Bulletin from the Guide to Chodosh

[Y. Herman]

CHODOSH BULLETIN AS OF 31 Jul 06



The email that I received from the US Department of Agriculture today 
signals the official start of the full new Chodosh season. They reported 
that by the end of last week, the week ending Jul 30, the harvest of the 
spring wheat and barley crops have begun. By that time, 22% of the USA 
grown spring wheat and 17% of the  barley has already been harvested. (A 
week earlier, there was still no reported harvest of these crops.) The oats 
crop harvest began earlier, around Jul 16. (Actually, by Jul 9, 11% of the 
oats was harvested, by Jul 16 the harvest of oats was 18%. I will use the 
later date, Jul 16, as the effective harvest date for oats.) These dates 
are about 1-2 weeks earlier than usual.

Based on the new guidelines, the table below gives the working dates that 
will be used in this years Guide to Chodosh. The spring wheat dates will be 
used for breads, rolls, challehs, pizza, bagels, yeast cakes and other 
bread-like products that are not produced from Yoshon flour. It will also 
be used for cereals, baking flour and other wheat products where it is not 
possible to be certain that only winter wheat is used. The recommended 
pasta and noodle cutoff dates are a week later. These dates are summarized 
in the table below. In the table, there are two dates given. One is the 
Chodosh PACKING date. Any package that was packed before this date will be 
assumed to be Yoshon. The next column is the cutoff for the PURCHASE date. 
Whatever you buy in the store before that date is probably still Yoshon. It 
is suggested that you stock up on important items at this time, with oats 
items being more urgent. However, it should be possible to easily find many 
products in the stores even after the suggested cutoff purchase dates by 
using dating codes. Those who have last years Guide to Chodosh, can use the 
dating code systems given there for packaged foods to find foods packed 
before the recommended Chodosh packing dates. We will try our best to get 
the new Guide completed and mailed out by the end of August.

CROP        CHODOSH PACKING DATE                            PURCHASE DATE 
IN STORES

Spring wheat            Aug 
9                                                   Aug 30

Pasta, noodles          Aug 
16                                                 Sept 6

Barley                          Aug 
9                                                   Aug 30

Oats                            Jul 
26                                                   Aug 16



Y. Herman

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