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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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DKC39-54RIB BRAND BLEND

Vendor: Bayer
Brand: Dekalb
Crop: Silage
Traits: SSRIB (SmartStax® RIB Complete® corn blend)
Release year: 2022
Source: https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/silage/dekalb/dekalb-dkc39-54rib-silage
Rating scale (Bayer): 1-9 (9 = best)

Positioning

DKC39-54RIB Brand Blend is a broadly adapted medium stature product with excellent stalk strength, a good foliar disease tolerance package and excellent yield potential. It has shown excellent emergence and seedling vigor for early planting.

Strengths & management

Has show very good yield potential across the cornbelt in the 90 RM zone with good north of zone movement
Widely adapted germplasm from East to West
Has shown very good tolerance to Northern Corn Leaf Blight
Product has shown very good Goss's Wilt tolerance for elevated field pressure and corn following corn environments
Potential for very good test weight and grain drydown
Product has shown to perform well in stressed growing conditions
Semi-flex ear type has shown good performance at lower plant populations

Management

Characteristic	Value
VALUE ADDED TRAIT	SSRIB
RELATIVE MATURITY	89
GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION	1200
GDUS TO BLACK LAYER	2225
PLANTING RATE	Medium
SILAGE PROVEN	No
NEW PRODUCT	NO
VARIETY	01081376

Plant Description

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

Growth

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

Harvest

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

Diseases

Characteristic	Value
NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT	3
ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT	3
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	5
NDFD 30 HR	5
% OF STARCH	3
IVSD7HR	2
SILAGE YIELD	3
MILK PER TON	4
MILK PER ACRE	3

Regional seed-guide listings

2025 IDAHO, UTAH SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Dave Heimkes
Wisconsin 2025 — agronomist: Sammie Brantner
2025 Washington, Oregon, SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Dave Heimkes
2026 IDAHO, UTAH SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Dave Heimkes
2026 Eastern ND / Northern MN — agronomist: Grant Mehring
2025 South Dakota Product Guide — agronomist: Gary Hegg
2026 South Dakota Product Guide — agronomist: Jeff Fuls
2026 South Dakota Product Guide — agronomist: Jeff Spieler
2026 MINNESOTA DEKALB-ASGROW SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Abby Ficker
2025 MINNESOTA DEKALB-ASGROW SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Abby Ficker
2026 Northern North Dakota Seedguide — agronomist: Courtney Meduna
Wisconsin Seed Guide — agronomist: Mike Hopke
2026 Central & Western ND, MT/WY — agronomist: Cody Oswald
2026 Washington, Oregon, SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Dave Heimkes
Wisconsin 2025 — agronomist: Reid Gill

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