AERIS Claims:
Seed-delivered fungicides are optional.
Avicta® Complete Cotton Sets the Record Straight:
Growers across the Cotton Belt lost an excess of $1.5 billion in yield due to cotton seedling diseases over a seven year period, according to the National Cotton Council. With dollar figures like these, it is evident that complete pest management is crucial during the early-season when diseases come into play. One of the primary advantages of Avicta Complete Cotton is its comprehensive approach to "complete" early-season pest control. Seed treatment fungicides protect the roots early in the season which help insecticides and nematicides work better, ultimately producing more consistent results. Trying to recover from poor stands due to diseases can cut into your profits. Don’t take chances – use Avicta Complete Cotton.
AERIS Claims:
The best level and length of thrips protection currently available in a seed treatment.
Avicta Complete Cotton Sets the Record Straight:
Avicta Complete Cotton and Cruiser have consistently outperformed Gaucho® Grande in university trials when applied at marketed application rates. Plus, Cruiser (containing the active ingredient thiamethoxam) is the only seed–applied insecticide recommended for western flower thrips in West Texas.The 2006 planting season was cold and wet, causing plants to grow slowly and inhibiting them from metabolizing systemic products. However, when comparing Avicta Complete Cotton side-by-side with Temik in trials, performance was good.
True Nematicide, Not Just Nematistatic
Nematodes don’t take it easy on your cotton, so why should you take it easy on them?
It’s a fact: the nematicide component of Avicta® Complete Cotton, Avicta (abamectin), is a true nematicide, delivering immediate nematode protection from day one to promote stronger stands and emergence, and build the foundation for better yield and return on investment potential. The active ingredient in Aeris™, thiodicarb, is nematistatic, only stunning nematodes, not killing them.
With five years of field testing and hundreds of university and consultant trials, Avicta Complete Cotton is proven to offer effective nematode protection in low to high nematode-infested fields.
- Data indicates that abamectin is 470 times more active on root-knot nematodes than thiodicarb.
- When using abamectin less than 10 percent of nematodes survive (nematicidal).
- While using thiodicarb 80 percent of nematodes survive (nematistatic).
Avicta Complete Cotton ― Clearly the Best
Except for gloves, you’re probably wearing all the gear you need to plant cotton seed treated with Avicta Complete Cotton
Cotton seed treated with Avicta Complete Cotton is not only an innovative alternative for protecting cotton from early-season pests. In addition, the EPA granted reduced-risk* status for seed treated with Avicta Complete Cotton when compared to the in-furrow use of, aldicarb (Temik®).
PPE requirements for handling seed treated with Avicta Complete Cotton are identical to Cruiser®, Dynasty CST® and other common seed treatments.
- Long-sleeved shirt
- Long pants
- Shoes and socks
- Protective gloves
Dynasty CST: The True Winner
Don’t be fooled into thinking your cotton seed doesn’t need early-season disease protection. Seed-delivered fungicides not only offer disease management at the start of the season when soils can be cool and wet, they also can actually improve the effectiveness of seed treatment nematicides and insecticides by protecting the roots of the cotton plant.
Because AERIS does not contain a seed-applied fungicide, it does not have built-in disease protection, leaving seeds and seedlings vulnerable to early-season disease attack.
Dynasty CST, the seed-delivered fungicide component of Avicta Complete Cotton, is:
- the only systemic seed treatment strobilirin (azoxystrobin).
- the most effective seed treatment against post-emergent Rhizoctonia.
Avicta Complete Cotton Advantages
- Breakthrough method of managing nematodes, insects and diseases.
- Protects cotton from all important nematode species.
- Enhanced protection against a broad spectrum of insect pests, including thrips and aphids.
- Superior seed-delivered protection against most important early-season diseases such as Fusarium, Pythium and pre- and post-emergent Rhizoctonia.
- Promotes vigorous and healthy cotton seedlings.
- Improved yield and return on investment potential.
- Improves efficiency and use of labor during planting.
- Excellent environmental and worker profile.
- Improved early-season pest management flexibility.
* A reduced-risk pesticide use is defined as one which may reasonably be expected to accomplish one or more of the following: (1) reduces pesticide risks to human health; (2) reduces pesticide risks to non-target organisms; (3) reduces the potential for contamination of valued, environmental resources, or (4) broadens adoption of IPM or makes it more effective. Avicta 500 FS qualifies under one or more of the above criteria.
Avicta® Duo Cotton is a Restricted Use Pesticide.