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User flagged that Channel is expanding into their area — re-walked the cropscience.bayer.us sitemap and found 8 additional brand×crop paths beyond the original DEKALB/Asgrow/WestBred triple. Patches the scraper to walk all of them; total Bayer varieties roughly doubles from 475 to 931 and the corpus picks up first-ever coverage in sorghum (36), cotton (30), canola (6), and silage as a distinct crop (was conflated with corn before). Net new varieties: 456 Channel corn=181 soy=67 silage=54 sorghum=18 (320) DEKALB silage=82 sorghum=18 canola=6 (106) Deltapine cotton=30 (30) scrape/sources/bayer_seeds.py - Replace `BRANDS` (brand → 1 path) and `CROP_SUFFIX` (brand → 1 suffix) with a flatter `BRAND_PATHS` list of (brand, url_path, crop, is_primary_for_brand) entries. Channel and DEKALB are now multi-crop brands; the same scraper walks every brand×crop pair. - source_key derivation: for a brand's PRIMARY crop, strip the trailing `-<crop>` suffix (matches the existing deployed source keys for DEKALB corn / Asgrow soy / WestBred wheat). For SECONDARY crops, KEEP the suffix so DEKALB-the-same-SKU sold as both grain corn and silage gets two distinct source_keys (collision-safe and unambiguous for `lookup_variety`). - New `--crop` CLI filter for incremental backfills. - Log line shows brand + crop alongside source_key for visibility. rag/chunk.py - Channel + Deltapine pages use slightly different characteristics group labels (DISEASE not DISEASE RATINGS, AGRONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS not GROWTH/HARVEST, plus MATURITY / ADAPTATION / HERBICIDES / OTHER). Fold them into the DISEASE / AGRONOMIC / MANAGEMENT label sets so the chunker buckets them correctly into the standard sections. Smoke-tested cross-brand × cross-crop queries against the rebuilt index (5,529 chunks total) — all 6 sample queries surface the right brand+crop at top-3: Channel corn 110 RM → 210-25TRE BRAND Channel soy 2.5 MG IA → 2622RXF BRAND Deltapine cotton XF → DP 1820 B3XF BRAND Sorghum dryland Kansas → 6B95 BRAND (Channel) Silage corn WI dairy → DKC64-44RIB BRAND BLEND (silage variant) Canola Northern Plains → DK401TL BRAND Watchtower will pull the new image on the next push; deploy is unchanged otherwise. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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K40VGX5 BRAND
- Vendor: Bayer
- Brand: Channel
- Crop: Soybeans
- Maturity group: 4
- Traits: VGX
- Release year: 2025
- Source: https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/soybeans/channel/channel-k40vgx5-soybeans
- Rating scale (Bayer): 1-9 (9 = best)
Strengths & management
- Great standability with medium plant height
- Soybean Cyst Nematode resistance and Rps1c/3a stack for Phytophthora Root Rot resistance
Agronomic Characteristics
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| EMERGENCE | 3 |
| FLOWER COLOR | W |
| GROWTH HABIT | Indeterminate |
| HILUM COLOR | BL |
| PLANT HEIGHT | M |
| POD COLOR | Br |
| PUBESCENCE COLOR | Tw |
| PLANT TYPE | Medium |
| RELATIVE MATURITY | 4.0 |
| STANDABILITY | 2 |
Disease Tolerance
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| FROGEYE LEAF SPOT | 6 |
| IRON DEFICIENCY CHLOROSIS | 4 |
| PRR GENE | Rps1c/3a |
| PRR FIELD TOLERANCE | 5 |
| SOUTHERN ROOT KNOT:M. INCOGNITA | S |
| SOUTHERN STEM CANKER | 2 |
| SOYBEAN CYST NEMATODE | R3 |
| SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME | 4 |
Sensitivity
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| CHLORIDE SENSITIVITY | Inc |
Other
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| HERBICIDE TOLERANT TRAIT | RR2X |
| MATURITY GROUP | 4 |
| TRAIT | VGX |