Legacy Earned…Legacies Return
April 17, 2009 Some cotton pesticides that hit the market in past were pushed aside when novel new-generation chemistries became available.
When the glyphosate-tolerant trait was introduced, it revolutionized cotton weed control like no other product. The original non-selective glyphosate product was marketed as Round Up.
Bt technology did the same with insect control.
But what we quickly discovered was that target pests developed resistance with spray after spray after spray of the same chemistry.
What to do?
Some of the herbicides growers counted on in the past had left glyphosate a legacy of effective and economical control. Those Legacy Products are now standard recommendations to be used to extend the life of glyphosate by providing alternate chemistries as stand-alones or in tank mixes with glyphosate.
With Bt taking care of budworms and bollworms, what we considered secondary pests became primary pests. Growers are now battling plant bugs, thrips, aphids, stink bugs and others. Enter the Legacy Product insecticides. The standard recommendation is to avoid using the same chemistry back-to-back. Some of the popular on-seed treatments have the same active ingredients as some foliar sprays. And that counts as using the same chemistries back-to-back. The Legacy Products in the carbamate, organophosphate, pyrethroid and neonicotinoid classes provide the rotational alternatives needed.
To make those products readily available, enter the Legacy Product companies.
“We provide proven chemistry that if not otherwise made commercially available would limit grower input decisions,” says John Guion, MANA’s senior marketing manager for insecticides. “MANA continues to steward and maintain broad post-patent product labels and programs that preserve other chemical use through the option of rotating chemistry and resistance management”
Adds Cheminova’s Marketing and Portfolio Manager, ANZAC Region, Brent Crossland “Legacy Products bring newly refined innovation in formulation and application technologies to provide excellent performance results on their own merits. They can provide results equal to or uniquely different from newer active-ingredient offerings. Our products play an important role in IPM programs for sustainable, broad-spectrum control of insects and weeds.”
- for more on AMVAC’s line of pesticides.
- to read about MANA’s crop protection products.
- for information on Nufarm’s PGRs and defolian products.
- to learn about the insecticide line from UPI.
- for more on the resistance management program from Cheminova.
- for information on Chemtura’s line of defoliants.
- to read more about the products of J. Oliver.
- to learn more about herbicides offered by the HIDE Group.
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