Hard winter wheats have a higher gluten protein content than other wheats. They are used to make flour for yeast breads, or are blended with soft spring wheats to make the all-purpose flourused in a wide variety of baked products. Pure soft wheat is used for specialty or cake flour. Durum, the hardest wheat, is primarily used for making pasta. Almost all durum wheat grown in North America is spring-planted.[2]
Winter wheat is grown throughout Europe and North America, and in Siberia.
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Thanks!
I heard of it but I read that will be harvested in July in Germany so it didnt really help to solve the riddle for me. 
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I highly doubt anybody is harvesting any grain crops in Europe at this time of the year, they certainly don’t be here in Ireland.
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Lol have you checked out the food thread? O/U on posters with sufficient taste buds at 5. Chewbacca will be here shortly to regale us.
It’s not spring harvest. Ukraine is pretty much on the same farming schedule as the northern midwest. They are just getting ready to start planting. Winter wheat isn’t harvested until summer, late June or early July. Much of the crop gets either stored at individual farms or at local delivery points, and sold and delivered throughout the year. This is the grain they are talking about. Grain that was harvested last summer (wheat) or last fall (corn).
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When I opened this thread I was definitely not expecting a couple dozen posts about whether or not you can harvest wheat in the spring. Some of you are alarmingly disconnected from the basics of agriculture.
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And I don’t think the general public understands what might be coming for world food supplies. Stocks of grain were already getting a little tight worldwide. Take out the large amount of grain tied up in Ukraine and Russia, probably a severely reduced spring planting for Ukraine, and we are the slightest hiccup in the US growing season from complete disaster, mostly in the poor countries that have to import most of their grain.
This is a surprise to you?
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It may surprise zikzik to learn that many of don’t know how to start a fire with a couple of rocks and some sticks
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winter wheat is planted to overwinter but is still harvested in the fall.
unless i’m getting ponied/trolled
Rocks and sticks are generally not sufficient to start a fire.
Where are they? Poland?
The Guardian talks about a surprise trip to Kyiv.
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I don’t know Zelenskyy that well but to me that look says I can’t wait to wash my hands.
Bruh I’ve studied clarkstons farm closely
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Could be very bad indeed. Russia is world #1 wheat exporter, mostly to middle east and Africa, through Novorossiysk. Which is effectively closed because nobody will insure a ship going there because the war. Last time Russian supply was choked half this much was 2010, bread prices tripled in the middle east and subsequent unrest led to the Arab Spring --revolutions in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, the Syrian civil war… A level of hunger and political instability unseen in our lifetimes is totally on the table.
This seems like a good rough summary of Putin’s special military operation up to now.
https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1512816453459877895?s=20&t=mk6Fy4zKD2-tAhKDKhgQEw