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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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DKS45-60 BRAND
- Vendor: Bayer
- Brand: Dekalb
- Crop: Sorghum
- Release year: 2020
- Source: https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/sorghum/dekalb/dekalb-dks45-60-sorghum
- Rating scale (Bayer): 1-9 (9 = best)
Positioning
DKS45-60 is a Medium maturity product with resistance to Downy Mildew and very good yield potential while maintaining excellent root and stalk strength.
Strengths & management
- Resistant to Downy Mildew pathotype 3 and 6
- Excellent yield potential in a Medium maturity product
- Excellent root and stalk strength
- Very good weatherability and resistance to pre-harvest sprouting & shattering
Maturity
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| MATURITY GROUP | Medium |
Agronomic Characteristics
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| HEAD EXERTION | 2 |
| HEAD TYPE | Semi-Open |
| HEIGHT UNIFORMITY | 2 |
| GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY | 3 |
| DAYS TO FLOWER | 66 |
Management
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| MATURITY GROUP | Medium |
| NEW | No |
| VARIETY CODE | A1092996 |
Plant Description
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| TOTAL PLANT HEIGHT (IN.) | 43-51 |
| APPROX. SEEDS PER POUND (000) | 13-15 |
| GRAIN COLOR | Bronze |
| DAYS TO FLOWER - PLAINS | 67 |
| DAYS TO FLOWER - TX AND SE | 66 |
| DAYS TO HARVEST - PLAINS | 112 |
| DAYS TO HARVEST - TX AND SE | 109 |
Diseases
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| CHARCOAL ROT | 2 |
| DOWNY MILDEW PATHOTYPE 3 & 6 | Resistant |
| HEAD SMUT RESISTANCE | 2 |
| SUGARCANE APHID TOLERANCE | 8 |
| FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT | 5 |
Growth
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| SEEDLING VIGOR | 2 |
| STAYGREEN | 3 |
| ROOT LODGING | 3 |
| PRE-FLOWER STRESS TOLERANCE | 4 |
| POST-FLOWER STRESS TOLERANCE | 2 |
| POST FREEZE STANDABILITY | 3 |
| YIELD POTENTIAL UNDER STRESS | 3 |
Harvest
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| TEST WEIGHT | 1 |
| THRESHABILITY | 1 |
| YIELD POTENTIAL FOR MATURITY | 2 |
| PRE-HARVEST SPROUTING & SHATTERING | 4 |
Regional seed-guide listings
- Texas -- South of I-10 — agronomist: Scott Stanislav
- Mid Atlantic — agronomist: Bryan Dillehay
- 2025 Seed Guide — agronomist: Greg Ferguson
- 2026 Seed Guide — agronomist: Greg Ferguson
- MidAtlantic — agronomist: Bryan Dillehay
- Duplicate 2023 Northeast Seed Resource G — agronomist: Shaun Heinbaugh
- Eastern Missouri 2026 — agronomist: Joe Harris