2009 INSECTICIDE
UPDATE



■ Manufacturer: Arysta LifeScience

Brand Name: Kanemite Miticide (Label Change—Expanded citrus label; addition of tree nuts and grapes, addition of pest mites to existing crops)
Active Ingredient: Acequinocyl
Crop Designation: Citrus, Trees, Nuts and Vines—citrus, pome fruit, grapes, tree nuts and pistachios; Other—strawberries.
Application Practice: Apply when pest mite threshold populations are observed and before large mite populations have been established.
Application Rate: Refer to product label.

In July 2008, the EPA approved an expanded citrus label and also added tree nuts and grapes as well as additional pest mites for Kanemite Miticide. Kanemite provides fast knockdown of key mite species in pome fruit, strawberries, citrus, tree nuts and grapes.

■ Manufacturer: Bayer CropScience

Brand Name: Belt Insecticide (New Product)
Active Ingredient: Flubendiamide
Crop Designation: Corn; Cotton; Citrus, Trees, Nuts and Vines—pome fruit, stone fruit, tree nuts, and grapes; Other—tobacco.
Application Practice: Foliar application provides rapid feeding cessation and long residual.
Application Rate: The recommended application rate is 2 to 5 fl. oz/A, varying by crop.

Belt is a powerfully effective new worm management tool that controls a broad spectrum of economically important worm pests. Belt is fast-acting, and provides rapid feeding cessation and long-lasting residual control for better overall protection of crop value. Belt is from a new chemical class with no known cross-resistance and also works well with Integrated Pest Management programs.

■ Manufacturer: Bayer CropScience

Brand Name: Envidor 2 SC Miticide (Label Change)
Active Ingredient: Spirodiclofen
Crop Designation: Citrus, Trees, Nuts and Vines—citrus, grapes, pome fruit, stone fruit, tree nuts; Other—adds Christmas trees and hops to label.
Application Practice: Foliar application with activity against all life stages of mites for excellent application flexibility.
Application Rate: The recommended application rate is 12 to 34 fl. oz/A—varies by crop.

The Envidor Miticide label has been expanded to include Christmas trees and hops. Envidor stops mites in all life stages—eggs, nymphs and female adults. Immature mites die soon after treatment because they can’t grow into the next development stage. Treated adult females lay fewer eggs. Envidor also offers flexible application timing, has no cross-resistance to other miticides and is an excellent choice for Integrated Pest Management programs.

■ Manufacturer: Bayer CropScience

Brand Name: Leverage 2.7 Insecticide (Label Change—Now also provides unique Stress Shield, from Bayer CropScience to soybeans, in addition to cotton.)
Active Ingredient: Imidacloprid, cyfluthrin
Crop Designation: Soybeans; Cotton.
Application Practice: Gallons per acre: 10 (ground); 2 (air); chemigation option.
Surfactants: Crop Oil Concentrate if applied by air, and Non-Ionic Surfactant if applied by ground.
Tankmix: Compatible with many fungicides, herbicides and fertilizers. Consult your Bayer CropScience representative for details.
Rainfast: 3 to 4 hours.
Application Rate: Bayer CropScience recommends Leverage 2.7 be applied at 3.8 fl. oz/A.

Leverage 2.7 provides the unique Stress Shield, as well as two insecticidal modes of action, both contact and in-plant, for better residual protection against sucking and chewing pests in soybeans and cotton. Leverage provides broad-spectrum pest control, even against those that may be present at sub-threshold levels. Leverage 2.7 provides Stress Shield protection from environmental stresses, leading to more vigorous, healthier plants.

■ Manufacturer: Bayer CropScience

Brand Name: Movento Insecticide (New Product)
Active Ingredient: Spirotetramat
Crop Designation: Vegetables—fruiting, brassica (cole) leafy, and non-brassica leafy vegetable crop groups; Citrus, Trees, Nuts and Vines—citrus, pome fruits, stone fruits and tree nuts; Other—hops and Christmas trees.
Application Practice: Foliar application with revolutionary two-way systemic activity.
Application Rate: The recommended application rate is 4 to 10 fl. oz/A, varying by crop.

Movento provides unique and revolutionary two-way systemic activity to move the active ingredient upward and downward through a plant’s vascular system. Movento offers more complete and long-lasting protection of young shoots, leaves and roots against aphids, mealybugs, whiteflies, scales and many other sucking insect pests.

