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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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DKS54-07 BRAND

Vendor: Bayer
Brand: Dekalb
Crop: Sorghum
Release year: 2019
Source: https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/sorghum/dekalb/dekalb-dks54-07-sorghum
Rating scale (Bayer): 1-9 (9 = best)

Positioning

DKS54-07 is a Medium-Full maturity red grain hybrid with excellent Sugarcane Aphid tolerance. DKS54-07 shows impressive yield potential from South Texas to the Central Plains.

Strengths & management

Excellent Sugarcane Aphid tolerance
Impressive yield potential
Very good grain quality and grain weathering resistance
Very good disease resistance package with resistance to Charcoal rot and Fusarium Head Blight

Maturity

Characteristic	Value
MATURITY GROUP	Medium-Full

Agronomic Characteristics

Characteristic	Value
HEAD EXERTION	4
HEAD TYPE	Semi-Compact
HEIGHT UNIFORMITY	4
GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY	2
DAYS TO FLOWER	72

Management

Characteristic	Value
MATURITY GROUP	Medium-Full
NEW	No
VARIETY CODE	A1076509

Plant Description

Characteristic	Value
TOTAL PLANT HEIGHT (IN.)	45-53
APPROX. SEEDS PER POUND (000)	14-16
GRAIN COLOR	Red
DAYS TO FLOWER - PLAINS	72
DAYS TO FLOWER - TX AND SE	73
DAYS TO HARVEST - PLAINS	118
DAYS TO HARVEST - TX AND SE	116

Diseases

Characteristic	Value
CHARCOAL ROT	2
DOWNY MILDEW PATHOTYPE 3 & 6	Susceptible
HEAD SMUT RESISTANCE	4
SUGARCANE APHID TOLERANCE	1
FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT	1

Growth

Characteristic	Value
SEEDLING VIGOR	2
STAYGREEN	2
ROOT LODGING	3
PRE-FLOWER STRESS TOLERANCE	6
POST-FLOWER STRESS TOLERANCE	2
POST FREEZE STANDABILITY	2
YIELD POTENTIAL UNDER STRESS	6

Harvest

Characteristic	Value
TEST WEIGHT	2
THRESHABILITY	2
YIELD POTENTIAL FOR MATURITY	1
PRE-HARVEST SPROUTING & SHATTERING	4

Regional seed-guide listings

2025 SOUTHEAST & SOUTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA — agronomist: Steven Johnsen
Eastern Missouri 2025 — agronomist: Joe Harris
2024 WTX, OK, and NM SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Kagan Randolph
Southeast (AL/FL/GA) 2025#2 — agronomist: Vint Hicks
2025 Seed Guide — agronomist: Greg Ferguson
2025 Kentucky Seed Guide — agronomist: Todd Ladd
Southern Illinois Seed Guide — agronomist: Josh Tooley
2026 WTX, OK & NM SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Kagan Randolph
North Delta 2026 — agronomist: Josh Rupard
2026 E Central, Central & Northern NE — agronomist: Josh Erwin
2025-26 Central Kansas — agronomist: Jeff Schaef
Southeast (AL/FL/GA) 2025#2 — agronomist: Eddie Beasley
Mid Atlantic — agronomist: Bryan Dillehay
2026 DEKALB/ASGROW SOUTHWEST IN GUIDE — agronomist: Jordan Arndell
2025 DEKALB/ASGROW SOUTHWEST IN GUIDE — agronomist: Jordan Arndell
2025 E Central, Central & Northern NE — agronomist: Jason Skalsky
2026 Seed Guide — agronomist: Greg Ferguson
North and Central TX — agronomist: Steve Carlson
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS VT2P TRAIT FOCUS — agronomist: Josh Tooley
Texas -- South of I-10 — agronomist: Scott Stanislav
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS VT2P TRAIT FOCUS — agronomist: Mackenzie Trader
Chris 2026 handout — agronomist: Steven Johnsen
2024-25 Central Kansas — agronomist: Jeff Schaef
2026 South Central/Southwest KS Guide — agronomist: Holly Thrasher
2026 KS and MO — agronomist: Molly Drimmel
2026 Kentucky Seed Guide — agronomist: Todd Ladd
2025 KS and MO — agronomist: Molly Drimmel
2024 South Central/Southwest Kansas — agronomist: Holly Thrasher
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS SMARTSTAX TRAIT FOCUS — agronomist: Josh Tooley
West Texas Cotton Growing Region — agronomist: Corey Thompson
2025 South Central/Southwest KS Guide — agronomist: Holly Thrasher
Eastern Missouri 2026 — agronomist: Joe Harris
Southeast (AL/FL/GA) 2026 — agronomist: Eddie Beasley
Southeast (AL/FL/GA) 2026#2 — agronomist: Vint Hicks
2025 E Central, Central & Northern NE — agronomist: Josh Erwin
2025 WTX, OK, and NM SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Kagan Randolph
MidAtlantic — agronomist: Bryan Dillehay
West Tennessee — agronomist: Wes Rodgers
handout2026 — agronomist: Steven Johnsen
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS VT2P TRAIT FOCUS — agronomist: Jamie Long

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