Bedbug Management: The biggest challenge for rural producers

When analyzing what has been happening with bed bug management, it is clear how much a series of facts interfere with this movement and, unfortunately, the reaction only occurs when the situation reaches a peak and directly affects the success of the producer. rural.

Assuming that Brazil is a tropical country with pests that adapt quickly due to the diversity of crops that can serve as hosts, we can highlight three changes that have occurred in the last five years that have strongly favored the bed bug. The suspension of registration of products that were used as a basis for bedbug management (methamidophos and endosulfan) led to the replacement by products with a different technical profile, but which were used in the same way. Additionally, and perhaps the main point of this equation, is the fact that bed bug management has focused on just two modes of action. The second major movement was the change in the product profile for caterpillar control used in the vegetative phase. The growth of specific insecticides for caterpillars, such as IGR's and diamides, meant that stink bug control had no impact on the vegetative phase due to the specificity of these products for caterpillar control.

Returning to the tropical environment and the pest profile with multiple hosts and target crops, it was again favored by the third and final movement (so far). The entry and rapid development of biotechnology (intact soybeans) has profoundly changed the management of caterpillars in soybean cultivation, whether due to the smaller number of applications or even the profile of products used in soybeans during its vegetative phase. Here it is worth a quick analysis that summarizes what happened with these three movements: there was a strong change in the environment and in the management of important pests within the crop, including the stink bug. Connected to this, farmers continued to control stink bugs in the same way they did before all these changes, that is, controlling stink bugs, only in the soybean reproductive system.

To find your way again, you need to go back to the basics and ask some questions: How are the applications going in terms of the number of bed bugs? Is there no posture and nifas at the end of the reproductive period? Why? Monitoring, when it happens, is done from the vegetative stage? If there is monitoring until the end of the soybean cycle, why is there damage to the grain or seed in the last two weeks before harvest? If all this is pure talk, why is the stink bug becoming the biggest challenge for rural producers, whether in terms of their productivity or even the quality of the seeds available to them?

This is where FMC comes in. With the aim of finding alternatives for the success of agribusiness, the company realized this situation and developed management that is closely linked to the moment of the pest, the situation of soybean cultivation as a business and the desires of the rural producer to protect their investment and have a safe activity for yourself and the environment.

The FMC Domain in bedbug control includes more than Mustang, Hero and Talisman products, as it brings a positioning 100% connected with the current scenario. A product for each moment of the crop and with the movement of the pest, which provides productivity protection and more quality seeds. Mustang is unique in controlling stink bugs during planting desiccation, it is also vital for seed producers and those who carry out the corn harvest or wheat planting recommended for pre-harvest applications; Hero is a product with differentiated knockdown that reduces the bedbug population at the end of the vegetative and early reproductive phases, leaving the environment better for successful management in the reproductive phase; Talisman, in the reproductive phase, has an excellent shock effect and effective action in controlling nymphs, it is a complete product.

This is FMC's intention, to be together with producers, attentive to current challenges and willing to do much more for the field.