■ Manufacturer: Bayer CropScience

Brand Name: Poncho 500 Seed-Applied Insecticide (Label Change—New rate)
Active Ingredient: Clothianidin
Crop Designation: Corn.
Application Practice: Seed treatment.
Application Rate: The recommended application rate is 0.5 mg a.i./kernel or 2.26 fl. oz/80,000 seed unit as denoted on the label.

With Poncho 500 seed-applied insecticide, more protection equals more yield. It’s the easy-to-use, economical protection from early season insects that growers expect, with even better performance than Poncho 250. Choose Poncho 500 to protect your seed investment and maximize your potential vigor, stand and yields. By applying more active ingredient to the seed, Poncho 500 improves early season seed and seedling protection from damage caused by wireworm, black cutworm and other early season insect pests. Current data shows that Poncho 500 delivers on average 10 bu/A more yield than do fungicide controls, and Poncho 500 uses the same coating as Poncho 250.

■ Manufacturer: Bayer CropScience

Brand Name: Synapse WG Insecticide (New Product)
Active Ingredient: Flubendiamide
Crop Designation: Vegetables—cucurbit, fruiting, leafy and brassica (cole) leafy vegetable crop groups.
Application Practice: Foliar application leads to rapid feeding cessation moments after ingestion.
Application Rate: The recommended application rate is 2 to 3 oz/A, varies by crop.

Synapse works astonishingly fast to control all types of worms for healthier, better looking, more marketable vegetables. Synapse provides rapid feeding cessation and long-lasting residual control of several worm larvae. Synapse is from a new chemical class with no known cross-resistance and also works well with Integrated Pest Management programs.

■ Manufacturer: Cheminova Inc.

Brand Name: Declare (New Product)
Active Ingredient: Gamma Cyhalothrin
Crop Designation: Corn; Soybeans; Wheat; Cotton; Forage; Peanuts; Rice; Vegetables—see label; Citrus; Other—Declare will be labeled for use on a wide range of crops including row crops, pastures, vegetables and orchards.
Application Practice: Foliar applied.
Application Rate: 0.0075 to 0.015 pounds of ai per acre.

For broad-spectrum control of insect pests in row crops, pastures, vegetables and orchards. Declare will have the lowest use-rates of any insecticide available and will show superior rainfastness and excellent tank-mix flexibility. Packaged in one-gallon jugs with each case containing four, one gallon jugs.

■ Manufacturer: Chemtura Corporation

Brand Name: Acromite 45C (Label Change)
Active Ingredient: Bifenazole
Crop Designation: Soybeans; Citrus, Trees, Nuts and Vines—Christmas trees/conifer plantations and nurseries, caneberry, wild raspberry, tropical fruit; Vegetables—legume vegetables, beans, chickpeas, green pea, field pea, garden field.
Application Practice: IPM vegetative/bearing.
Application Rate: See label.

New crops were added to the label.

■ Manufacturer: Chemtura Corporation

Brand Name: Attendant 600 (New Product—Insecticide seed treatment containing imidacloprid)
Active Ingredient: Imidacloprid
Crop Designation: Corn; Soybeans; Wheat; Cotton.
Application Practice: Seed treatment.
Application Rate: Varies by crop. Examples: Small Grain Cereals: 0.13 2.4 fl. oz/cwt.; Soybeans: 1.6 to 3.2 fl. oz/cwt.

A seed treatment insecticide for use on a wide variety of crops. Contains the systemic insecticide imidacloprid for protection against aphids, wireworms and other many other insects. Suitable for mixing with many seed treatment fungicide products.

■ Manufacturer: Chemtura Corporation

Brand Name: Enhance AW (New Product—New active ingredient fungicide + insecticide combination hopper box powder for small grain cereal seed treatment.)
Active Ingredient: Carboxin plus Captan plus Imidacloprid
Crop Designation: Soybeans, Wheat; Other—barley, oats, dried shelled peas and beans
Application Practice: Seed treatment.
Application Rate: Cereals: 4 fl. oz/cwt.; Soybeans and dry beans: 5 fl. oz/cwt.

A new ready-to-use seed treatment combination fungicide plus insecticide powder for hopperbox/planterbox use on small grain cereals, soybeans and dry beans. Contains the systemic fungicide carboxin and contact fungicide captan for protection against a broad spectrum of seed- and soil-borne diseases. Also includes imidacloprid for protection against aphids, wireworms and other insects such as seed corn maggot, bean leaf beetles.

