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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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DP 1822 XF BRAND

Vendor: Bayer
Brand: Deltapine
Crop: Cotton
Traits: XF (XtendFlex®)
Source: https://www.cropscience.bayer.us/cotton/deltapine/deltapine-dp-1822-xf-cotton
Rating scale (Bayer): 1-9 (9 = best)

Positioning

XtendFlex® only cotton variety with excellent fiber quality potential and great fit on tough acre.

Strengths & management

Scout for bollworms during mid to late season
Very good fiber length and strength
Average seed size of approximately 4,800 seed per pound
Fits tough acre

Growth

Characteristic	Value
RELATIVE MATURITY	Early-Mid
# FRT NODES	11.4
LEAF TYPE	Semi Smooth
NFFB	7
PLANT HEIGHT	Med-Tall
SEED SIZE	4280 - 5400
STORM RESISTANCE	3

Fiber Quality

Characteristic	Value
LINT %	37.9
MICRONAIRE	4.3
STAPLE	38
STRENGTH	30.4
LENGTH UNIF. %	81.8

Disease

Characteristic	Value
VERTICILLIUM WILT	Mod
BACTERIAL BLIGHT	Res
FUSARIUM	-

Regional seed-guide listings

Southern High Plains — agronomist: Eric Best
2025 South Central/Southwest KS Guide — agronomist: Holly Thrasher
2024 WTX, OK, and NM SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Kagan Randolph
2026 WTX, OK & NM SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Kagan Randolph
West Texas Cotton Growing Region — agronomist: Corey Thompson
2025 WTX, OK, and NM SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Kagan Randolph

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DP 1822 XF BRAND

Positioning

Strengths & management

Growth

Fiber Quality

Disease

Regional seed-guide listings

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