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justin 75f714b454 Phase 4-5: deployable container + corpus snapshot + CI fixes
deploy/docker-compose.yml — replace <product>/<registry> placeholders
with concrete values for Drawbar's stack:
- image: git.jpaul.io/justin/seed-mcp:latest (CF tunnel for pulls; CI
  pushes via LAN 192.168.0.2:1234 to avoid 100 MB body cap)
- container_name: seed-mcp
- port 8001:8000 (8001 host-side to not collide with crop-chem-docs
  on 8000)
- PRODUCT_NAME=crop_seed, hybrid search enabled, stateless HTTP
- llama-rerank shared with crop-chem-docs (NOT redefined here —
  expected to already be in Drawbar's parent compose network)
- networks.drawbar-mcp external: true so seed-mcp joins the existing
  cross-MCP shared network

.gitignore — corpus/ is now COMMITTED, not ignored. The monthly
refresh workflow scrapes and commits corpus changes; the image-only
workflow rebuilds indexes from the committed corpus. Allowing the
corpus to flow through git means the :corpus-YYYY.MM.DD image tag
pins to a specific seed-catalog snapshot. chroma/ and bm25/ remain
ignored — those are deterministically derived from corpus.

Initial committed snapshot: 614 varieties.
- bayer_seeds: 475 (DEKALB 288 + Asgrow 102 + WestBred 85)
- golden_harvest: 139 (Syngenta corn + soy; 36 sitemap URLs
  302-redirected = discontinued)

rag/chunk.py — normalize brand and crop to uppercase/lowercase in
Chroma metadata so cross-vendor brand-filter lookups don't break on
casing inconsistency (Bayer stores "DEKALB", Golden Harvest stores
"Golden Harvest"; _build_where uppercases user-supplied brand which
matched the former but not the latter pre-fix). Sidecar JSON keeps
original casing for display.

Stub scrapers (nk, agripro, becks_pfr, becks_products) — change
return code from 2 to 0 so the monthly-refresh CI workflow doesn't
fail on deferred sources. Real implementations will return 0 on
success / 1 on failure when they ship.

Smoke-tested cross-vendor retrieval against the 614-chunk index:
- list_versions shows both vendors with correct facet counts
- broad "corn hybrid 100 RM" query returns both DEKALB and Golden
  Harvest hits in top 5
- brand='Golden Harvest' filter returns 3 GH-only varieties
- variety-code prefilter still works (E085Z5 → top hit on GH)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-25 13:40:05 -04:00

3.0 KiB

DKC52-99RIB BRAND BLEND


Positioning

DKC52-99RIB Brand Blend is a 102 RM hybrid that can provide outstanding performance potential broadly East to West in the 100RM zone. South of zone utilization has also shown to be favorable with good heat and drought stress tolerance.

Strengths & management

  • Good stalk and root strength has been shown with this product
  • Has shown very good performance stability; ear consistency and very good kernel depth
  • Very good greensnap tolerance and good Goss's Wilt tolerance for Western movement
  • Can provide excellent heat and drought stress performance
  • Manage as an early harvest type of product for best product utilization
  • Caution in field placement where heavy Northern Corn Leaf Blight pressure is present
  • Has shown response to increasing crop management as it relates to seeding rates, fertility, and fungicide
  • Use caution when applying pigment inhibitors type herbicides PRE

Disease Ratings

Characteristic Value
GRAY LEAF SPOT 5
ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT 5
GOSS'S WILT 4
NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT - RACE 1 5

Growth

Characteristic Value
SEEDLING GROWTH 4
EMERGENCE 2
ROOT STRENGTH 3
STALK STRENGTH 3
DROUGHT TOLERANCE 2
GREENSNAP TOLERANCE 2
PLANT HEIGHT Medium
EAR PLACEMENT Medium

Management

Characteristic Value
GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION 1295
GDUS TO BLACK LAYER 2575
VALUE ADDED TRAIT TRERIB
RELATIVE MATURITY 102
PLANTING RATE Med High
NEW PRODUCT NO
VARIETY 01086081

Harvest

Characteristic Value
STAYGREEN 4
HARVEST APPEARANCE 5
DRYDOWN 2
TEST WEIGHT 5

Herbicide

Characteristic Value
GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY A
ISOXAZOLES SENSITIVITY - PREEMERGENCE C
SULFONYLUREAS SENSITIVITY A

Plant Description

Characteristic Value
COB COLOR Red
KERNEL CAP COLOR Yellow
KERNEL ROW 18

Regional seed-guide listings

  • 2024 South Dakota Product Guide — agronomist: Gary Hegg
  • 2025 Northwest Iowa Seed Guide — agronomist: Paige Thomsen
  • 2024 South Dakota Product Guide — agronomist: Jeff Spieler
  • Southwest Iowa 24 — agronomist: Andrew Penney
  • 2025 E Central, Central & Northern NE — agronomist: Josh Erwin
  • 2023 Northwest Iowa Seed Guide — agronomist: Jim McDermott
  • 2025 South Dakota Product Guide — agronomist: Jeff Spieler
  • 2025 Northwest Iowa Seed Guide — agronomist: Jim McDermott
  • 2025 E Central, Central & Northern NE — agronomist: Jason Skalsky
  • 2025 South Dakota Product Guide — agronomist: Jeff Fuls
  • 2024-2025 Dekalb Seed Guide — agronomist: Andrew Penney