■ Manufacturer: Chemtura Corporation

Brand Name: Micromite 80 WGS (Label Change—Pests added to label.)
Active Ingredient: Diflubenzuron
Crop Designation: Citrus, Trees, Nuts and Vines—citrus.
Application Practice: Not listed.
Application Rate: 6.25 oz/A

A new insect was added to the label: Asian citrus psyllid.

■ Manufacturer: Chemtura Corporation

Brand Name: Rancona Crest (New Product—Registration expected August 2009, new active ingredient combination for small grain cereal seed treatment)
Active Ingredient: Ipconazole plus metalaxly plus imidacloprid
Crop Designation: Wheat; Other—barley, oats, rye, triticale.
Application Practice: Seed treatment.
Application Rate: 5 to 8.3 fl. oz/cwt.

A new ready-to-use seed treatment combination fungicide plus insecticide for use on small grain cereals. Contains the systemic and contact fungicide ipconazole for protection against a broad spectrum of seed- and soil-borne diseases, with added metalaxyl for pythium protection. Also includes imidacloprid for protection against aphids, wireworms and other insects. Exceptional formulation properties—low dust, strong color, excellent seed coverage and cold seed treating properties.

■ Manufacturer: Dow AgroSciences

Brand Name: Entrust, GF-120 (Label Change)
Active Ingredient: Spinosad
Crop Designation: Vegetables—tomato, pepper, strawberries, cole crops, peaches, citrus, and apples; Citrus, Trees, Nuts and Vines—various.
Application Practice: Not listed.
Application Rate: See label.

Entrust and GF-120 NF Naturalyte Benefit from EU Decision on Organic Inputs
Spinosad listing allows organic growers and packers to export to EU.

The European Union (EU) has included spinosad in its organic listing, Dow AgroSciences announced. This new regulatory action not only allows the use of spinosad containing products in organic agriculture within the EU, but also allows the organic certification of produce treated outside the EU.

“Approval of spinosad by the EU for use in organic agriculture is a noteworthy regulatory milestone. It reflects a growing international consensus regarding the excellent fit of the molecule for organic production systems,” said Ken Racke, U.S. regulatory manager for insecticides, Dow AgroSciences.

Organic crops treated with Entrust and GF-120 NF insecticides may now be imported into the EU and sold under the EU organic logo, provided the crops meet the existing MRL requirements.

■ Manufacturer: Dow AgroSciences

Brand Name: Lorsban Advanced (New Product)
Active Ingredient: Chlorpyrifos
Crop Designation: Corn; Soybeans; Wheat; Cotton; Vegetables; Citrus, Trees, Nuts and Vines.
Application Practice: Not listed.
Application Rate: See label.

Dow AgroSciences recently received federal registration from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for new Lorsban Advanced insecticide. Lorsban Advanced offers the same benefits of Lorsban-4E but uses innovative technology to produce a low-odor, water-based formulation.

Lorsban Advanced contains the active ingredient chlorpyrifos—the same as in Lorsban-4E, one of the most widely used insecticides in agriculture. The new product replaced Lorsban-4E in the marketplace in January 2009.

Lorsban Advanced offers growers superb versatility to control insects in vegetables, pome fruit, tree nuts, grapes, citrus, soybeans, corn, wheat and other crops. The insecticide provides superior control of all cutworm species as well as broad-spectrum control of aphids, scale, spider mites, citrus psylla, lepidopterous insects and other pests.

Tank-mix flexibility is another attribute of Lorsban Advanced. The new product is compatible with miticides, fungicides, nonpressure fertilizer solutions and other insecticides.

■ Manufacturer: DuPont Crop Protection

Brand Name: DuPont Altacor insect control (New Product)
Active Ingredient: Rynaxypyr
Crop Designation: Citrus, Trees, Nuts and Vines—pome fruits, stone fruits grapes. Tree nut label anticipated in 2009.
Application Practice: Insect pest management.
Application Rate: Typically 3 to 4 oz. per acre.

DuPont received registration approval for Altacor insect control from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in May 2008, and has since received state approvals in 47 of the continental states, including California, Georgia, Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington.

Altacor delivers fast-acting and long-lasting protection from codling moths, leafrollers, oriental fruit moths, peach twig borers and other damaging pests. Altacor is registered for use in grapes; pome fruit crops, such as apples and pears; and stone fruit crops, such as peaches and cherries.

