Except for oats, the harvest of spring wheat and barley has not yet
started. The hard red
winter wheat crop has very low protein for the second year in the row,
making it more necessary to blend in spring wheat to items marked "winter
wheat". We are alerting the mashgichim about this continued
UPDATE FROM THE GUIDE TO CHODOSH
Preliminary news as of Aug 14
The harvest of the Chodosh crops is very much in progress, with about 1/3
of the new spring wheat, about ¼ of the barley and about ¾ of the oats
already harvested. I expect that some bakeries in the Mid West may already
be using
