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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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# DKC48-56RIB BRAND BLEND
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- **Vendor:** Bayer
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- **Brand:** Dekalb
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- **Crop:** Silage
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- **Traits:** SSRIB (SmartStax® RIB Complete® corn blend)
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- **Release year:** 2015
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- **Source:** https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/silage/dekalb/dekalb-dkc48-56rib-silage
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- **Rating scale (Bayer):** 1-9 (9 = best)
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## Positioning
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DKC48-56RIB Brand Blend is a 98 RM product that is widely adaptable except in areas with high levels of historic Goss's Wilt pressure. It can bring top-end yield potential to our lineup as well as nice overall field appearance.
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## Strengths & management
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- Very good top-end yield potential
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- Good drought stress tolerance
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- Very nice late season appearance and standability
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- Very good test weight and grain quality
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- Plant with confidence from east to west in the 95 to 100 RM zones
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- Taller plant type helps provide dual purpose potential
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- Product shows decent ear flex but can take high populations on more productive soils
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- Some greensnap risk exists so position carefully in areas of historic high risk
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## Management
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| Characteristic | Value |
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| VALUE ADDED TRAIT | SSRIB |
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| RELATIVE MATURITY | 98 |
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| GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION | 1200 |
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| GDUS TO BLACK LAYER | 2450 |
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| PLANTING RATE | Med High |
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| SILAGE PROVEN | Yes |
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| NEW PRODUCT | NO |
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| VARIETY | 01056787 |
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## Plant Description
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| Characteristic | Value |
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| COB COLOR | Red |
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| KERNEL CAP COLOR | Yellow |
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| KERNEL ROW | 16 |
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## Growth
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| Characteristic | Value |
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| EMERGENCE | 2 |
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| SEEDLING GROWTH | 3 |
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| ROOT STRENGTH | 3 |
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| STALK STRENGTH | 2 |
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| DROUGHT TOLERANCE | 4 |
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| GREENSNAP | 4 |
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| PLANT HEIGHT | Med Tall |
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| EAR PLACEMENT | Medium |
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## Harvest
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| Characteristic | Value |
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| STAYGREEN | 2 |
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| HARVEST APPEARANCE | 2 |
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| DRYDOWN | 3 |
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| TEST WEIGHT | 2 |
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## Diseases
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| Characteristic | Value |
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| NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT | 4 |
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| SOUTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT | - |
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| GRAY LEAF SPOT | 5 |
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| COMMON RUST | 3 |
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| SOUTHERN RUST | - |
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| EYE SPOT | 3 |
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| ANTHRACNOSE LEAF BLIGHT | 3 |
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| STEWART'S LEAF BLIGHT | 3 |
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| ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT | 5 |
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| GOSS'S WILT | 5 |
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## Herbicide
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| Characteristic | Value |
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| GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY | C |
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| SULFONYLUREAS SENSITIVITY | A |
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| ISOXAZOLES SENSITIVITY - PRE-EMERGENCE | A |
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## Silage Characteristics
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| Characteristic | Value |
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| NDFD 24 HR | 3 |
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| NDFD 30 HR | 2 |
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| % OF STARCH | 3 |
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| IVSD7HR | 3 |
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| SILAGE YIELD | 2 |
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| MILK PER TON | 2 |
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| MILK PER ACRE | 2 |
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## Other
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| Characteristic | Value |
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| CORN LETHAL NECROSIS | - |
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## Regional seed-guide listings
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- **2026 Central & Western ND, MT/WY** — agronomist: Cody Oswald
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- **2026 Northern North Dakota Seedguide** — agronomist: Courtney Meduna
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- **Duplicate 2023 Northeast Seed Resource G** — agronomist: Shaun Heinbaugh
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- **2025 IDAHO, UTAH SEED GUIDE** — agronomist: Dave Heimkes
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- **2026 IDAHO, UTAH SEED GUIDE** — agronomist: Dave Heimkes
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- **2025 Washington, Oregon, SEED GUIDE** — agronomist: Dave Heimkes
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