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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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# 201-07 BRAND
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- **Vendor:** Bayer
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- **Brand:** Channel
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- **Crop:** Corn
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- **Relative maturity:** 101
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- **Traits:** CONV (Conventional)
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- **Release year:** 2024
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- **Source:** https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/corn/channel/channel-201-07-corn
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- **Rating scale (Bayer):** 1-9 (9 = best)
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## Strengths & management
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- Exciting top end yield potential coupled with good southern movement into 105RM zone
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- Flex ear type has shown to perform well at low to moderate planting densities
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- Very good tolerance to northern corn leaf blight, but fungicide application recommended under heavy gray leaf spot and tar spot pressure
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- Caution when using growth regulator herbicides
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## Maturity
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| Characteristic | Value |
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| GDUS TO BLACK LAYER | 2555 |
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| GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION | 1220 |
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| RELATIVE MATURITY | 101 |
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## Agronomic Characteristics
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| Characteristic | Value |
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| DROUGHT TOLERANCE | 3 |
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| DRYDOWN | 2 |
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| EAR FLEX (GRAIN YIELD PER PLANT) | F |
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| EAR HEIGHT | M |
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| GREENSNAP | 2 |
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| HARVEST APPEARANCE | 3 |
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| PLANT HEIGHT | M |
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| ROOT STRENGTH | 4 |
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| SEEDLING VIGOR | 2 |
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| STALK STRENGTH | 3 |
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| TEST WEIGHT | 4 |
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## Disease
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| Characteristic | Value |
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| ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT | 2 |
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| GOSS'S WILT | 4 |
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| GRAY LEAF SPOT | 6 |
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| NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT R1 | 3 |
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| SOUTHERN RUST | 5 |
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## Adaptation
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| Characteristic | Value |
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| FOCUS AREA | C,E |
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## Herbicides
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| Characteristic | Value |
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| GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY | C |
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| PIGMENT INHIBITORS SENSITIVITY | A |
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| SULFONYLUREAS SENSITIVITY | A |
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## Other
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| Characteristic | Value |
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| GIBBERELLA EAR ROT | Below Average |
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| KERNEL ROW | 18 |
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| EMERGENCE | 3 |
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| TRAIT | CONV |
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| VARIETY | 01095453 |
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## Regional seed-guide listings
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- **2024/2025 Channel NC Iowa - FSRs Epley and Gehrke** — agronomist: Paul Parcher
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- **Lauren Botine's Product List 2025** — agronomist: Lauren Botine
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- **Ohio Corn, Soybeans, and Silage MY25** — agronomist: Mitchell Greve
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- **2024 SC MN** — agronomist: Tony Weis
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