On behalf of all readers of this Collaboration email, I want to take this opportunity to thank Jonathon Landeck, Don Osborn, and Joni Kindwall-Moore for developing North America Millets Alliance and serving on the board for the past couple years. All three did a fantastic job of presenting all millets grown in North America and exposing potential for others. Jonathon, and his millet experience, will be missed on the North American Millet Alliance board, but I wish him the best in his transition to more family-oriented activities.

There is so much millet experience, mostly hidden, in North America. It is my wish for 2025 and beyond that those with millet talent and knowledge feel free to pass it on through NAMA's collaboration emails, webinars, and other ways that will open through our website in 2025 and beyond....Gary Wietgrefe (NAMA board member)

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   1. A deep thank you to Jonathon Landeck (Don Osborn)
   2. "Andropogon(eae) millets"? (Don Osborn)


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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:30:56 -0500
From: Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org>
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Subject: [Collab] A deep thank you to Jonathon Landeck
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Dear all,

This is a note of gratitude to Jonathon Landeck, who is retiring from the
North American Millets Alliance as of today, the end of 2024. His work and
ideas over the last three plus years has been essential in developing NAMA,
and he will be missed.

Jonathon and I are old friends, having both done graduate work at Michigan
State University (although overlapping only briefly) and having been
colleagues in Peace Corps staff. In late 2021 - the year when the UN
General Assembly set 2023 as the International Year of Millets - I
contacted Jonathon to ask if he'd be interested in doing something to mark
that Year and promote millets in the US. That was the earliest beginning of
what later became NAMA.

We met Joni Kindwall-Moore (virtually) in early 2022, and shortly after
that, together founded NAMA.

Many of you will recall his role in emceeing many of the Millets Webinars
we did in collaboration with the University of Missouri in 2023. However
much of his role with NAMA was behind the scenes, in regular meetings,
discussions, and external contacts.

While we wish Jonathon and his family well, in his next chapter, we would
like to assure you that NAMA is still very active, We welcomed a new member
of our leadership group, Gary Wietgrefe not long ago, and although we are
now back to three members, we are continuing our work and also developing
new plans.

Anyway, thank you again, Jonathon! Happy New Year to you and yours and to
all our friends, colleagues, and supporters!

Don

Don Osborn, PhD
(East Lansing, MI, US)
North American Millets Alliance
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 23:52:41 -0500
From: Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org>
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Subject: [Collab] "Andropogon(eae) millets"?
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As we close out December, in which adlay is our millet of the month, I
wanted to zoom out a bit to consider that three of the millets - adlay,
sorghum, and Taiwan oil millet - and only these three, are in a botanical
tribe called Andropogoneae.

One can identify various groups among the millets, based on various
criteria, but this particular botanical one - the Andropogoneae tribe -
seems interesting for several reasons:
* Corn (maize) and sugar cane are also in this botanical tribe
* Sorghum is the subject of a discussion among some as to whether it is a
millet or not. (We promote it among the millets - nobody really loses in
that.) It is in, any event, by far the most cultivated of these grains
* Adlay (Job's tears) has the largest grain among the millets - sorghum is
second (and pearl millet, of the larger Paniceae tribe, is third)
* Taiwan oil millet *(Spodiopogon formosanus)* is the only one of the
millets cultivated as a perennial (altho on a very small scale)

Is it useful to have a name for this unique small group of three?
"Andropogoneae millets" would be accurate. Shortening the first name by
three letters and a syllable to "Andopogon millets" is tempting. However
"Andropogon" is also the genus name for some species of clumping perennial
grasses, some of which are quite tall. (Interestingly, both sorghum and
Taiwan oil millet were apparently once included in this genus).

In any event, I will leave this idea there.

Don

Don Osborn, PhD
(East Lansing, MI, US)
North American Millets Alliance
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