Product Information

Poncho® Beta seed treatment provides a convenient way to get excellent early-season protection against insect pests to help maximize stand counts, increase recoverable sugar and improve profit per acre.

  • Poncho Beta contains two active ingredients in a new formulation to act as a defense against damaging soil and foliar insect pressure.
  • Gives convenient, on-the-seed pest protection from injury caused by leafhopper, root maggot, flea beetle, wireworm, black cutworm, springtail, black bean aphid and leaf miner.
  • Poncho Beta provides rapid initial insect protection and long-lasting efficacy to help maximize stand counts, increase recoverable sugar and improve profit per acre.
  • Poncho Beta is applied on the seed by sugarbeet seed companies and is expected to be available on most brands and varieties of sugarbeet seed.

Key Benefits

  • Broad spectrum protection from injury caused by leafhopper, root maggot, flea beetle, wireworm, black cutworm, springtail, black bean aphid, and leaf miner.
  • Quicker, easier planting through reduced at-planting applications.
  • Reduction of beet curly top virus by preventing transmission by the beet leafhopper.

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Registered Crops

  • Sugarbeets

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Key Pests Controlled:

  • Leafhopper
  • Maggot, Sugar Beet Root
  • Beetle, Flea

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