EPA Registers CruiserMaxx Vibrance Elite

Threats from seedborne and soilborne pests can begin once you plant your cereal crop. These threats can impact stand, emergence, and yield potential. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency registered CruiserMaxx^® Vibrance^® Elite seed treatment, a premix that protects against seedborne and soilborne diseases with two modes of action on Pythium, Fusarium and Rhizoctonia, which helps manage disease resistance. It also has activity on a broad spectrum of insect pests, including aphids and Hessian fly.

CruiserMaxx Vibrance Elite offers proven results from advanced components:

• Vayantis^® seed treatment is a solution for high-pressure Pythium situations, including metalaxyl and mefenoxam-resistant isolates.
  • Research from Washington State University shows Pythium is likely to infect unprotected wheat seed within the first 24 to 48 hours after planting into moist soils.
• Maxim^® 4FS seed treatment offers an additional mode of action on Fusarium as well as protecting against other seed and soilborne fungi that cause damping-off, seed decay, seedling blight and snow mold.
• Vibrance^® seed treatment delivers best-in-class Rhizoctonia activity and Rooting Power that leads to strong roots and improved plant stands.
• An increased rate of Cruiser^® 5FS seed treatment provides early-season insect protection and the Cruiser Vigor Effect, which helps enhance germination, increase vigor, improve stand establishment and deliver better yield potential.

CruiserMaxx Vibrance Elite helps produce stands that will deliver to your bottom line. In in-house trials of Pythium-inoculated winter wheat, results showed an average of 18% greater plant stand and a 3.3 bu/A yield increase than treatments where the combination of mefenoxam and ethaboxam were used for Pythium control.¹

You can count on CruiserMaxx Vibrance Elite to protect the genetic potential of each high-value seed. It will be available for use on both the winter and spring 2026 wheat crops.

To learn more about the benefits of upgrading to CruiserMaxx Vibrance Elite, talk to your Syngenta representative.

¹ Averages from two Syngenta in-house trials: USND0T2012023; Garden Plains, KS. USNW0T0032023; Saint James, MI.