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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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DKC67-66RIB 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-dkc67-66rib-silage
Rating scale (Bayer): 1-9 (9 = best)

Positioning

DKC67-66RIB Brand Blend is a 117 RM silage specific product with strong Western adaptation. A taller robust product that has shown very good silage yield and quality factors.

Strengths & management

Hybrid can provide a very good early season emergence package for early plantings
Has shown good root strength and very good stalk strength
Excellent silage tonnage potential and staygreen for a wider harvest window
Very good silage quality package with emphasis on total starch and starch availability
Genetics can offer good ear smut tolerance
Flex ear type for lower population recommendations
Has demonstrated good heat tolerance
Average Southern rust tolerance, awareness in geographies where heavy pressure can exist

Management

Characteristic	Value
VALUE ADDED TRAIT	SSRIB
RELATIVE MATURITY	117
GDUS TO MID-POLLINATION	1370
GDUS TO BLACK LAYER	2925
PLANTING RATE	Med Low
SILAGE PROVEN	Yes
NEW PRODUCT	NO
VARIETY	01084880

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	2
DROUGHT TOLERANCE	3
GREENSNAP	3
PLANT HEIGHT	Tall
EAR PLACEMENT	Med High

Harvest

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

Diseases

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

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	3
% OF STARCH	3
IVSD7HR	2
SILAGE YIELD	1
MILK PER TON	2
MILK PER ACRE	3

Regional seed-guide listings

NE Colorado, SE Wyoming and W. Nebraska — agronomist: Dustin Schmer
2025 CA Silage Seed Guide — agronomist: Barb Kutzner
2026 South Central/Southwest KS Guide — agronomist: Holly Thrasher
2026 KS and MO — agronomist: Molly Drimmel
2024 Mid-Atlantic Silage — agronomist: Bryan Dillehay
2025 KS and MO — agronomist: Molly Drimmel
2025 SOUTHEAST & SOUTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA — agronomist: Steven Johnsen
Northwest Missouri Silage — agronomist: Jody Foutch
2026 Washington, Oregon, SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Dave Heimkes
Northwest Kansas & Colorado 2026 — agronomist: David Brachtenbach
2026 WTX, OK & NM SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Kagan Randolph
2025 Northern Indiana Seed Guide — agronomist: Jason Harmon
2025 IDAHO, UTAH SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Dave Heimkes
2026 IDAHO, UTAH SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Dave Heimkes
2024 WTX, OK, and NM SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Kagan Randolph
2024 South Central/Southwest Kansas — agronomist: Holly Thrasher
2025 Southwest Nebraska Seed Guide — agronomist: John Skalsky
2026 Desert Southwest Seed Guide — agronomist: Jason Mast
Mid Atlantic — agronomist: Bryan Dillehay
MidAtlantic — agronomist: Bryan Dillehay
Southwest Silage Seed Guide — agronomist: Jason Mast
2025 WTX, OK, and NM SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Kagan Randolph
2025 Washington, Oregon, SEED GUIDE — agronomist: Dave Heimkes
2026 Northern Indiana Seed Guide — agronomist: Jason Harmon
2025 South Central/Southwest KS Guide — agronomist: Holly Thrasher
2026 Southwest Nebraska Seed Guide — agronomist: John Skalsky
Western Missouri — agronomist: Jody Foutch
NE Colorado, SE Wyoming and W. Nebraska — agronomist: Dustin Schmer

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