Syngenta is bringing a cereals seed treatment to market offering two kinds of activity on wireworms in Canada.
Equento Cereals has six active ingredients, including a new Group 30 insecticide.
“We’re launching a new ingredient called PLINAZOLIN,” Justin Bouvier, product lead for Seedcare with Syngenta Canada, told Farms.com. “The biggest benefit with this active ingredient is that it provides a reliable wireworm mortality solution.”
It also provides protection against European chafer.
In total, the seed treatment has four fungicides and two insecticides.
Its other ingredients are the Group 4 insecticide thiamethoxam, Group 3 fungicide difenoconazole, Group 7 fungicide sedaxane, Group 4 fungicide metalaxyl-M (& S-isomer), and Group 12 fungicide fludioxonil.