January 2, 2026
Season-Long Potato Protection: How Vive's Proven Portfolio Powers Cleaner Applications and Stronger Emergence
Every season, potato growers face unique challenges, from early-season emergence issues to relentless pressure from insects and diseases. Achieving consistent yield and quality means staying ahead of these threats with tools that are effective, flexible, and easy to incorporate into modern planting and application practices.
Vive’s potato program is built to deliver exactly that: season-long protection with a proven portfolio designed for consistent applications, enhanced efficiency, and stronger, more uniform growth.
Here’s how growers are putting Vive solutions to work from Day 1 through harvest:
Start clean. stay clean.
Vive's best-mixing fungicides and insecticides play nice in the tank with liquid fertilizers, micronutrients, and other crop inputs, enabling a targeted at-plant crop protection application. This precise application creates a shield of protection around the budding seed, protecting the plant from stress, pests, and diseases, right from the start.
AZteroid® FC 3.3 fungicide: In-furrow disease control of Black dot, Rhizoctonia diseases, and Silver scurf
AZterknot® bio-enabled + fungicide: In-furrow applications provide a MAX boost of plant growth, stress tolerance, and prevent diseases
Bifender® FC insecticide: Hassle-free wireworm control
Viloprid® 4 insecticide: Easy-to-use imidacloprid
With Vive’s at-plant solutions, you get:
- No clogged filters or nozzles that slow down planting and compromise coverage.
- Cleaner, more efficient applications with seamless mixing and smoother product dispersion.
- Improved stand uniformity with healthy, evenly emerging plants.
- Reduced early-season stress from soilborne diseases and insects.
- Better return on your seed investment when every seed has a greater chance for peak performance.
Power potato performance above the soil
In potato production, what happens above the soil line matters just as much as what’s happening beneath it. As the crop moves from early vegetative growth into canopy development and bulking, foliar protection becomes essential for safeguarding yield, maintaining plant health, and protecting marketable potato quality.
Vive’s foliar solutions are built to give potato growers superior coverage, and dependable pest and disease control, all with the tank-mix flexibility of Vive’s solutions.
AZteroid® FC 3.3 fungicide: Best-Mixing Foliar Disease Protection
AZterknot® fungicide: Increases marketable tuber yield. Apply in rosette stage to boost control of diseases that can enter the foliage through wounds caused by blowing wind and sand.
Bifender® FC insecticide: Controls a broad range of pests
Viloprid® 4 insecticide: Strong & flexible insect control
Protect your tuber investment from below-ground threats
Healthy tubers start with healthy soil and strong in-furrow and in-season protection. Wireworms, nematodes, and nematode disease complexes damage tuber yield, quality, and marketability. That’s why Vive’s potato program includes tools specifically designed to protect the tuber from hidden, below-ground threats:
Bifender® FC insecticide: Controls a broad range of pests, including wireworms. By reducing feeding damage that leads to holes, scarring, and entry points for disease, Bifender FC helps protect the integrity of the developing tuber.
Averland® FC nematicide: Up to three, in-season chemigation applications of Averland FC (2ee label) can suppress Columbia root-knot and lesion nematodes, protecting tuber yield and quality.
COMING SOON! Averland® SM nematicide: A NEW soil mobility platform enabling efficient chemigation applications!
conclusion
Vive’s potato program isn’t just a collection of crop protection products; it’s a holistic, season-long strategy designed to give growers every advantage from planting through harvest. Built on years of field-proven performance and powered by Precision Chemistry™, Vive’s potato program delivers consistent value where growers need it most: smoother applications, stronger emergence, and dependable protection against insect pests, nematodes, and diseases.
Learn more about Vive’s potato product lineup: info.vivecrop.com/potato
Important: Always read and follow label instructions. Check state registrations before use. AVERLAND FC, AVERLAND SM, AND BIFENDER FC ARE RESTRICTED USE PESTICIDES. Allosperse®, Averland®, AZterknot®, AZteroid®, Bifender®, Phobos®, Viloprid®, and Precision Chemistry™ are trademarks of Vive Crop Protection Inc. ©2026 Vive Crop Protection Inc.