Gaucho is a seed applied insecticide used for years in cotton and canola. It is effective in protecting corn from wireworms, seed corn maggots, and other insect pests.
Activity is both systemic and by contact.
Stands are improved, plants are healthier, and overall crop performance is improved. Up until this year, Gaucho has been cost prohibitive to apply to commercial hybrid seed corn. Seed companies have used Gaucho on inbred seed stock to improve stands of fragile corn inbreds. This year, an improved formulation, the design and sale of a new seed coating machine, and an interest in establishing Gaucho in the seed corn market, Gustafson has developed a program designed to capture a large part of the hybrid seed corn market. Testing the past several years has shown a response, but this past year, the results have been more dramatic.