Since January 2024 is planned for proso, I thought the group would be interested in a 2:35 minute YouTube video I released last Friday. Though we keep encouraging millet use, there really is not much information out there on how and why to put millet into a crop rotation. This quick video, my eighth on millets, tells how to put proso into a wheat/millet/soybean or field pea rotation....Gary WietgrefeOn Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 5:07 AM <collab-request@lists.millets2023.space> wrote:Send Collab mailing list submissions to
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1. Re: Teff: November millet-of-the-month (Don Osborn)
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Quick addendum - November in the Whole Grains Council's "Grain of the
Month" calendar has "Millet(s) and teff" listed. See:
https://wholegrainscouncil.org/whole-grains-101/grain-month-calendar/millet-and-teff-%E2%80%93-november-grains-month
Their grain calendar was one of the inspirations for our "Millet of the
Month" calendar, and these overlap in June with sorghum, and this month
with teff. NAMA of course expands "millets" across the whole year.
Here again is the current millet of the month calendar. For 2024. there has
been a suggestion to move little millet to February, so that the Panicum
species of millets would be in adjacent months. If you have any suggestions
regarding this ordering, please let us know.
Jan., proso millet, Panicum miliaceum
Feb., finger millet, Eleusine coracana
Mar., foxtail millet, Setaria italica
Apr., pearl millet, Pennisetum glaucum
May, fonio, Digitaria spp.
June, sorghum, Sorghum bicolor
July, barnyard millet, Echinochloa spp.
Aug., little millet, Panicum sumatrense (plus P. hirticaule, sometimes
called Sonoran millet)
Sep., browntop & Guinea, Brachiaria spp.
Oct., kodo millet, Paspalum scrobiculatum
Nov., teff, Eragrostis tef
Dec., adlay/Job?s Tears, Coix lacryma-jobi
DO, EL, MI, US
NAMA
On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 10:27?PM Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org> wrote:
> Teff (Eragrostis tef) is our millet-of-the-month in November. Teff is
> native to the Horn of Africa, and a staple in that region - often eaten in
> the form of injera bread, made with fermented teff flour.
>
> Ninety percent or more of grain teff is grown in Ethiopia. However
> interest in this grain has led to its being grown in other regions,
> including in North America (certain parts of the US, the northwest in
> particular it seems). Some teff is exported from Ethiopia, but most of what
> one sees in some US groceries is grown domestically (Maskal, Bob's Red
> Mill, Selam, Shiloh Farms, to name a few). Supposedly, Idaho is the second
> largest producer of grain teff in the world.
>
> Brown teff seems more common, but there are lighter varieties too,
> generally called "ivory teff." The former has a somewhat more robust
> flavor, but the two apparently have different characteristics in baking.
>
> Teff has also become a popular forage crop in the US and Canada. It is
> grown for hay or grazing apparently in half the US states, although
> presumably on relatively small scales.
>
> Here are a few links for more information:
> * General information
> ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teff
> ** https://www.britannica.com/plant/teff
> ** https://foodrevolution.org/blog/teff/
>
> * Teff in the US
> **
> https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/east-african-grain-teff-grows-in-popularity-in-us/6508044.html
> **
> https://boisedev.com/news/2022/09/09/whats-teff-idaho-second-highest-producer-of-the-grain-in-the-world/
>
> * Culinary aspects of teff
> **
> https://creativeinmykitchen.com/all-about-teff-the-ancient-grain-gaining-popularity/
> ** https://www.thespruceeats.com/teff-gluten-free-whole-grain-3376844
>
> * Forage
> **
> https://forages.osu.edu/sites/forages/files/imce/Teff%20for%20Forage%20Production.pdf
>
> * A perspective on teff in Ethiopia
> **
> https://theconversation.com/ethiopia-needs-to-improve-production-of-its-golden-crop-teff-heres-how-112987
>
>
>
> Don Osborn, PhD
> (East Lansing, MI, US)
> North American Millets Alliance
>
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