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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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DKC115-81 BRAND

Vendor: Bayer
Brand: Dekalb
Crop: Silage
Traits: SSP (SmartStax® PRO with RNAi Technology)
Release year: 2024
Source: https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/silage/dekalb/dekalb-dkc115-81-silage
Rating scale (Bayer): 1-9 (9 = best)

Positioning

DKC115-81 Brand is a broadly adapted silage product that has demonstrated excellent silage tonnage and quality potential. This 115 RM product is a medium tall robust plant type with a solid agronomic and disease tolerance package.

Strengths & management

Very strong silage yield, milk per ton, and milk per acre potential
Has shown very strong starch levels and NDFd 30 hr scores for silage quality
Medium tall plant height with very good staygreen that may extend the silage chopping window
Solid root and stalk strength
Strong greensnap tolerance and disease tolerance package for broad placement
Excellent emergence and seedling vigor enabling wide planting window
SmartStax® PRO with RNAi Technology provides protection against corn rootworm with 3 modes of action

Management

Characteristic	Value
VALUE ADDED TRAIT	SSP
RELATIVE MATURITY	115
GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION	1350
GDUS TO BLACK LAYER	2800
PLANTING RATE	Medium
SILAGE PROVEN	Yes
NEW PRODUCT	NO
VARIETY	01096505

Plant Description

Characteristic	Value
COB COLOR	Red
KERNEL CAP COLOR	Yellow
KERNEL ROW	16

Growth

Characteristic	Value
EMERGENCE	2
SEEDLING GROWTH	2
ROOT STRENGTH	3
STALK STRENGTH	3
DROUGHT TOLERANCE	3
GREENSNAP	2
PLANT HEIGHT	Med Tall
EAR PLACEMENT	Med High

Harvest

Characteristic	Value
STAYGREEN	2
HARVEST APPEARANCE	2
DRYDOWN	3
TEST WEIGHT	4

Diseases

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

Herbicide

Characteristic	Value
GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY	A
SULFONYLUREAS SENSITIVITY	A
ISOXAZOLES SENSITIVITY - PRE-EMERGENCE	A

Silage Characteristics

Characteristic	Value
NDFD 24 HR	2
NDFD 30 HR	2
% OF STARCH	2
IVSD7HR	2
SILAGE YIELD	2
MILK PER TON	2
MILK PER ACRE	2

Regional seed-guide listings

Southeast (AL/FL/GA) 2026#2 — agronomist: Vint Hicks
Southeast (AL/FL/GA) 2026 — agronomist: Eddie Beasley

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