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  "source_key": "dekalb-dkc52-99rib",
  "vendor": "Bayer",
  "brand": "DEKALB",
  "product_name": "DKC52-99RIB BRAND BLEND",
  "product_id": "CORN_DKC52-99RIB BRAND BLEND_DEKALB_US",
  "hybrid_prefix": "DKC52-99RIB",
  "hybrid_suffix": "BRAND BLEND",
  "crop": "corn",
  "release_year": 2022,
  "relative_maturity": "102",
  "maturity_group": null,
  "wheat_class": null,
  "trait_stack": [
    "TRERIB"
  ],
  "trait_descriptions": [
    "Trecepta™ RIB Complete® corn blend"
  ],
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  "strengths": [
    "Good stalk and root strength has been shown with this product",
    "Has shown very good performance stability; ear consistency and very good kernel depth",
    "Very good greensnap tolerance and good Goss's Wilt tolerance for Western movement",
    "Can provide excellent heat and drought stress performance",
    "Manage as an early harvest type of product for best product utilization",
    "Caution in field placement where heavy Northern Corn Leaf Blight pressure is present",
    "Has shown response to increasing crop management as it relates to seeding rates, fertility, and fungicide",
    "Use caution when applying pigment inhibitors type herbicides PRE"
  ],
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      "type": "disease ratings",
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          "characteristic": "GRAY LEAF SPOT",
          "value": "5"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT",
          "value": "5"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "GOSS'S WILT",
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        },
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          "characteristic": "NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT - RACE 1",
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          "characteristic": "SEEDLING GROWTH",
          "value": "4"
        },
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          "characteristic": "EMERGENCE",
          "value": "2"
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        {
          "characteristic": "ROOT STRENGTH",
          "value": "3"
        },
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          "characteristic": "STALK STRENGTH",
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        },
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          "characteristic": "DROUGHT TOLERANCE",
          "value": "2"
        },
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          "characteristic": "GREENSNAP TOLERANCE",
          "value": "2"
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        {
          "characteristic": "PLANT HEIGHT",
          "value": "Medium"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "EAR PLACEMENT",
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        }
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      "type": "management",
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          "characteristic": "GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION",
          "value": "1295"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "GDUS TO BLACK LAYER",
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        {
          "characteristic": "VALUE ADDED TRAIT",
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        },
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          "characteristic": "RELATIVE MATURITY",
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        },
        {
          "characteristic": "PLANTING RATE",
          "value": "Med High"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "NEW PRODUCT",
          "value": "NO"
        },
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          "characteristic": "VARIETY",
          "value": "01086081"
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          "characteristic": "STAYGREEN",
          "value": "4"
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        {
          "characteristic": "HARVEST APPEARANCE",
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          "characteristic": "DRYDOWN",
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        {
          "characteristic": "TEST WEIGHT",
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      "label": "HERBICIDE",
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          "characteristic": "GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY",
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          "characteristic": "ISOXAZOLES SENSITIVITY - PREEMERGENCE",
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        {
          "characteristic": "SULFONYLUREAS SENSITIVITY",
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      "label": "PLANT DESCRIPTION",
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        {
          "characteristic": "COB COLOR",
          "value": "Red"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "KERNEL CAP COLOR",
          "value": "Yellow"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "KERNEL ROW",
          "value": "18"
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