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Florida Fungicide Pricing and Expectations1
M. A. Mossler2The following list (Table 1 ) has been compiled from various unnamed sources. Each price reflects a blend of the differing use rates for differing crops and sites. Sites where more active ingredient is used per spray (orchards) may have higher costs than those for other crop sites. Likewise, if an active ingredient is used in a specialty site such as golf course, turf, or ornamental, it is likely to cost more per application.
It is important to appreciate the expectations users have for each active ingredient, which is reflected in the price. Materials used as scheduled, prophylactic preventative sprays (e.g. captan, thiram, maneb, mancozeb, coppers, sulfur) generally average between $5/acre and $10/acre.
Materials that give protection from a variety of leaf diseases and control key diseases generally range from $10/acre to $40/acre; but even within similar chemistries prices may vary for several reasons. In the case of strobilurin fungicides, azoxystrobin is labeled for many more crops than the others and has a zero-day pre-harvest interval (PHI) for most crops. Pyraclostrobin is registered on fewer crops, and trifloxystrobin has a 30-day PHI for citrus, the main crop for which it is used in Florida. The longer the PHI, the less flexibility the grower has near harvest. Consequently, there are substantial differences for the pricing of these fungicides.
Materials that are unique (e.g. acibenzolar, mefenoxam, fenhexamid) and manage key pests of high dollar crops or sites generally cost the most, starting at around $40/acre and increasing. Prices for turf/ornamental fungicides (e.g. fenarimol, iprodione), often labeled in terms of ounces per 1,000 square feet can range from $50 to $150 when converted to an acre basis.
Active Ingredient
Price ($/acre)
ACIBENZOLAR 41.90
AZOXYSTROBIN
21.36
Bacillus subtilis
12.03
BOSCALID
23.41
CAPTAN
10.75
CHLOROTHALONIL
18.00
COPPER HYDROXIDE
6.52
COPPER OXYCHLORIDE S
8.31
COPPER SULFATE
5.05
CYMOXANIL
4.14
CYPRODINIL
34.80
DIMETHOMORPH
6.11
FAMOXADONE
5.35
FENBUCONAZOLE
11.93
FENARIMOL
150.00
FENHEXAMID
44.48
FERBAM
37.93
FLUDIOXONIL
19.57
FOSETYL
19.93
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
33.38
IPRODIONE
50.00
MANCOZEB
4.08
MANEB
4.32
MEFENOXAM
43.02
MYCLOBUTANIL
18.28
NEEM OIL
20.84
PETROLEUM OIL
11.22
PHOSPHORIC ACID
9.96
POTASSIUM CARBONATE
42.50
PROPICONAZOLE
4.85
PYRACLOSTROBIN
14.21
PCNB
8.98
SULFUR
8.08
TEBUCONAZOLE
12.07
THIOPHANATE-METHYL
13.45
THIRAM
9.29
TRIFLOXYSTROBIN
7.14
TRIFLUMIZOLE
17.63
Footnotes
1. This document is PI-134, one of a series of the Pesticide Information Office, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date September 2006. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.2. Mark A. Mossler, Doctor of Plant Medicine, Pesticide Information Office, Agronomy Department; Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0710.
The use of trade names in this publication is solely for the purpose of providing specific information. UF/IFAS does not guarantee or warranty the products named, and references to them in this publication does not signify our approval to the exclusion of other products of suitable composition. Use pesticides safely. Read and follow directions on the manufacturer's label.
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