Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
December 17, 2012
MANA Canada announces the addition of wireworm control in cereal and soybean crops to the Alias® 240 SC label. Alias contains imidacloprid, the same active as Admire®.
“This registration broadens the choice for growers looking to treat their seed with a wireworm insecticide,” explains Andrew Mann, General Manager with MANA Canada. “Previously, other products available in the marketplace were either limited in supply, or much more costly.”
Alias provides early season protection against crop stand injury caused by wireworms. The expanded registration includes variable application rates, allowing growers the flexibility to adjust the rate based on the expected infestation. For convenience, Alias may be mixed or applied sequentially with several commonly used seed treatment fungicides to control wireworms and certain seed and soil-borne pathogens in cereal crops.
“With Alias, growers now have more choice in an insecticide that can be mixed with a fungicide seed treatment. As an additional benefit there is no complicated rebate program or mandatory bundling: just a proven product that is competitively priced,” says Mann. “At MANA Canada we want growers to use products that make sense agronomically and yet provide the best value on their farm.”
Alias is a Group 4A insecticide in the neonicotinoid family that controls wireworms through ingestion. Alias is also registered for control of soybean aphid, bean leaf beetle and seed corn maggot in soybeans.
“Alias gives growers the ability to add a wireworm insecticide to the fungicide seed treatment that they would like to use,” says Phil Somerville, Product Development Manager for MANA Canada. “This flexibility means greater cost control for farmers along with proven wireworm control.”
Alias is a highly effective broad-spectrum insecticide with proven performance on a variety of crops from potatoes and vegetables to tree fruits and blueberries. It controls Colorado potato beetles, aphids, leafhoppers and other pests through a combination of contact and ingestion modes of action.
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