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claude 89eea0f2b4 Add ProHarvest Seeds: 119 varieties + 161 cross-vendor plot reports
ProHarvest Seeds (independent Corn Belt brand, proharvestseeds.com) exposes
a public, no-auth WordPress REST API — cleaner ingestion than the HTML-only
independents. Two new sources:

- `proharvest` (variety identity, 119 row-crop varieties: 70 corn / 47 soy /
  2 wheat). Enumerated via /wp/v2/seed (seed-type taxonomy), agronomics
  parsed from each /seed/<slug>/ detail page into structured
  characteristics_groups so the ratings actually embed. Mixed scale: disease
  1-9 numeric (9=best, no flip), agronomic/general qualitative, soil HR/R.

- `proharvest_plots` (trials, data_type=trial, 161 plots, 2024+2025). Per-
  cooperator harvest reports via the custom /wp-json/proharvest/v1/plots?y=
  endpoint + PDF table extraction. Many are cross-vendor head-to-head
  (ProHarvest/Apex vs Pioneer/DEKALB/Becks/Channel/Wyffels). Handles ruled
  tables, unruled tables (text fallback; soy drops the Test-Wt column → 4 vs
  5 numerics), and off-template third-party reports (sanity-gated to verbatim
  so junk rows never ship). Image-only PDFs skipped + counted.

- rag/chunk.py: route proharvest_plots through the shared cross-vendor plot
  renderer (structured) / verbatim body (raw_text fallback).
- sources.json + lessons.md (rating-scales, trial-data).
- README/CLAUDE.md corpus inventory brought current (it had drifted: bayer
  931 not 475; ebberts/lg/agrigold were unlisted). New totals: 1,645 variety
  + 6,787 trial records.

robots.txt permissive (only search + /dealer-* disallowed); no ToS
automation clause. CI rebuilds the index from the committed corpus.
2026-06-04 21:04:33 -04:00

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Corn yield trial — Terry Ferguson (Clinton, IL, 2025)

  • Publisher: ProHarvest Seeds (cross-vendor plot report)
  • Crop: Corn
  • Year: 2025
  • Location: Clinton, IL · Dewitt County
  • Cooperator: Terry Ferguson
  • Company rep: Tom Forrest
  • Planted: 5/15/2025
  • Harvested: 10/21/2025
  • Previous crop: Soybeans
  • Row width: 30
  • Population: 34,500 seeds/acre
  • Tillage: No-Till
  • Irrigation: Non-Irrigated
  • Fungicide: Yes
  • Source PDF: https://proharvestseeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Corn-Ferguson-Clinton-IL.pdf

Results (head-to-head)

Rank Brand Hybrid/Variety Trait Yield/Ac % H2O Test Wt +/- Ave
1 DEKALB DKC112-12RIB - 286.63 16.6 None 62
2 ProHarvest 82P96 PCE 260.12 16.4 None 35.5
3 ProHarvest 82P96 PCE 256.25 17.1 None 31.6
4 ProHarvest 84P78 TRERIB 254.71 17.6 None 30.1
5 Pioneer P1483 Q 241.95 16.8 None 17.3
6 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 237.44 16.6 None 12.8
7 ProHarvest 84P41 PCE 236.02 17.1 None 11.4
8 ProHarvest 86P55 TRERIB 235.45 17.3 None 10.8
9 DEKALB DKC114-99RIB - 234.6 17.6 None 10
9 ProHarvest 85P58 VT2PRIB 234.6 17.6 None 10
10 DEKALB DKC112-35RIB - 234.05 17.2 None 9.4
11 DEKALB DKC68-35RIB - 233.2 17.5 None 8.6
12 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 229 17.2 None 4.4
13 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 228.69 16.7 None 4
14 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 227.32 17.2 None 2.7
15 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 226.49 17.5 None 1.8
16 DEKALB DKC117-89RIB - 224.57 18.2 None -0.1
17 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 224.19 16.8 None -0.5
18 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 223.14 17.5 None -1.5
19 DEKALB DKC115-55RIB - 221.79 18 None -2.9
20 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 221.67 15.5 None -3
21 ProHarvest 81P45 TRERIB 220.75 16.5 None -3.9
22 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 220.58 17.2 None -4.1
23 Pioneer P13050 AM 219.05 16.5 None -5.6
24 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 218.37 17.4 None -6.3
24 DEKALB DKC66-06RIB - 218.37 17.4 None -6.3
25 DEKALB DKC113-03RIB - 217.48 17.1 None -7.2
26 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 217.21 17.2 None -7.4
27 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 216.57 16.8 None -8.1
28 DEKALB DKC114-43RIB - 210.99 17 None -13.7
29 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 210.48 17.2 None -14.2
30 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 203.99 17.1 None -20.7
31 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 202.06 17.2 None -22.6
32 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 201.1 16.9 None -23.5
33 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 197.01 17.2 None -27.6
34 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 192.19 17.1 None -32.5
35 ProHarvest 83P33 DGVT2PRIB 173.85 17 None -50.8