Maximising Potato Crop Yields – Summer 2025 Focus
Posted on 23 June 2025
Effective control of key diseases and aphid populations is essential to achieving good crop growth, maintaining yield and quality through to harvest. Careful product choice and precise timing will go a long way in protecting your investment and improving crop output.
Clayton Fungicides for Disease control:
With disease control in mind, Clayton can offer growers two great value, reliable products in Clayton Augusta™, containing 250 g/l azoxystrobin and Clayton Linaxo™, containing 600 g/kg cymoxanil.
Clayton Augusta (F)
Versatile, highly effective protectant and systemic strobilurin fungicide for control of Early blight (Alternaria spp.) and Sclerotinia stem rot in potatoes.
Clayton Linaxo (F)
Locally systemic fungicide offering the flexibility of preventative and curative control in programmes and an ideal partner product, for control of Late blight (Phytophthora infestans) in potatoes.
Clayton Insecticides for Aphid control:
In terms of vital aphid control within crops and to prevent the transmission of damaging plant viruses, Clayton has two highly effective products available; Clayton Sparta™, containing 50 g/l lambda-cyhalothrin and Clayton Lanark™, containing 100 g/l lambda-cyhalothrin.
Clayton Sparta, Clayton Lanark (I)
Powerful pyrethroid insecticides in standard or high-loaded formulations for the control of aphids in potatoes including Peach-potato aphid (Myzus persicae), Potato aphid (Macrosiphum euphorbiae) and others.
For more information read our 2025 Potato Range Product Guide here or contact us via info@claytonpp.com