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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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177-54VT2PRIB BRAND BLEND
- Vendor: Bayer
- Brand: Channel
- Crop: Corn
- Relative maturity: 77
- Traits: VT2PRIB (VT Double PRO® RIB Complete® corn blend)
- Release year: 2022
- Source: https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/corn/channel/channel-177-54vt2prib-corn
- Rating scale (Bayer): 1-9 (9 = best)
Strengths & management
- Very strong yield potential with a fixed ear type that is likely to respond at medium to medium high planting populations
- Very good disease tolerance package including Goss’s Wilt and Northern Leaf Blight
- Stable product that has shown drought tolerance
- Has been shown to lose staygreen but finishes nicely
Maturity
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| GDUS TO BLACK LAYER | 1950 |
| GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION | 1125 |
| RELATIVE MATURITY | 77 |
Agronomic Characteristics
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| DROUGHT TOLERANCE | 3 |
| DRYDOWN | 3 |
| EAR FLEX (GRAIN YIELD PER PLANT) | SD |
| EAR HEIGHT | M |
| GREENSNAP | 3 |
| HARVEST APPEARANCE | 3 |
| PLANT HEIGHT | MT |
| ROOT STRENGTH | 3 |
| SEEDLING VIGOR | 4 |
| STALK STRENGTH | 3 |
| TEST WEIGHT | 4 |
Disease
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT | 3 |
| GOSS'S WILT | 4 |
| GRAY LEAF SPOT | 5 |
| NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT R1 | 3 |
Adaptation
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| FOCUS AREA | W,E |
Herbicides
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY | A |
| PIGMENT INHIBITORS SENSITIVITY | A |
| SULFONYLUREAS SENSITIVITY | A |
Other
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| KERNEL ROW | 14-16 |
| EMERGENCE | 3 |
| TRAIT | VT2PRIB |
| VARIETY | undefined |
Regional seed-guide listings
- 2025 Channel East Central and Western ND — agronomist: Lindsey Novak