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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>
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DKC49-72RIB BRAND BLEND
- Vendor: Bayer
- Brand: Dekalb
- Crop: Silage
- Traits: SSRIB (SmartStax® RIB Complete® corn blend)
- Release year: 2014
- Source: https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/silage/dekalb/dekalb-dkc49-72rib-silage
- Rating scale (Bayer): 1-9 (9 = best)
Positioning
DKC49-72RIB Brand Blend is a 99 RM product that will get a quick start out of the ground and stand well late into the harvest season. It is an ideal choice for continuous corn due to its solid agronomic and disease package.
Strengths & management
- Nice defense with competitive top-end yield potential
- Has shown consistent performance across yield environments
- Has shown very good stalks and roots
- Very good emergence and seedling vigor
- Nice stature for the Western Corn Belt
- Plant across any acre but yield potential can be best in higher yield environments
- Drought stress tolerance has shown to be average
- Plant at higher populations to get best performance
- Avoid areas with a history of high Goss's Wilt pressure
- Plant in cold soils with confidence and leave in the field until last
Management
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| VALUE ADDED TRAIT | SSRIB |
| RELATIVE MATURITY | 99 |
| GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION | 1266 |
| GDUS TO BLACK LAYER | 2475 |
| PLANTING RATE | Med High |
| SILAGE PROVEN | No |
| NEW PRODUCT | NO |
| VARIETY | 01052411 |
Plant Description
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| COB COLOR | Red |
| KERNEL CAP COLOR | Yellow |
| KERNEL ROW | 16 |
Growth
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| EMERGENCE | 1 |
| SEEDLING GROWTH | 1 |
| ROOT STRENGTH | 1 |
| STALK STRENGTH | 3 |
| DROUGHT TOLERANCE | 3 |
| GREENSNAP | 2 |
| PLANT HEIGHT | Medium |
| EAR PLACEMENT | Medium |
Harvest
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| STAYGREEN | 3 |
| HARVEST APPEARANCE | 3 |
| DRYDOWN | 1 |
| TEST WEIGHT | 4 |
Diseases
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT | 3 |
| SOUTHERN CORN LEAF BLIGHT | - |
| GRAY LEAF SPOT | 4 |
| COMMON RUST | 4 |
| SOUTHERN RUST | - |
| EYE SPOT | 3 |
| ANTHRACNOSE LEAF BLIGHT | 3 |
| STEWART'S LEAF BLIGHT | 3 |
| ANTHRACNOSE STALK ROT | 4 |
| GOSS'S WILT | 5 |
Herbicide
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| GROWTH REGULATORS SENSITIVITY | A |
| SULFONYLUREAS SENSITIVITY | A |
| ISOXAZOLES SENSITIVITY - PRE-EMERGENCE | A |
Silage Characteristics
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| NDFD 24 HR | 3 |
| NDFD 30 HR | 4 |
| % OF STARCH | 2 |
| IVSD7HR | 1 |
| SILAGE YIELD | 3 |
| MILK PER TON | 3 |
| MILK PER ACRE | 3 |
Other
| Characteristic | Value |
|---|---|
| CORN LETHAL NECROSIS | 3 |
Regional seed-guide listings
- Duplicate 2023 Northeast Seed Resource G — agronomist: Shaun Heinbaugh