Japanese millet seed is available for many uses (forage, grazing, cover crops, etc.)and is distributed across the U.S. A few suppliers are Deer Creek Seed Co., Windsor, WI; Albert Lea Seed Farm, Albert Lea, MN; Johnston Seed Co. Enid, OK; Renovo Seed, Brookings, SD who also distribute Teff. Fifty pound bags of Japanese millet can be ordered through Amazon and even Walmart on-line. I see no reason why a U.S. food processor that wants to try Japanese millet could not purchase significant quantities of untreated seed to perform hulling and lab tests. Secondly, in my book, How to Produce Proso Millet: A Farmer's Guide, I mentioned on page 197, "Although grown primarily in the southeastern U.S., Japanese millet has been seeded in 1989 along the banks of Oahe Reservoir on the Missouri River of South Dakota. The purpose of the seeding was for bank forage for fish and wildlife." See (2) (PDF) How to Produce Proso Millet: A Farmer's Guide (researchgate.net) <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284179184_How_to_Produce_Proso_Millet_A_Farmer's_Guide> Also, I think it was 1990 that a seed company (now out of operation after the owner died) had me check a field of their Japanese millet near Miller, SD. It was about an 80 acre field intended for seed production. Considering central South Dakota's semi-arid climate, I observed Japanese millet seed production would produce more yield in areas receiving more rainfall--even eastern SD.....Gary Wietgrefe On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 11:05 AM <collab-request@lists.millets2023.space> wrote:
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1. Re: National Public Radio on millets, June 8, 2023 (Don Osborn) 2. Re: National Public Radio on millets, June 8, 2023 (Myers, Robert L.)
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:47:20 -0400 From: Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org> To: "collab@lists.millets2023.space" <collab@lists.millets2023.space> Subject: Re: [Collab] National Public Radio on millets, June 8, 2023 Message-ID: <CA+RHibU=rHUQkdB26_LUMGELkVrA= moJ6XtTa-8F+ejN68zbpA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Eva Tesfaye's very nice June 2023 Harvest Public Media / NPR piece on millets has just been resurfaced on AgUpdate.com's "Agri-View,"/1 so I'd like to revisit a question posed at that time regarding Japanese (barnyard) millet./2
The article mentioned Missouri farmer Linus Rothermich's growing of Japanese millet (presumably Echinochloa esculenta) for grain. I had wondered what end use(s) the grain had.
Without attempting to contact Mr. Rothermich directly, I did a little more digging, and it seems that he is growing seed for planting this millet as a cover crop./3 In other words, as I understand it, he sells the Japanese millet seed he produces to seed suppliers, which in turn sell to other farmers to plant as cover crops.
In the previous thread on the original NPR article,/2 Dipak suggested that the Japanese millet seed could in principle be dehulled and used for human food. At this time, however, I have no information on commercial production of any barnyard millet for human consumption in North America, but would be most interested to learn of it.
Don Osborn, PhD (East Lansing, MI, US) North American Millets Alliance
Notes: 1. "Millets could aid in surviving climate change" by Eva Tesfaye, Harvest Public Media,
https://agupdate.com/agriview/news/crop/millets-could-aid-in-surviving-clima... 2. You can see the old thread with the same title as this posting in Collab's June 2023 archive: https://lists.millets2023.space/pipermail/collab/2023-June/thread.html 3. "Linus Rothermich, Auxvasse, MO," National Association of Conservation Districts, (no date) https://www.nacdnet.org/soil-champs/north-central/linus-rothermich/
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On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 12:47?AM Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org> wrote:
Thank you, David, I appreciate your sharing this. It's of course another version of the radio segment that aired last month on a more local scale (Kansas CIty, apparently): https://www.kcur.org/2023-05-17/millets-drought-climate-united-nations . Altho shorter, the NPR Morning Edition version captures all the main points. And of course it went out nationally in the US, which is great.
Regarding the content of the segment, I'm particularly curious to know more about the Japanese millet (Echinochloa esculenta) that Linus Rothermich is growing - what are the markets for this grain in North America? I am aware of the plant's use as forage and for wildlife in the US.
TIA for any more info,
Don
DO, EL, MI, US NAMA
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On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 1:18?PM Brenner, David (CTR) - REE-ARS < david.brenner@usda.gov> wrote:
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Millets, an alternative crop to corn and soybeans, is getting new attention in the U.S. The resilient grain could help U.S. farmers survive climate change. www.npr.org
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