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)

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

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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
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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-climate-change/article_8ff16c50-2f15-11ef-baca-332fa1b77163.html
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/

bcc: Rob Myers


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
>
> bcc: Rob Myers
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 1:18?PM Brenner, David (CTR) - REE-ARS <
> david.brenner@usda.gov> wrote:
>
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>> https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1180964010/the-united-nations-declares-2023-the-international-year-of-millets
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>> <https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1180964010/the-united-nations-declares-2023-the-international-year-of-millets>
>> The United Nations declares 2023 the International Year of Millets
>> <https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1180964010/the-united-nations-declares-2023-the-international-year-of-millets>
>> 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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Don,

I am quite familiar with Linus Rothermic and have been on his farm a few times, including viewing his Japanese millet fields and talking to him about that crop.

He has worked for many years with one particular buyer on millet for many years who is engaged with seed sales for the wildlife seed industry.  So I think most of the Japanese millet seed he produces was in the past used for wildlife planting such as to attract ducks.  However, more recently, Japanese millet has been used in cover crop plantings, particularly mixes of cover crops, so it wouldn?t surprise me if the buyer that Linus sells to is also reselling some for cover crop use.  I don?t know the name of the buyer.

Rob

From: Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org>
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 11:47?AM
To: "collab@lists.millets2023.space" <collab@lists.millets2023.space>
Subject: Re: National Public Radio on millets, June 8, 2023


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-climate-change/article_8ff16c50-2f15-11ef-baca-332fa1b77163.html
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/

bcc: Rob Myers


On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 12:47?AM Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org<mailto: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

bcc: Rob Myers


On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 1:18?PM Brenner, David (CTR) - REE-ARS <david.brenner@usda.gov<mailto:david.brenner@usda.gov>> wrote:


https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1180964010/the-united-nations-declares-2023-the-international-year-of-millets
[https://media.npr.org/include/images/facebook-default-wide-s1400-c100.jpg]<https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1180964010/the-united-nations-declares-2023-the-international-year-of-millets>
The United Nations declares 2023 the International Year of Millets<https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1180964010/the-united-nations-declares-2023-the-international-year-of-millets>
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<http://www.npr.org/>


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