme approach
- Fungicide solutions
- 2025 Application advice
- Herbicide solutions
- Biostimulant solutions
- CPD Quiz & Survey
- Contact details
- Video series
How our solutions can fit into your programme
Fungicide solutions
Zorvec™ active
Zorvec active is the first active ingredient of its kind — a member of a novel class of fungicides that control diseases caused by oomycetes acting at a unique site within the pathogen. Inside the plant it moves systemically to protect new growth as it emerges and develops.
Key benefits:
- Unique site of activity: contains new chemical group FRAC Group 49.
- Outstanding efficacy: offers robust control on a 7-day spray interval, even during rapid growth phase of crop.
- Systemic activity: systemic movement of Zorvec active enables uniform protection even for portions of leaves receiving partial spray coverage.
See below for Zorvec containing products available to UK growers.
Zorvec Entecta™
Zorvec Entecta is the latest solution available to growers having received approval for use in the UK in 2024 and utilises the renowned Zorvec active formulation to deliver the most flexible Late Blight control.
Formulation: Suspo-emulsion (SE) containing 240g/l amisulbrom + 48g/l oxathiapiprolin - Group 21 + 49 Fungicides respectively.
Recommended rate: 0.25L/ha
Option®
Option is a fungicide for potato Late Blight disease control containing cymoxanil which has been the backbone of the UK blight programme for many years and continues to provide invaluable curative activity that can be combined with other AI's at any stage of the blight programme. Cymoxanil (Group 27) offers an additional MoA in addition to curative activity as part of an anti-resistance strategy in mixture with a fungicide partner. This is of particular value for single AI products
Formulation: Water dispersible granule containing 600g/kg cymoxanil.
Key benefits:
- Option contains cymoxanil, which is locally systemic and offers both preventative and curative control.
- It must only be applied in tank-mixture with specified formulations of partner blight materials.
- The combination of two active ingredients will also help to reduce the selection and build-up of resistant strains of fungi.
Zorvec active best practice application advice for 2025
Visit the Zorvec stewardship hub to read the full best practice application advice for the 2024 season.
Herbicide solutions
Titus®
Titus is the mainstay of early season post emergence weed control in potatoes. Typically applied when weeds break through residual programmes or germinate late. Best control is achieved when weeds are small and actively growing (between 2-4 true leaves). Titus has activity on a wide range of difficult broad-leaved weeds, such as cleavers, chickweed, redshank, mayweed, brassica weeds and volunteer oilseed rape. It also has some excellent activity on some grasses, notably couch.
Formulation: 250 g/kg rimsulfuron
Application timing: in the spring pre-emergence of the crop up until the crop is 25 cm high. Best control is achieved when weeds are small and actively growing (cotyledon to 2 true leaves).
Application method: Sprayer
Key benefits:
- Suitable for use on all potato varieties excluding seed crops.
- Broad spectrum of activity including difficult broad-leaved weeds and grasses.
- It can be tank-mixed with metribuzin (on metribuzin tolerant varieties only), for improved control of knotgrass, fat hen and speedwells. However, mixtures with metribuzin will be antagonistic in terms of cleaver control.
- Use Vivolt at 0.1% v/v when applied alone or in a tank-mix.
Biostimulant solutions
BlueN™
BlueN provides a crop with a unique way to capture nitrogen throughout the season, helping plants reach their marketable yield potential. The BlueN potato trials programme in 2024 showed an average marketable yield increase of 4t/ha and an average return on investment of £970/ha (potatoes £250/t and BlueN £30/ha).
Contains: Methylobacterium symbioticum.
Pack size: 3kg
Recommended rate: 333g/ha
Maximum no. of applications: 1 application per crop.
Application timing: when the crops are meeting in the row.
Application method: Foliar with sprayer.
Rainfast: 1 hour
Key benefits:
Enhanced plant growth and resilience.
- BlueN enhances plant growth and resilience by fixing atmospheric nitrogen directly in the plant. This process occurs throughout the growing season, resulting in marketable yield increases.
Provides a sustainable source of nitrogen.
- BlueN meets changing market expectations by providing a supplementary and sustainable source of nitrogen, without the risk of leaching or releasing additional greenhouse gases. BlueN reduces the dependency of nitrogen fertiliser uptake from the soil and ensures the plant has access to nitrogen all season long.
Learn & earn CPD points
Watch the technical update video then take the quiz to earn CPD points*.
You can also share your thoughts in the survey section and be in with a chance of winning a prize hamper!
Spring 2025 Technical Update - Potatoes
Spring 2025 Technical Update - Potatoes
Once you have watched the video, take the quiz here >
To find out more about our solutions for potato crops, please visit www.corteva.co.uk or contact one of our team.
Visit our Corteva learning hub to find other ways to earn CPD points.
*1 BASIS (CP) and/or 1 NRoSO point available.
Contact details
If you would like to contact a member of the team, click here to find your local area manager.
Alternatively, you can call our Technical Hotline on 0800 689 8899, email ukhotline@corteva.com, or complete our enquiry form.
2025 Potato crop update videos
Potato crop update #3: Zorvec™ active and BlueN™ in the programme and Stable Canopy commentary
Join Field Technical Manager Craig Chisholm and Area Manager Abi Morton for the third potato crop update this season from a North Yorkshire field of Innovator potatoes.
Potato crop update #3: Zorvec™ active and BlueN™ in the programme and Stable Canopy commentary
Join Field Technical Manager Craig Chisholm and Area Manager Abi Morton for the third potato crop update this season from a North Yorkshire field of Innovator potatoes.
Potato crop update #2: Rapid Growth stage applications of Zorvec™ Entecta and BlueN™ considerations
Join Craig Chisholm and Abi Morton for the second potato update this season from a North Yorkshire field of Innovator potatoes.
Potato crop update #2: Rapid Growth stage applications of Zorvec™ Entecta and BlueN™ considerations
Join Craig Chisholm and Abi Morton for the second potato update this season from a North Yorkshire field of Innovator potatoes.
Potato fungicide programmes: Stewardship reminder and get the crop off to the best start with Option
Join Craig Chisholm for some timely advice for potato growers, from a North Yorkshire field of Innovator potatoes.
Potato fungicide programmes: Stewardship reminder and get the crop off to the best start with Option
Join Craig Chisholm for some timely advice for potato growers, from a North Yorkshire field of Innovator potatoes.
