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justin eaa7e0789b bayer_seeds: add Channel + DEKALB silage/sorghum/canola + Deltapine cotton
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>
2026-05-26 11:54:30 -04:00

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{
"source": "bayer_seeds",
"source_key": "channel-197-37vt2prib",
"vendor": "Bayer",
"brand": "CHANNEL",
"product_name": "197-37VT2PRIB BRAND BLEND",
"product_id": "CORN_197-37VT2PRIB BRAND BLEND_CHANNEL_US",
"hybrid_prefix": "197-37VT2PRIB",
"hybrid_suffix": "BRAND BLEND",
"crop": "corn",
"release_year": 2018,
"relative_maturity": "97",
"maturity_group": null,
"wheat_class": null,
"trait_stack": [
"VT2PRIB"
],
"trait_descriptions": [
"VT Double PRO® RIB Complete® corn blend"
],
"positioning_statement": null,
"strengths": [
"Very high yield potential with very good test weight and excellent drydown",
"Potential for strong flex, low Greensnap risk level and very good seedling vigor",
"Has shown wide adaptation to East, Central and Western environments",
"Position in both rotated and corn on corn acres with medium to high population in many different soil types and yield productivity levels.",
"Has shown to be a tall robust plant type with good ear placement and dual purpose potential",
"Can root lodge and Greensnap under extreme conditions"
],
"characteristics_groups": [
{
"label": "MATURITY",
"type": "maturity",
"items": [
{
"characteristic": "GDUS TO BLACK LAYER",
"value": "2425"
},
{
"characteristic": "GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION",
"value": "1262"
},
{
"characteristic": "RELATIVE MATURITY",
"value": "97"
}
]
},
{
"label": "AGRONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS",
"type": "agronomic characteristics",
"items": [
{
"characteristic": "DROUGHT TOLERANCE",
"value": "3"
},
{
"characteristic": "DRYDOWN",
"value": "2"
},
{
"characteristic": "EAR FLEX (GRAIN YIELD PER PLANT)",
"value": "SF"
},
{
"characteristic": "EAR HEIGHT",
"value": "M"
},
{
"characteristic": "GREENSNAP",
"value": "4"
},
{
"characteristic": "HARVEST APPEARANCE",
"value": "4"
},
{
"characteristic": "PLANT HEIGHT",
"value": "T"
},
{
"characteristic": "ROOT STRENGTH",
"value": "4"
},
{
"characteristic": "SEEDLING VIGOR",
"value": "3"
},
{
"characteristic": "STALK STRENGTH",
"value": "3"
},
{
"characteristic": "TEST WEIGHT",
"value": "3"
}
]
},
{
"label": "DISEASE",
"type": "disease",
"items": [
{
"characteristic": "ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT",
"value": "4"
},
{
"characteristic": "GOSS'S WILT",
"value": "4"
},
{
"characteristic": "GRAY LEAF SPOT",
"value": "5"
},
{
"characteristic": "NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT R1",
"value": "3"
},
{
"characteristic": "SOUTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT",
"value": "4"
},
{
"characteristic": "SOUTHERN RUST",
"value": "4"
}
]
},
{
"label": "ADAPTATION",
"type": "adaptation",
"items": [
{
"characteristic": "FOCUS AREA",
"value": "W,C,E"
}
]
},
{
"label": "HERBICIDES",
"type": "herbicides",
"items": [
{
"characteristic": "GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY",
"value": "A"
},
{
"characteristic": "PIGMENT INHIBITORS SENSITIVITY",
"value": "A"
},
{
"characteristic": "SULFONYLUREAS SENSITIVITY",
"value": "A"
}
]
},
{
"label": "OTHER",
"type": "other",
"items": [
{
"characteristic": "GIBBERELLA EAR ROT",
"value": "6"
},
{
"characteristic": "KERNEL ROW",
"value": "18-20"
},
{
"characteristic": "EMERGENCE",
"value": "2"
},
{
"characteristic": "TRAIT",
"value": "VT2PRIB"
},
{
"characteristic": "VARIETY",
"value": "undefined"
}
]
}
],
"_scale_direction": "1-9 (9 = best)",
"regional_recommendations": [
{
"product_list_name": "2025 Channel Products for South Dakota",
"agronomist": "John Goeden",
"agronomist_email": "john.goeden@bayer.com",
"variant_id": "CORN_197-37VT2PRIB BRAND BLEND_CHANNEL_US_2025_LWU_1"
},
{
"product_list_name": "Central South Dakota",
"agronomist": "Jeremy Johnson",
"agronomist_email": "jeremy.johnson@bayer.com",
"variant_id": "CORN_197-37VT2PRIB BRAND BLEND_CHANNEL_US_2025_L7J_1"
},
{
"product_list_name": "Central South Dakota",
"agronomist": "Jeremy Johnson",
"agronomist_email": "jeremy.johnson@bayer.com",
"variant_id": "CORN_197-37VT2PRIB BRAND BLEND_CHANNEL_US_2025_N1V_1"
},
{
"product_list_name": "2025 Channel Products for South Dakota",
"agronomist": "John Goeden",
"agronomist_email": "john.goeden@bayer.com",
"variant_id": "CORN_197-37VT2PRIB BRAND BLEND_CHANNEL_US_2025_N9D_1"
},
{
"product_list_name": "Central South Dakota",
"agronomist": "Jeremy Johnson",
"agronomist_email": "jeremy.johnson@bayer.com",
"variant_id": "CORN_197-37VT2PRIB BRAND BLEND_CHANNEL_US_2025_N9L_1"
},
{
"product_list_name": "2025 Channel Products for South Dakota",
"agronomist": "John Goeden",
"agronomist_email": "john.goeden@bayer.com",
"variant_id": "CORN_197-37VT2PRIB BRAND BLEND_CHANNEL_US_2025_N9B_1"
}
],
"image_url": "https://cs-assets.bayer.com/is/image/bayer/channel-seed-bag-field-corn-rib-complete",
"source_urls": [
"https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/corn/channel/channel-197-37vt2prib-corn"
],
"sitemap_last_modified": "2026-05-12T14:41:26.653Z",
"fetched_at": "2026-05-26T15:41:14.573419+00:00",
"scraper_version": "0.1.0"
}