Cotton Seed Treatments

Delta and Pine Land Company (D&PL) currently offers several seed treatment options for use on our cotton seed product line. These offerings include both standard fungicide and insecticide packages.

You can download a list of our treatments (in Microsoft Excel format) by clicking here.

The standard fungicide packages include active ingredients with efficacy directed toward early season diseases which often limit stand establishment and adversely affect plant health, particularly in harsh early season environments. Rhizoctonia, pythium, thielaviopsis, and various other early-season pathogens often reduce cotton stands. With the inclusion of the most efficacious and economical fungicidal seed treatments in our standard fungicide package, growers are presented with maximum opportunity to take full advantage of the superior genetics and transgenes purchased in D&PL varieties.

Seed treatment insecticides are included as options in the D&PL product portfolio. These treatments are primarily directed toward providing control of early season thrips/aphids. Currently, Gaucho Grande® (imidicloprid), Acephate 80S, and Cruiser® (thiamethoxam) are offered as optional treatments by D&PL. In general, insecticidal seed treatments offer growers extremely good insect control in combination with the added benefits of convenience, increased worker safety, and superior value as compared with other applied insecticide options.

D&PL is also offering Dynasty CST® and DEL-MAX® as premium fungicide packages. They provide protection against a broad spectrum of seed-borne and soil-borne diseases in cotton, including Fusarium, Pythium, and pre- and post-emergent Rhizoctonia and they deliver enhanced plant vigor and yield.

D&PL is also offering AVICTA Complete PAK® which offers cotton growers an innovative and convenient seed-delivered technology designed to effectively protect cotton seedlings against all early season pests ― nematodes, insects and diseases using a three in one technology. AVICTA Complete Pak is a combination of three separately-registered products: AVICTA, a novel seed treatment nematicide, Cruiser® seed treatment insecticide, and Dynasty CST® seed-delivered fungicide.

Seed treatments offer growers additional tools for use in their cotton production system. In combination with superior D&PL varieties, seed treatments, whether fungicidal or insecticidal, have the potential to preserve value, reduce risk, and to increase the profit potential for cotton producers Beltwide.

Standard Treatment Options

All seed will be treated with one of these base fungicide packages:
Gustafson Fungicide Package:	RTU® Baytan Flowable, Thiram Flowable, Allegience, Lorsban® 30 Flowable
Syngenta Fungicide Package:	Maxim®, Systhane® 40 WP, Apron® XL

Premium Treatment Options

These premium treatment options are offered with the above standard fungicide packages:
Cruiser
Dynasty CST
Gaucho Grande
Acephate 80S
DEL-MAX
AVICTA Complete Pak

Treatment Component Descriptions

Acephate 80S	Offers early season systemic protection from thrips and aphids.
Gaucho Grande	Offers early-season systemic protection from thrips and aphids.
Dynasty CST	A systemic fungicide that provides protection against a broad spectrum of seed-borne and soil-borne diseases in cotton, including Fusarium, Pythium, and pre- and post-emergent Rhizoctonia and delivers enhanced plant vigor and yield.
DEL-MAX	A systemic fungicide that provides protection against a broad spectrum of seed-borne and soil-borne diseases in cotton, including Fusarium, Pythium, and pre- and post-emergent Rhizoctonia and delivers enhanced plant vigor and yield.
Cruiser	A systemic insecticide which provides protection against early-season pests such as aphids, Western Flower Thrips and Tobacco Thrips.
RTU® Baytan Flowable	A systemic fungicide that is highly effective against Rhizoctonia seedling disease. It has the ability to be picked up by the emerging root system in high rainfall conditions and offers 14-21 days of protection after planting.
Allegience	Applied for 14-21 day protection from Pythium. It provides excellent systemic seed protection in conditions of higher and moderate soil moisture conditions.
Thiram Flowable	Effective against a wide range of seed and soil-borne pathogens, including Fusarium spp. Individually, these pathogens are not as big a problem as Pythium and Rhizoctonia, but collectively they can still cause problems.
Lorsban® 30 Flowable	Provides insect control before planting. It guards against pests that attack cotton seed while it’s still in the bag.
Maxim®	A fungicide which has activity against many common soil-borne and seed-borne fungi, including Rhizoctonia and Fusarium which cause damping off, decay and seedling blights.
Systhane® 40 WP	A broad-spectrum, systemic fungicide active against several soil fungal pathogens.
Apron® XL	A systemic fungicide effective in controlling Pythium. It contains the more biologically active half of the original Apron® compound.

Allegience®, and RTU® are registered trademarks of Gustafson, LLC.
Bollgard® and Roundup Ready® are registered trademarks of Monsanto.
Baytan® and Gaucho Grande® are registered trademarks of Bayer Ag.
D&PL® and DEL-MAX® are registered trademark of Delta and Pine Land Company.
Dynasty CST®, Maxim®, Apron® XL and Cruiser® are registered trademarks of Syngenta.
Systhane® and Lorsban® are registered trademarks of DowAgroscience.