Poncho Beta Seed Treatment
Seed TreatmentPoncho® 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 formulation to act as a defense against damaging soil and foliar insect pressure. Poncho Beta provides convenient, on-the-seed pest protection from injury caused by leafhoppers, root maggots, flea beetles, wireworms, black cutworms, springtail, black bean aphids and leaf miners. It 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
Active Ingredients | BETA-CYFLUTHRIN 4.6 %, Clothianidin 34.3 % |
Chemical Group(s) | 3A, 4A |
Formulation | 3.77# ai/gal FS |
Registration Number | 0000264-01056-AA-0000000 |
- Aphid, Black Bean
- Beetle, Flea
- Cutworm
- Leafhopper
- Leafminer
- Maggot, Sugar Beet Root
- Springtail, Subterranean
- Wireworm
- Beet, Sugar
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE)
Some materials that are chemical-resistant to this product are listed below. If you want more options, follow the instructions for category C on an EPA chemical resistance category selection chart.
Workers involved with treating the seed (e.g. connecting and disconnecting hoses and transfer pumps, mixing, equipment calibration, etc.) and others exposed to the concentrate, and cleaners/repairers of seed treatment equipment must wear a long-sleeved shirt and long pants, chemical-resistant gloves (such as nitrile, butyl, neoprene, barrier laminate, polyvinyl chloride or Viton), shoes plus socks and a dust/mist filtering respirator (MSHA/NIOSH approval number prefix TC-21C).
Baggers and bag sewers must wear a long-sleeved shirt and long pants, shoes plus socks, and a dust/mist filtering respirator (MSHA/NIOSH approval number prefix TC-21C).
Follow manufacturers instructions for cleaning/maintaining PPE. If no instructions for washables, use detergent and hot water. Keep and wash PPE separately from other laundry.
NOTE: For all workers that handle all seed treatment steps like loading, treating, bagging and sewing/boxing, alone on a daily basis, the following additional PPE must be worn:
- Double layer clothing
- A respirator with an organic-vapor removing cartridge with a prefilter approved for pesticides (MSHA/ NIOSH approval number prefix TC-23C), or a canister approved for pesticides (MSHA/NIOSH approval number prefix TC-14-G), or a NIOSH-approved respirator with an organic vapor (OV) cartridge or canister with any N, R or P or HE prefilter.