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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

1.8 KiB

211-11VT2P BRAND


Strengths & management

  • Position in moderate to high yield environments with good fertility
  • Semi-determinant ear style showcases very good grain quality
  • Medium tall plant type with moderately high ear placement has shown very good stalk and root strength
  • Outstanding disease tolerance package includes excellent gray leaf spot, northern corn leaf blight, southern rust, and anthracnose stalk rot tolerance

Maturity

Characteristic Value
GDUS TO BLACK LAYER 2780
GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION 1385
RELATIVE MATURITY 111

Agronomic Characteristics

Characteristic Value
DROUGHT TOLERANCE 3
DRYDOWN 2
EAR FLEX (GRAIN YIELD PER PLANT) SD
EAR HEIGHT MH
GREENSNAP 3
HARVEST APPEARANCE 2
PLANT HEIGHT MT
ROOT STRENGTH 3
SEEDLING VIGOR 3
STALK STRENGTH 3
TEST WEIGHT 2

Disease

Characteristic Value
ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT 2
GOSS'S WILT 4
GRAY LEAF SPOT 5
NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT R1 4
SOUTHERN RUST 3

Adaptation

Characteristic Value
FOCUS AREA W,C,E

Herbicides

Characteristic Value
GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY A
PIGMENT INHIBITORS SENSITIVITY A
SULFONYLUREAS SENSITIVITY A

Other

Characteristic Value
DIPLODIA EAR ROT Above Average
KERNEL ROW 14-16
EMERGENCE 2
TRAIT VT2P
VARIETY 01091398

Regional seed-guide listings

  • Central Illinois — agronomist: Corey Sokol