The new technology of Rynaxypyr provides highly effective control of target pest species at low use rates, and the ability to preserve beneficial insects when used according to the label, setting a new standard for insect control. This new product provides growers with superior crop protection, the shortest re-entry interval and short pre-harvest intervals. When Altacor is used early in the pest life cycle it prevents the build-up of pest populations, maximizing the yield potential of a crop.

A tree nut label is anticipated in 2009.

■ Manufacturer: DuPont Crop Protection

Brand Name: DuPont Coragen Insect Control (New Product)
Active Ingredient: Rynaxypyr
Crop Designation: Vegetables—leafy vegetables, brassica vegetables, cucurbits, fruiting vegetables.
Application Practice: Integrated Pest Management (foliar and drip).
Application Rate: Typically 3.5 to 7 ounces.

DuPont received registration approval for DuPont Coragen insect control from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in May 2008, and has since received state approvals in 47 of the continental states, including Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas.

Coragen delivers remarkable protection through its fast-acting, long-lasting control of Lepidoptera species and leafminers. Coragen is registered for use on a wide range of vegetable crops, including leafy, fruiting, cucurbit and brassica vegetables.

The new technology of Rynaxypyr provides highly effective control of target pest species at low use rates and application flexibility, setting a new standard for insect control. This new product provides growers with superior crop protection, the shortest re-entry interval and short pre-harvest intervals. When Coragen is used early in the pest life cycle, it prevents the build-up of pest populations, maximizing the yield potential of a crop.

■ Manufacturer: FMC Corporation

Brand Name: Brigadier (New Product)
Active Ingredient: Bifenthrin and imidacloprid
Crop Designation: Vegetables—potatoes, sweet potatoes, brassicas, fruiting vegetables, leafy vegetables and beans; Citrus, Trees, Nuts and Vines—grapes.
Application Practice: Post/foliar.
Application Rate: Range: 3.8 to 9.8 oz/A (See product label for details).

If you are looking for tough protection against pests in your potato, cotton and other high-value vegetable crops, Brigadier insecticide from FMC provides your best bet yet. Its dual mode of action offers fast knockdown and effective protection against Colorado potato beetles, plant bugs, aphids, stink bugs and many other destructive pests. And it gives you excellent residual for prolonged crop protection against sucking and chewing insects without flaring mites. With its dual mode of action, Brigadier also makes an excellent resistance management tool.

■ Manufacturer: FMC Corporation
Brand Name: Hero EW (New Product)
Active Ingredient: Zeta-Cypermethrin and Bifenthrin
Crop Designation: Vegetables—tomatoes, succulent peas/beans, eggplant, peppers, head lettuce, head and stem brassica; Citrus, Trees, Nuts and Vines—pecans.
Application Practice: Post/foliar.
Application Rate: Range: 4.0 to 10.3 oz/A (See product label for details).

Hero is a new generation insecticide providing fast knockdown and longer-lasting control against a broad spectrum of pests. Growers will be able to take advantage of this new Dual-Action Technology in field, seed and sweet corn, cotton, eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, head lettuce, head and stem brassicas, succulent peas and beans and pecans. Hero helps you tackle tough pests, such as mites, aphids, bean leaf beetle, corn earworm, fall armyworm, Western bean cutworm and many others.

■ Manufacturer: FMC Corporation

Brand Name: Mustang Max EW (New Product)
Active Ingredient: S-Cyano and dimethylcyclopropane carboxylate
Crop Designation: Vegetables—leafy vegetables, brassicas and fruiting vegetables; Citrus, Trees, Nuts and Vines—tree nuts, fruiting trees and grapes.
Application Practice: Post/foliar.
Application Rate: 1.28 to 4.0 oz/A (See product label for details).

Labeled for more than 125 crops and five key vegetable crop groups, Mustang Max EW sets the standard for broad-spectrum insect pest control. And because it has resolved isomers, this fast-acting, long-lasting formulation allows you to apply it at lower rates while still getting the same level of control on worms, loopers, beetles and more. What’s more, Mustang Max EW has a 12-hour restricted entry interval and a one-day PHI on many crops.

■ Manufacturer: Makhteshim Agan of North America

Brand Name: Alias 4F (Label Change—Label was expanded to add soybeans and received CA registration for Alias 4F (all uses except soybean)
Active Ingredient: Imidacloprid (4.0 lbs ai/gal)
Crop Designation: Soybeans.
Application Practice: Foliar and soil application for control of insect pests plus at-planting applications for selected crops.
Application Rate: Soybean (1.5 fl oz/A).
The federal label for Alias 4F has been amended to add control of several insect pests of soybeans (soybean aphid, bean leaf beetle, cucumber beetle/rootworm adult, Japanese beetles (adult), leafhoppers, whiteflies). In addition, Alias 4F (all uses except soybean) is now approved for use in California.

