[Avodah] Does the prohibition of chodosh apply in the diaspora?

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 04/11/16 12:41, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
>
> Se'if 18: In Russia, the winters are long. No one would be planting wheat
> before Pesach -- it is an ignorable miqreh rechoqah. According to the USDA
> 1997 <https://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/nass/planting/uph97.pdf>
> wheat planting could start as early as Mar 1 (beginning of the season
> in Washington and Oregon). So this heter wouldn't apply in the US. And
> the AhS says it wouldn't work in Germany or Poland.

You have this backwards.  He says that in Russia this heter *doesn't* 
work.  In Germany and Poland it does, and according to your information 
the same would be true of America.

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