USA
December 3, 2012

Source: Syngenta FarmAssist

Insects like flea beetles can easily chew apart a sunflower field, while diseases can pose a challenge for seedlings to become established. WithCruiserMaxx® Sunflower seed treatment insecticide/fungicide combination from Syngenta, your growers receive convenient, early-season protection from the moment the seed hits the soil. This early defense helps provide even stand establishment and improved crop health.

Applied by commercial seed companies, CruiserMaxx Sunflower is a combination of four separately registered products - Cruiser® insecticide and Dynasty®, Maxim® 4FS and Apron XL® fungicides. Cruiser protects against several insects, including wireworm, flea beetle and sunflower beetle, while the fungicides defend against fungal pathogens that disrupt stand establishment, including Pythium, Fusarium, downy mildew and Rhizoctonia. 4X Dynasty provides enhanced performance against downy mildew when applied at the higher labeled rate and offers an additional mode of action for hybrids with genetic resistance and suppression in hybrids without genetic resistance.

While CruiserMaxx Sunflower provides excellent all-around protection from insects, the seed treatment also helps establish even stands for better yields. By protecting the sunflower plant from pathogens and insects during germination and early development, CruiserMaxx Sunflower enhances plant vigor and increases yield potential. For these reasons, the treatment is ideal for growers in all regions. Retailers have seen the effectiveness and convenience of CruiserMaxx Sunflowers, and it remains popular among growers.

Proven to improve stand establishment, enhance vigor and increase yield potential, CruiserMaxx Sunflower will be available for the 2013 growing season in your area. For all of the latest sunflower news from Syngenta, visit FarmAssist.com. Follow Syngenta on Twitter or Facebook.
 

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Published: December 30, 2012