Garst Seed Company

Seed Treatments

Combining Four Great Products to Help Yield One Successful Crop

This season, nearly all Garst corn hybrids will be protected with Cruiser Extreme® 250 seed treatment insecticide. Cruiser Extreme 250 is a combination of four active ingredients that deliver .25mg ai/seed of Cruiser® (thiamethoxam) plus three fungicides: Apron®XL, Maxim®XL and Dynasty®. Cruiser Extreme 250 offers growers superior protection against a broad spectrum of early-season insect pests, as well as enhanced disease protection against all four major fungal groups to help provide outstanding crop quality and enhance yield potential.

Advantages of Cruiser Extreme 250

Allows corn crop to get off to a fast, vigorous start
Helps improve plant stand, vigor and yeild
Superior insect and disease protection
Systemic protection against early-season sucking and chewing insect pests
Studies show that adding Dynasty® to the standard fungicide package can increase plant stands and yield
Conveniently delivered in the bag already treated
All product components applied at low use rates
Polymer system added to imporve handling and plantability
Excellent crop, work and environmental profile

Insect Protection Wireworm Chinch Bug Seedcorn Maggot Southern Corn Leaf Beetle Corn Flea Beetle Black Cutworm White Grub* Grape Colaspis Thrips Southern Green Stinkbug Seedcorn Beetle Sugarcane Beetle Corn Leaf Aphid Corn Rootworm Billbug	Disease Control Seed-borne diseases Alternaria Fusarium Cladosporium Helminthosporium Diplodia Aspergillus Pencillium Soil-borne diseases Rhizoctonia Phythium Fusarium
		Black Cutworm


* Including Japanese Beetle Larvae, European Chafer Larvae, True White Grub, Annual White Grub and May/June Beetle Larvae ** Requires the highter application rate of Cruiser (1.25 mg ai/seed) available in Cruiser Extreme 1250. See label. Corn Rootworm protection includes Mexican, Northern, Southern and Western varieties

*Garst will also offer limited supplies of the following two corn seed treatments for 2008 planting; check with your Garst Dealer regarding these corn treatments:*

	Cruiser Extreme® 1250 (1.25 mg a.i./seed) is effective against the major pests listed above plus Corn Rootworms and Southern Corn Billbugs as claimed by the manufacturer.

	Poncho 250 seed-applied insecticide protects both seed and seedlings from the damaging effects of Wireworms, Cutworms, White Grubs, Seedcorn Maggot, Grape Colaspis, Flea Beetles (to the 4th true leaf), Southern Corn Leaf Beetle, Chinch Bug, Southern Green Stink Bug, Aphids, Thrips and other insect pests, through both systemic and contact activity. (Poncho 250 treated corn seed will provide little to no control of Corn Rootworms.)

With it’s unique blue colorant and a small amount of polymer, ProCoat - driven by the power of ApronMaxx or Cruiser Maxx™ Beans - is the best looking and top performing soybean seed treatment available. ProCoat comes ready to plant with the seed already treated in the bag.

Insect and Disease Management for Soybeans

CruiserMaxx Beans brand product is an insecticide and fungicide seed treatment combination htat provides soybean growers with first-class protection against harmful insects and diseases that negatively affect crop quality and yield. CruiserMaxx Beans may also decrease the spread of insect-transmitted viruses by reducing the amount and duration of insect feeding. CruiserMaxx Beans protects soybean seed adn seedlings aainst a broad spectrum of seed and foliar-feeding insects and all major seed- and soil-borne fungal disease pathogens, resulting in improved stand establishments, increased vigor and enhanced yield potential.

ApronMaxx® brandseed treatments contribute to the assurance of asuccessful crop by providing effective protection against early-season soybean seedling and seed-borne diseases such as Pythium, early-season Phytophthora, Rhizoctonia, Fusarium, seed-borne Phomopsis, Aspergillus, Penicillium, seed-borne Sclerotinia and general seed rots.

Syngenta Seed Treatments Offer Sorghum Growers a Full Line of Protection
Until the last decade, sorghum growers had a limited arsenal for controlling soil and foliar insect pests. At planting, in-furrow granular and liquid materials were available but they were time-consuming to apply. Worker safety and handling were also a concern with these older chemistries. Now, insect seed treatments enable a producer to buy the protection on the seed, doing away with cumbersome chemical applications. At Garst, you can order your sorghum seed treated with Concep®III Safened Seed or Concep®III Safened Seed plus Cruiser®.
The superior performance of Cruiser is based on its chemistry. Its active ingredient, thiamethoxam, is derived from a subclass of neonicotiniod chemistry. It controls target pestes by interfering with receptors in the nervous system that transmit the message to continue eating. Cruiser acts on different mode of action sites in the insect thatn do organophosphates, carbamates or pyrethroids. Cruiser protects the sorghum crop in two ways. First, it protects the seed prior to emergence from below-ground culprits like Wireworm that can destroy a crop before it gets started. Second, it translocates through the sorghum plant as it emerges, providing systemic protection from above-ground pests like Chinch bugs, Greenbugs and Yellow Sugarcane Aphids several weeks into the season. Simply put, Cruiser seed treatment insecticide brings growers a clear advantage in performance and more consistent protection from the most destructive sorghum pests.
Helps increase stand, uniformity and vigor,and protects yield potential Works in variable weather conditions Saves time in planting Excellent crop, worker and environmental profile Effective at low use rates	Protects grain and forage sorghum from herbicide injury Allows the use of Dual® and Bicep® brand herbicides for pre-emergent grass and broadleaf weed control

	Cruiser Sunflower Seed Treatment will provide protection from early-season soil and foliar insects, such as Sunflower Beetles, Wireworms, and Striped Flea Beetles allowing your sunflower crop to get off to a fast virgorous start.

	Cruiser Maxx Sunflower Seed Treatment will provide the benefits of Cruiser as well as downy mildew suppression with the addition of Dynasty fungicide.

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Seed Treatments

Combining Four Great Products to Help Yield One Successful Crop

Syngenta Seed Treatments Offer Sorghum Growers a Full Line of Protection