Independent regional brand (Elkhorn, NE; rolled up Federal Hybrids / Big Cob /
Kiser / Rupp's grain-forage). No structured web catalog — the lineup lives in
the 2026 Seed Guide PDF — so this is a PDF-extraction identity source.
- robseeco (130: 87 corn + 43 soy; Rob-See-Co 105 + Innotech 25). Downloads the
guide (cached under var/, gitignored), dedups the duplicated pages, parses the
corn (p5-8) + soy (p19-26) ratings tables. Rotated/vertical column headers
reconstructed by clustering rotated words; cells mapped by x-center alignment;
descriptive 2-col cards joined by code for trait_stack + strengths. Masters
Choice silage + sorghum scoped out (row-crop core only).
- SCALE 1-9, 9=Best (higher=better, like Bayer/Stine-corn); column map verified
against the card bullets (e.g. RC2500 "rapid drydown"->Drydown 8, "short
plant"->Plant Height 5; RC4779 "industry-leading tar spot"->Tar Spot 7).
Validation: all 130 chunk via rag.chunk.chunks_from_variety (0 errors), 0
duplicate keys, 0 out-of-range ratings (misalignment check), RM/MG all sane.
robseeco.com robots permissive (Squarespace AI-block toggle off; no ToS scrape
clause; PDF on a public CDN). docs: sources.json + README/CLAUDE inventory
(2,398 variety records) + rating-scales lesson (added RobSeeCo to the
higher=better group + the cross-vendor direction warning).
Adds the **first non-Syngenta trial coverage** to the corpus:
| Source | Docs | Publisher | URL pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| lg_plot_reports | 1,304 | LG Seeds (AgReliant) | lgseeds.com/performance/{crop} JSON XHR |
| agrigold_plot_reports | 1,003 | AgriGold (AgReliant) | agrigold.com/{crop}/performance/{crop}-yield-results |
Total trial coverage now: gh_plot_reports (4,299) + agripro_trials (14) +
lg_plot_reports (1,304) + agrigold_plot_reports (1,003) = 6,620 trial docs.
**Both scrapers follow the gh_plot_reports template** — same RateLimitedSession
primitive, same TrialResult/PlotReport dataclass shape, same data_type="trial"
sidecar convention. The trial chunker (`rag/chunk.py:_render_trial_chunk`) is
extended to recognize both new sources; they share `_render_gh_plot_chunk`
since their sidecars are structurally identical (just different brand label).
**LG specifics:**
- POST `/performance/{crop}/GetPlots/` returns sparse listing (id, year, lat/lng)
- GET `/performance/{crop}/GetPlotData/?PlotId=X&IsSilage=Y` returns full detail
with state, cooperator, planting/harvest dates, and **top-5 hybrids** (LG +
competitors). Top-5 is what LG publishes publicly; not the full ranking.
- 4 crops: corn (963), soybeans (287), sorghum (10), silage (50) — first
alfalfa absent because LG doesn't run alfalfa plots; that's variety-only data.
- 301 gotcha: www.lgseeds.com redirects to lgseeds.com which drops POST body,
so the scraper hits the apex host directly.
**AgriGold specifics:**
- Listing: GET `/{crop}/performance/{crop}-yield-results?harvestYear={year}`
(server-rendered HTML, ~1MB; 408 corn plots in 2025 alone)
- Detail: GET `/{crop_url}/performance/{slug}/{plot_id}` returns the **full
ranking** (not just top-5) plus rich plot management metadata: tillage,
previous crop, fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, irrigation, soil type,
row width, population. Most metadata-rich of the three trial sources.
- Soybean URL slug is singular: `/soybeans/performance/soybean-yield-results/`
- Columns: Rank | Brand | Product | Trait | Ck | H20 (moisture) | Test Wt. |
Yield | Adj Yield (check-adjusted)
- 2 crops: corn (849) + soybeans (157)
**Indexer needs no changes** — `rag/index.py` auto-discovers any directory
under corpus/ and routes by data_type. Both new sources flow into the
existing trial collection and surface via `search_trials`.
Years scraped: 2024+2025 (matching gh_plot_reports baseline). 2023 is
available via `--include-2023` on either scraper for future backfill.
This PR introduces TRIAL data — yield-performance results from real
field trials — as a SEPARATE data type alongside variety identity.
The two are complementary:
search_docs → "What's the disease resistance of DKC62-08RIB?"
(variety identity — what it IS)
search_trials → "Which corn hybrid won the IA 2024 trials?"
(performance data — how it PERFORMED)
scrape/sources/gh_plot_reports.py — Golden Harvest plot reports
- 4,618 expected (2024+2025; 2023 deferred to a backfill pass).
- URL: /<crop>/plot-report/<state>/<year>/<plot_id>
- Cross-vendor: each plot lists products from multiple brands
(NK / DEKALB / Golden Harvest / Enogen / Pioneer / Channel) side
by side at one cooperator's field — the kind of independent
comparison data Bayer doesn't publish itself.
- Generic per-column metrics dict (Yield/MST/Test Weight/$/Ac for
corn+soy, Ton/Acre + Milk + Beef columns for silage).
- Politeness: 1 req/sec, retries on 429/5xx, no redirect-follow.
scrape/sources/agripro_trials.py — AgriPro regional trial PDFs
- 14 unique PDFs (38 sitemap links deduped) at /trials-data
- pdfplumber text extraction, region/year detection from filename
- Verbatim PDF text preserved in chunk body so variety + yield
number adjacency drives retrieval (AP Iliad's Aberdeen ID yield
matches a query about "AP Iliad Idaho yield")
rag/chunk.py — chunks_from_trial() dispatching by source
- Plot reports: identity preamble + Top-5 by primary metric + full
ranking table. Metric labels chosen from the data (corn/soy use
"Yield", silage uses "Ton/Acre").
- AgriPro PDFs: identity preamble + verbatim trial body inline so
per-location yields surface for region+variety queries.
- Variety chunks get data_type="variety" metadata; trial chunks get
data_type="trial". Single Chroma collection; the tool router
filters by data_type rather than maintaining two collections.
rag/index.py — dispatch by sidecar's data_type field
rag/bm25.py — new filter columns (data_type, year, state)
docs_mcp/server.py — sixth MCP tool: search_trials(crop?, state?,
year?, product?, k=10)
- Filters trial chunks via where={"data_type": "trial", ...}
- Optional product substring post-filter for "DKC62-08RIB Iowa 2024"
style searches
- search_docs now defaults to data_type="variety" so trial chunks
don't bleed into variety identity queries
- Tool docstring routes the agent: "use lookup_variety to verify
identity details on any trial winner you surface"
NK trial endpoint (/NKSeeds/wsProxy.asmx/GetPlotResult) is documented
as deferred — the ASMX-SOAP shape returned empty XML on initial
probe. Bayer per-variety yield data is not publicly indexed at all
— documented in the trial-scope note (DEKALB/Asgrow trial data flows
through Channel reps, not the web). AgRevival research books exist
as 10 large annual PDFs but are deferred (low ROI per parse).
Initial corpus shipped in this PR: 14 AgriPro trial PDFs. The 4,618
Golden Harvest plot reports are scraping in background and will be
added in a follow-up corpus-snapshot PR (~70 min ETA).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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