■ Manufacturer: Makhteshim Agan of North America

Brand Name: Fanfare 2EC (Label Change—Many new crops added including soybeans, peanuts, and miscellaneous vegetables. Use on tomatoes in California was also approved.)
Active Ingredient: Bifenthrin 2EC
Crop Designation: Soybeans; Peanuts; Vegetables—dried beans and peas, leafy brassicas, okra, tuberous and corm vegetables, tomato (added California); Other—Christmas trees (Oregon and Washington), cilantro, coriander, conifer seed orchards, tobacco, fruiting vegetables (eggplant, pepper, etc), mayhaw, root crops (excluding sugar beets), and garden beets.
Application Practice: Foliar cover sprays for control of insects for most labeled crops, soil application/transplant water application for tobacco and in-furrow planting treatment for tuberous and corm vegetables.
Application Rate: Soybean: 2.1 to 6.4 fl oz/A.
Tuberous and Corm Vegetables (sweet potato): 19.2 fl oz/A (at-plant), 3.2 to 9.6 fl oz/A (lay-by), 2.1 to 6.4 fl oz/A (foliar).
Fruiting Vegetables (eggplants and peppers): 2.1 to 6.4 fl oz/A
Peanut: 2.1 to 6.4 fl oz/A
Tobacco: 2.56 to 6.4 fl oz/A
Dried Beans and Peas: 1.6 to 6.4 fl oz/A
Leafy Brasssicas: 2.1 to 6.4 fl oz/A
Root crops (excludes sugarbeets): 5.12 to 6.4 fl oz/A
Garden beets: 5.12 to 6.4 fl oz/A
Okra: 2.1 to 6.4 fl oz/A
Christmas trees: 3.9 to 6.4 fl oz/A
Cilantro and Coriander: 2.1 to 6.4 fl oz/A
Conifer Seed Orchards: 6.4 to 12.8 fl oz/A
Mayhaw: 5.12 to 6.4 fl oz/A.

Crop uses were expanded to include a number of new uses on soybeans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, vegetables, herbs, trees (conifer orchards and Christmas trees) and tobacco.

■ Manufacturer: Syngenta Crop Protection

Brand Name: Endigo ZC (New Product)
Active Ingredient: Lambda-Cyhalothrin, thiamethoxam
Crop Designation: Soybeans.
Application Practice: Apply by ground, aerial or chemigation methods.
Application Rate: 2.5 to 4.5 fl. oz./A for soybeans.

Endigo ZC with Zeon Technology provides fast knockdown and long residual control, which can lead to higher yields. Providing an ideal use window from early season to the end, Endigo ZC is a convenient and easy way to control insects and enhance your peace of mind throughout the season. Endigo ZC is an excellent rotational partner, helping to protect chemical diversity, and with two modes of action in a single application, is an exceptional fit in a complete soybean insect management program.

■ Manufacturer: Syngenta Crop Protection

Brand Name: Durivo (New Product)
Active Ingredient: Chlorantraniliprole, thiamethoxam
Crop Designation: Vegetables—brassica, cucurbit, fruiting, leafy.
Application Practice: Integrated Pest Management.
Application Rate: 0.10 to 0.13 fl. oz./A.

Syngenta announced federal registration of its new insecticide, Durivo, on Sept. 29, 2008. Durivo is a systemic insecticide that employs two modes of action to protect vegetables from chewing and sucking insects as well as lepidopteran pests. Durivo is an enhanced solution because it contains two modes of action, chlorantraniliprole (CTPR), a new mode of action from the diamide family of insecticides, and thiamethoxam, a member of the neonicotinoid class of chemistry. Durivo has also been shown to enhance plant vigor.

■ Manufacturer: Syngenta Crop Protection

Brand Name: Voliam Flexi (New Product)
Active Ingredient: Chlorantraniliprole, Thiamethoxam
Crop Designation: Vegetables—potatoes; Citrus, Trees, Nuts and Vines—grapes, pome fruit, stone fruit.
Application Practice: Integrated Pest Managemetn.
Application Rate: 0.4 fl. oz./A for potatoes, 4.5 fl. oz./A for grapes, 4.0 to 7.0 fl. oz./A for pome fruit and stone fruit.

