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Poncho Beta makes for a sweeter world.

Product Information

Poncho® Beta seed treatment provides a convenient way to get excellent early-season protection against insect pests to help maximize stand counts, increase recoverable sugar and improve profit per acre. Poncho Beta contains two active ingredients in a formulation to act as a defense against damaging soil and foliar insect pressure. Poncho Betas gives convenient, on-the-seed pest protection from injury caused by leafhopper, root maggot, flea beetle, wireworm, black cutworm, springtail, black bean aphid and leaf miner. It is applied on the seed by sugarbeet seed companies and is expected to be available on most brands and varieties of sugarbeet seed.

Registered Crops

  • Sugarbeets

Product Key Benefits

  • Broad spectrum protection from injury caused by leafhopper, root maggot, flea beetle, wireworm, black cutworm, springtail, black bean aphid, and leaf miner.
  • Quicker, easier planting through reduced at-planting applications.
  • Reduction of beet curly top virus by preventing transmission by the beet leafhopper.
  • Rapid initial and long lasting efficacy for maximum stand counts and increased recoverable sugar.

Key Pests

  • Leafhopper
  • Maggot, Sugar Beet Root
  • Beetle, Flea

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Bayer CropScience Continues Tradition of Sugarbeet Scholarship Donations

03/31/2011 Donations to scholarship programs made in honor of six sugarbeet farmers.

Season ends Sweeter for Sugarbeet Growers

12/02/2010 Poncho® Beta shows good early-season results, and five farmers win

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Pecans are native to the Mississippi Valley area.

Source: University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service