A CruiserMaxx® Beans brand is an insecticide and fungicide seed treatment combination that provides soybean growers with first-class protection against harmful insects and diseases that negatively affect crop quality and yield. The first commercial insecticide/fungicide seed treatment combination on the market for soybeans, CruiserMaxx Beans protects seeds and seedlings against a wide range of yield-threatening insects and diseases to help increase stand and vigor, promote earlier canopy closure and improve yield potential.
Supplying protection from the moment the seed is planted, CruiserMaxx Beans provides a larger window of time to scout for insect infestations, and reduces the threat of damage from insect populations already present in the field and from insects that move into the field from adjacent fields or areas. CruiserMaxx Beans may also decrease the spread of insect-transmitted viruses by reducing the level and duration of insect feeding. Maximum soybean yields are often achieved with a combination of a CruiserMaxx Beans seed treatment and a foliar application of Warrior II with Zeon Technology® insecticide later in the season.
Insect Protection- Aphids
- Bean leaf beetle
- Seedcorn maggot
- Wireworm
- White grub
- Grape colaspis
- Leafhopper
- Threecornered alfalfa hopper
- Thrips
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Disease Protection- Pythium
- Early-season Phytophthora
- Rhizoctonia
- Fusarium
- Seed-borne Sclerotinia (white mold)
- Seed-borne Phomopsis
- General seed rots
Product Benefits
The combination of separately registered component products making up CruiserMaxx Beans provide the following benefits:
- Offers proven insect and disease protection for increased vigor, stand, speed to canopy and higher yield potential
- Helps optimize seeding rates by protecting every seed to ensure plant establishment
- Via the Thiamethoxam Vigor effect, the Cruiser® insecticide component may offer growers more robust and vigorous plants even in the absence of insect pests (U.S. Patent No. 6,753,296).
- Protects the genetic yield potential of high-value seed.
- Provides increased performance, yield and return on investment potential versus competitive products.
University and independent field tests conducted under heavy insect pressure have shown a significant soybean yield response to CruiserMaxx Beans treatments. Research by independent consultants and universities has confirmed that CruiserMaxx Beans provides an excellent yield protection on soybeans planted within a range of planting dates. CruiserMaxx Beans is one or more separately registered products or combination of products containing the following: CruiserMaxx®; CruiserMaxx and Apron XL®; Cruiser®, Maxim®, Apron XL; or Cruiser and an ApronMaxx brand fungicide. Warrior with Zeon Technology is a Restricted Use Pesticide. Cruiser Maxx®, CruiserMaxx®, Apron XL®, Cruiser®, Maxim®, ApronMaxx® and Warrior with Zeon Technology® are trademarks of a Syngenta Group Company.