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Scout 66
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Scout 66 is a historic hard red winter wheat cultivar released in Nebraska, widely grown across the Great Plains in the late 1960s and 1970s for yield and milling quality. It succeeded earlier Turkey Red–derived lines and helped modernise US HRW production before later semi-dwarf eras. Millers used Scout 66 for standard bread flour and export hard red winter. Heritage and breeding references still cite it as an important mid-century Plains cultivar.
Also known as: Historic HRW production
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Scout 66 was released as an improved hard red winter wheat for the central Plains.
Scout 66 rapidly expanded across Nebraska and neighbouring HRW states.
Large US hard red winter acreage was planted to Scout 66 and sister lines.
Newer cultivars with better disease packages replaced Scout 66 commercially.
Scout 66 remained in breeding pedigrees and historical variety lists.
Heritage discussions of Plains wheat cited Scout 66 as a production landmark.