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Flying potatoes around a copy block that reads 'The Best Defense is a Good Offense'.

With Emesto, you choose what’s best for your farm.

SEED-PIECE TREATMENT

SEED-PIECE TREATMENT

Emesto Complete

Emesto Silver

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  • Emesto Complete offers the same fungicide actives as Emesto Silver seed-piece treatment, plus an insecticide, to protect your potato crop from yield-robbing pests and diseases 
  • Excellent control of fusarium tuber rot (including current resistant strains), seed-borne Rhizoctonia solani (black scurf, stem and stolon canker) and silver scurf

Emesto® Silver fungicide seed-piece treatment provides excellent control of fusarium tuber rot and seed-borne rhizoctonia. Emesto® Complete fungicide and insecticide seed-piece treatment

combines the proven fungicide actives in Emesto Silver with strong insect control from a new and improved formulation of clothianidin. Get on the offensive and stay ahead of the game with Emesto. 

  • Coloured formulation facilitates safe and uniform application while allowing visual confirmation of coverage
  • Excellent control of fusarium tuber rot (including current resistant strains), seed-borne Rhizoctonia solani (black scurf, stem and stolon canker) and silver scurf
  • Strong insect control with a new and improved formulation of clothianidin, to ensure your crop is protected from key pests such as aphids, Colorado potato beetles, potato flea beetle and potato leafhopper 
Cover of the Potato Crop Protection Guide showing a field of a flowering potato plants and a close-up of several potatoes.

Learn about all our solutions in the Potato Crop Protection Guide from Bayer. 

This guide provides you with convenient access to technical information on all the potato crop protection solutions from Bayer to help you keep your plants healthy and maximize your yield potential.

Resources

The first 60 days in the life of a potato crop sets the stage for harvest success. The challenge is that most of the disease issues... 

Early-Season Soil and Root Health Key for Potato Crops

Managing black dot to minimize yield and quality loss in potatoes 

Black dot disease can lead to yield and quality losses in potatoes and is more widespread than one may expect.  

Managing nematodes to reduce the impact or potato early dying complex

Discover the role nematodes play early dying complex in potatoes

Creating an integrated nematode management program

Learn how an integrated nematode management program can help to increase yield potential

Rows of emerging potato plants

Early blight management

Best management practices for control of early blight in potatoes

Colorado Potato Beetles on a potato leaf

Colorado potato beetle management strategies

CPB continues to be the most destructive pest affecting potatoes. Learn how modern management strategies can help.

A Winged and wingless form of the peach-potato aphid on the underside of potato leaves.

Potato Virus Y management via control of aphid vectors

PVY is one of the most significant disease threats to commercial potato production affecting both yield and tuber quality, making management critical.

The first 60 days in the life of a potato crop sets the stage for harvest success. The challenge is that most of the disease issues... 

Early-Season Soil and Root Health Key for Potato Crops

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Black dot disease can lead to yield and quality losses in potatoes and is more widespread than one may expect.  

Managing black dot to minimize yield and quality loss in potatoes 

Managing nematodes to reduce the impact of potato early dying complex

Discover the role nematodes play early dying complex in potatoes

Learn how an integrated nematode management program can help to increase yield potential

Creating an integrated nematode management program

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Early blight management

Best management practices for control of early blight in potatoes 

Colorado potato beetle management strategies

CPB continues to be the most destructive pest affecting potatoes. Learn how modern management strategies can help.

Potato Virus Y management via control of aphid vectors

PVY is one of the most significant disease threats to commercial potato production affecting both yield and tuber quality, making management critical.

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Ontario, Québec, Maritimes and British Columbia

Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba

Save with the BayerValue Hot Potatoes® Rewards Program. Activate the Potato Bonus and earn up to 24% savings. 

Save up to 25% on purchases with the BayerValue™ Hot Potatoes® Prairies Rewards Program.

Take your savings to the next level with the new 2026 BayerValue Hot Potatoes® Rewards Program on qualifying purchases between October 1, 2025, and September 30, 2026.


Simply buy five or more qualifying products and save up to 14% on your purchases. Qualifying products include leading seed treatments, soil solutions, growth regulators, fungicides, herbicides and insecticides. 


Activate the Potato Bonus and earn up to 24% savings on qualifying products. To unlock this offer, purchase Emesto® Complete or Emesto Silver seed-piece treatments plus matching acres of one or more qualifying potato crop protection products, such as Velum® Rise fungicide/nematicide. 

Take your savings to the next level with the new 2026 BayerValue Hot Potatoes® Rewards Program, on qualifying purchases between October 1, 2025, and September 30, 2026.  


Buy a minimum of 300 acres of qualifying seed treatment, herbicide or fungicide from Bayer to protect your potatoes and up to 25% in savings could be yours. 

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