FMC’s Elevest Insect Control Receives U.S. EPA Approval for Label Expansion to Include New Crops and Application Use
The EPA has approved a label expansion for FMC’s Elevest insect control, extending its use across key specialty crops and adding a new application method for row crops.
The updated label now allows use of Elevest insect control in brassica, cucurbit and fruiting vegetables, pome and stone fruits, strawberries and tree nuts — pistachios, hazelnuts and walnuts. With this label expansion, specialty crop growers gain an additional tool to control Lepidopteran, sucking and chewing pests, including leaffooted bugs, plant bugs, stink bugs, navel orangeworm, peach twig borer, codling moth and more.
For row crop growers, it expands their ability to use and apply Elevest insect control, with the option of soil-applied in-furrow applications at planting. This application method delivers greater flexibility in how and when row crop growers manage key pests in-furrow (seedcorn maggot, wireworm and cutworm), which is in addition to the pest spectrum the solution controls when applied foliarly: armyworms, billbugs, corn rootworms, cotton bollworm, corn earworm, soybean looper and, particularly, notoriously hard-to-control stink bugs.
Elevest insect control combines the industry-leading Lepidopteran control of Rynaxypyr active with the fast knockdown and broad-spectrum action of bifenthrin in a convenient premix — the ultimate combination of the right active ingredients at the right ratio. Together, these proven modes of action provide extended activity against key pests that threaten yield and quality.
“The label expansion of Elevest insect control provides growers with a single, highly effective solution to manage a broader spectrum of pests along with greater application flexibility. Ultimately, providing another tool in protecting specialty and row crops,” says Eric Castner, regional technical service manager for FMC U.S. “This is also another example of how we at FMC are working to expand growers’ access to more effective crop protection tools and application methods that help them address their challenging pest spectrum and protect their crop investment.”
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