Florida Insecticide, Miticide, and Nematicide Pricing and Expectations
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Florida Insecticide, Miticide, and Nematicide Pricing and Expectations

   

Florida Insecticide, Miticide, and Nematicide Pricing and Expectations1

M. A. Mossler2

The 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. B.t., soaps, oils, endosulfan, malathion, methomyl, pyrethroids, sulfur) generally average between $5/acre and $10/acre.

Materials that control key arthropod or nematode pests generally range from $10/acre to $40/acre; but even within similar chemistries prices may vary for several reasons. In the case of nicotinoid insecticides, imidacloprid is labeled for many more crops than the others. Acetamiprid is registered on fewer crops, and although thiamethoxam is also registered for fewer crops, it can be used as a soil or foliar treatment. Consequently, there are substantial differences for the pricing of these insecticides.

Materials that are unique (e.g. aldicarb, etoxazole, hexythiazox, spirodiclofen, and fumigant nematicides) and manage key pests of high dollar crops or sites generally cost the most, starting at around $40/acre and increasing to over ten times that much for methyl bromide fumigation.

Tables

Table 1.

Active Ingredient


 Price ($/acre)
ABAMECTIN


43.36
ACEPHATE


 10.26
ACETAMIPRID


 13.21
ALDICARB


50.29
AZADIRACHTIN


 17.46
AZINPHOS-METHYL


 16.52
Bacillus thuringiensis


8.00
BIFENAZATE


 31.25
BIFENTHRIN


 20.60
CALCIUM POLYSULFIDE


 0.63
CARBARYL


 11.61
CARBOFURAN


 30.94
CHLORPYRIFOS


 9.21
CYFLUTHRIN


4.82
CYHALOTHRIN-LAMBDA


 5.91
CYPERMETHRIN


 3.00
CYROMAZINE


 33.04
DIAZINON


 11.85
DICOFOL


 24.00
DICROTOPHOS


 3.32
DIFLUBENZURON


 26.97
DIMETHOATE


 4.42
EMAMECTIN


 32.00
ENDOSULFAN


6.33
ESFENVALERATE


 5.22
ETHOPROP


 26.20
ETOXAZOLE


 66.15
FENBUTATIN OXIDE


 29.84
FENPROPATHRIN


 11.27
GARLIC JUICE


 8.70
HEXYTHIAZOX


70.20
IMIDACLOPRID


 61.35
INDOXACARB


 16.80
MALATHION


 2.00
METHAMIDOPHOS


 12.29
METHOMYL


 7.23
METHOXYFENOZIDE


 21.66
METHYL PARATHION


 5.26
NALED


 6.79
OXAMYL


 29.84
PERMETHRIN


5.94
PETROLEUM OIL


 11.44
PHORATE


 22.70
POTASSIUM OLEATE


 5.23
PROPARGITE


 31.25
PYMETROZINE


9.55
PYRIDABEN


 40.38
PYRIPROXYFEN


 53.97
SPINOSYN


 22.02
SPIRODICLOFEN


 43.76
SPIROMESIFEN


 18.90
SULFUR


 7.30
TEBUFENOZIDE


 12.27
TEFLUTHRIN


 24.54
TERBUFOS


 18.80
THIAMETHOXAM


 22.67
THIODICARB


 8.13
ZETA-CYPERMETHRIN


 4.17
CHLOROPICRIN


 181.00
DICHLOROPROPENE


 51.29
FENAMIPHOS


 29.06
METAM


67.50
METHYL BROMIDE


 573.00

Footnotes

1. This document is PI-135, 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 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.

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other extension publications, contact your county Cooperative Extension service.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Larry Arrington, Dean.


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