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  "source_key": "dekalb-dkc56-15rib",
  "vendor": "Bayer",
  "brand": "DEKALB",
  "product_name": "DKC56-15RIB BRAND BLEND",
  "product_id": "CORN_DKC56-15RIB BRAND BLEND_DEKALB_US",
  "hybrid_prefix": "DKC56-15RIB",
  "hybrid_suffix": "BRAND BLEND",
  "crop": "corn",
  "release_year": 2021,
  "relative_maturity": "106",
  "maturity_group": null,
  "wheat_class": null,
  "trait_stack": [
    "TRERIB"
  ],
  "trait_descriptions": [
    "Trecepta™ RIB Complete® corn blend"
  ],
  "positioning_statement": "DKC56-15RIB Brand Blend is a product that combines an excellent disease package with solid agronomics and a very good late season appearance.  It can provide broad adaptability from West to East with increasing performance potential as it moves East.",
  "strengths": [
    "Excellent foliar disease package plus good physoderma tolerance has been displayed by this product",
    "Has shown most compelling yield performance centered on 105 RM zone",
    "Hybrid can exhibit very good stalk strength",
    "Has shown good test weight and grain quality, food grade potential",
    "Can provide above average drought tolerance",
    "Girthy ear type that has shown to maximize yield potential at medium to higher plant populations",
    "Has shown good tolerance to Tar Spot"
  ],
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      "label": "DISEASE RATINGS",
      "type": "disease ratings",
      "items": [
        {
          "characteristic": "GRAY LEAF SPOT",
          "value": "4"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "SOUTHERN RUST",
          "value": "4"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT",
          "value": "3"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "GOSS'S WILT",
          "value": "3"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT - RACE 1",
          "value": "3"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "GROWTH",
      "type": "growth",
      "items": [
        {
          "characteristic": "SEEDLING GROWTH",
          "value": "2"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "EMERGENCE",
          "value": "2"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "ROOT STRENGTH",
          "value": "4"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "STALK STRENGTH",
          "value": "3"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "DROUGHT TOLERANCE",
          "value": "4"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "GREENSNAP TOLERANCE",
          "value": "3"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "PLANT HEIGHT",
          "value": "Med Tall"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "EAR PLACEMENT",
          "value": "Medium"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "MANAGEMENT",
      "type": "management",
      "items": [
        {
          "characteristic": "GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION",
          "value": "1300"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "GDUS TO BLACK LAYER",
          "value": "2650"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "VALUE ADDED TRAIT",
          "value": "TRERIB"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "RELATIVE MATURITY",
          "value": "106"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "PLANTING RATE",
          "value": "Medium"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "NEW PRODUCT",
          "value": "NO"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "DEKALB® DISEASE SHIELD®",
          "value": "YES"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "VARIETY",
          "value": "01082044"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "HARVEST",
      "type": "harvest",
      "items": [
        {
          "characteristic": "STAYGREEN",
          "value": "3"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "HARVEST APPEARANCE",
          "value": "3"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "DRYDOWN",
          "value": "3"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "TEST WEIGHT",
          "value": "4"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "HERBICIDE",
      "type": "herbicide",
      "items": [
        {
          "characteristic": "GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY",
          "value": "A"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "ISOXAZOLES SENSITIVITY - PREEMERGENCE",
          "value": "A"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "SULFONYLUREAS SENSITIVITY",
          "value": "A"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "label": "PLANT DESCRIPTION",
      "type": "plant description",
      "items": [
        {
          "characteristic": "COB COLOR",
          "value": "Red"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "KERNEL CAP COLOR",
          "value": "Yellow"
        },
        {
          "characteristic": "KERNEL ROW",
          "value": "20"
        }
      ]
    }
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