Voliam Flexi Insecticide received federal registration in late August 2008 and features two modes of action to protect crops from chewing and sucking insects as well as lepidopteran pests. This new insecticide from Syngenta contains chlorantraniliprole (CTPR), a new mode of action from the diamide family of insecticides and thiamethoxam, a member of the neonicotinoid class of chemistry. Voliam Flexi is a valuable resistance management tool and is highly compatible with Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs.

■ Manufacturer: Syngenta Crop Protection

Brand Name: Voliam Xpress (New Product)
Active Ingredient: Chlorantraniliprole, Lambda-cyhalothrin
Crop Designation: Vegetables—head and leaf lettuce, fruiting, head and stem brassica, cucurbit.
Application Practice: Integrated Pest Management.
Application Rate: 0.5 to 0.8 fl. oz./A or 0.6 to 0.9 fl. oz./A, depending on the crop and the pest to be controlled.

Syngenta announced the federal registration of a new insecticide in September 2008, Voliam Xpress, for use on head and leaf lettuce, fruiting vegetables, head and stem brassicas, and cucurbit vegetables.

Voliam Xpress utilizes two modes of action to protect crops from chewing and sucking insects as well as lepidopteran pests. It contains chlorantraniliprole (CTPR), a new mode of action from the diamide family of insecticides and lambda-cyhalothrin, a third-generation pyrethroid insecticide. The two active ingredients are combined in an enhanced solution that provides fast knockdown and long-lasting residual control of lepidopteran pests, as well as other pests like beetles, plant bugs, stink bugs and leafhoppers.

■ Manufacturer: UPI

Brand Name: Assail Insecticide (Label Change—Approved for additional crops.)
Active Ingredient: Acetamiprid
Crop Designation: Citrus, Trees, Nuts and Vines—stone fruit, tree nuts, edible podded legume vegetables, succulent shelled peas and beans, strawberries and other low growing berries, blue berries and other bush and cane berries; Vegetables—onions and other bulb vegetables.
Application Rate: See label.

Additional crops were added to this label.

■ Manufacturer: UPI

Brand Name: Lambda-Cy EC RUP (Label Change—Approved for additional crops.)
Active Ingredient: Lambda-cyhalothrin
Crop Designation: Vegetables—cucurbits, tuberous and corm vegetables; Other—barley, buckwheat, oats, rye, wild rice.
Application Rate: See label.

Additional crops were added to the label.

■ Manufacturer: Valent

Brand Name: Belay (Label Change—Belay is now registered for seed piece protection in potatoes against such tough pests as Colorado potato beetle and aphids. This new label update gives Belay ultimate application flexibility.)
Active Ingredient: Clothianidin
Crop Designation: Vegetables—potatoes
Application Rate: Seed piece: 0.4 to 0.6 fl oz/cwt. This rate is comparable to the soil treatment rate based on a seeding rate of 2,000 lbs/A.
Soil: 9.6 to 12 fl oz/A.
Foliar: 2 to 3 fl oz/A. Use the high rate when heavy insect pressure is present.

Belay’s new potato seed piece label in 2009 joins the soil and foliar uses launched in 2008. Belay's active ingredient, clothianidin, has longer residual activity and less water solubility than others in the same chemical class, often providing seven to 14 days longer control of insect pests than the competition.

Seed treatment equipment experts report that Belay has excellent mixing and handling properties. Belay also has excellent seed safety and is compatible with commercial fungicide products. Seed piece and in-furrow applications result in comparable long-lasting control in field tests.

■ Manufacturer: Valent

Brand Name: Nipsit INSIDE Insecticide (Label Change—Now registered for seed protection use in sorghum, canola, rapeseed and sugar beets)
Active Ingredient: Clothianidin
Crop Designation: Vegetables—non-GMO sugar beets; Other—sorghum, canola, rapeseed.
Application Rate: Sorghum: 5.1 to 6.4 fl oz/100 lbs seed.
Canola/Rapeseed: 10.23 fl oz/100 lbs seed.
Sugar beets: 3.4 fl oz/pelleted seed unit.

New NipsIt INSIDE Insecticide, when applied to seed, provides long-lasting protection against major pests to help growers maximize stand, yield and plant health. Its state-of-the-art formulation means excellent handling, seed safety and performance. In a convenient universal 5 FS formulation for all crops, NipsIt INSIDE also is compatible with commercial fungicide products.