Breeder: Senova Ltd
Status: HGCA Recommended List UK

• Group 3 biscuit wheat
• uks soft wheat for export
• Very stiff straw
• Top Group 3 specific weight and impressive Hagberg
• Excellent yellow rust resistance
• Exceptional eyespot resistance
• Resistant to orange blossom midge
• Tolerant to chlortoluron

Source: HGCA RL 2011/12 (full database at www.hgca.com)

Scout combines top quality, desired field charateristics, excellent disease resistance and high yields in all rotations, ensuring it will have a wide appeal for both growers and the market. It is an ideal variety choice for the second wheat slot.

Source: HGCA RL 2011/12. Full database is available at www.hgca.com

With its excellent agronomic features and superb disease resistance Scout offers flexibility on disease control, providing a variety which is easier to manage and reducing the risk to the grower.

Source: HGCA RL 2010/11. (varieties with >4% market share + Robigus)

Scout has very stiff straw and the best lodging resistance of any Group 3 varieties.

The disease resistance of Scout is superb, particularly to eyespot and importantly both yellow and brown rust. Scout is also resistant to orange wheat blossom midge (OWBM).

Scout, pdf

Winter wheat

Variety cards

Scout Agronomy

Trial seed orders

Diversification table

Market segmentation is now all important with winter wheat. With superb Group 3 quality, Scout is now the Number 1 Group 3 wheat in the UK for milling and the large export market.

Scout is well suited for all soil types and rotations, both the first and the second wheat slot, where it shows no drop off in yield. It has a robust disease resistance spectrum, plus the benefit of resistance to orange wheat blossom midge.

Scout combines top quality, desired field characters, excellent disease resistance and very good yields, ensuring it has a wide appeal for growers and the market.

GRAIN QUALITY

Scout is classified uks for export and requires no blending.
With an impressive specific weight of 78.4, the highest of any Group 3 varieties and better than the leading Group 4 varieties, and an excellent hagberg even in poor seasons, Scout has superb grain characters, ensuring excellent market opportunities for the variety. Scout has consistently performed well in milling tests. It shows good resistance to sprouting.

Senova Ltd, 49 North Road, Great Abington, Cambridge CB21 6AS Tel: +44 (0)1223 890777, Fax: +44 (0)1223 890666 Email: info@senova.uk.com

	Specific weight (kg/hl)	HFN	Protein	Resistance to sprouting
Scout	78.4	224	11.6	6
Robigus	76.7	200	11.2	5
Claire	76.8	235	11.4	5

YIELDS

	Scout	Robigus	Claire
2nd or more cereal T yield (9.4 t/ha)	100	98	96
Light soils (10.4 t/ha)	99	100	96
Heavy soils (10.9 t/ha)	100	101	98
Before 6 Oct (10.7 t/ha)	99	101	98

STRAW STRENGTH

	Resistance to lodging without PGR	Resistance to lodging with PGR	Height (cm)
Scout	8	9	90
Robigus	7	7	90
Claire	7	7	91

DISEASE RESISTANCE

	Scout	Robigus	Claire
Mildew	6	6	4
Yellow rust	9	2	9
Brown rust	9	6	5
Septoria nodorum	8	7	7
Septoria tritici	6	6	6
Eyespot	8	5	6
Fusarium	6	6	6
OWBM	R	R	-

SOWING DATE

Scout is best suited to drilling from early September until the end of January. Scout has all of the attributes for early drilling – slow to GS31 from an early September sowing (Scout +8, Claire +5), stiff straw, excellent disease resistance and high specific weight.

Scout is a little shy on tillering. We would suggest you increase your sowing rate by 25 seeds/m2 above your normal rate. Consult your agronomist.

Despite its very stiff straw, a routine application of PGR would be recommended with Scout at GS 31.

Scout has a harvest date similar to Alchemy. Premium potential for biscuit and export markets means that priority should be given to Scout at harvest. It should be stored separately to maximise the premium potential.