With drought prospects this spring and summer from Texas through western North Dakota, and cattle prices at record highs, this is  the time to have ranchers plant pearl millet as options for grazing and haying. Commercial forage producers, or where winter wheat fails or is pulled off by early July, pearl millet would be an excellent second crop forage option, especially if lightly irrigated where that is an option in Nebraska and south.

To prolong fall grazing to save winter cattle and dairy feed, pearl millet can be grazed through early frosts because pearl millet does not produce prussic acid like forage sorghums do when frosted.

Local seed companies, especially local farm service cooperatives have access to several grazing, haying and chopped pearl millets through Croplan Genetics. See crop_sg25_masterchart_foragesorghum_v3.pdf

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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:49:36 -0700
From: Joni Kindwall-Moore <joni@snacktivistfoods.com>
To: Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org>
Cc: collab@lists.millets2023.space
Subject: Re: [Collab] Pearl millet as "ruminant rocket fuel"?
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Hundred percent agree!!


On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:45?AM Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org> wrote:

> Thanks, Joni. What strikes me about what we see with regard to pearl
> millet in North America, as related in our 4/17 Millets Webinar, the recent
> research on pearl millet in breads, and this piece about this crop as
> forage, is that we might be looking at some significant increase
> inattention to this crop overall.
>
> Lots happening with millets generally, but thinking about this one today.
>
> Don
>
> DO, EL, MI, US
> NAMA
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 12:32?PM Joni Kindwall-Moore <
> joni@snacktivistfoods.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow, fantastic insight Don
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 8:36?AM Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On the topic of pearl millet for animal forage here is a
>>> video conversation from last year on hybrid pearl millet for forage that
>>> gets deep into specifics.
>>> * "Hybrid Pearl Millet... What are you missing? Chris Leach and Jeff
>>> Jackson," 29 Mar 2024 (short version, 23:42)
>>> https://youtu.be/x8H-WTDrTQI
>>> * "Pearl Millet Full Version...making #COWCHOW" (long version, 1:21:42)
>>> https://youtu.be/tZeghVwD0Bw
>>> The phrase "ruminant rocket fuel" came up in the discussion, reflecting
>>> the nutritional profile of pearl millet as livestock forage. The parameters
>>> mentioned are high crude protein and NDSB levels (the latter apparently has
>>> to do with digestibility), in addition to the crop being able to succeed in
>>> diverse climates (when soil and air temperatures are high enough).
>>>
>>> One of the two participants in this video, Chris Leach (whose bio or
>>> affiliation I've not been able to find) suggests, beginning at the 02:44
>>> mark in the shorter video (9:50, long version), that decline of levels in
>>> the Oglala aquifer may lead to more use of pearl millet in dairy operations
>>> in the western US. He further suggests a pearl millet system could be a
>>> "game changer" in the next 5 years.
>>>
>>> The other participant and evidently the host, Jay Jackson (affiliated
>>> with Croplan, a seed company owned by Land-O-Lakes, Inc.), has a high
>>> profile on YouTube, including this earlier short video on pearl millet for
>>> forage. Some readers may prefer to start with this short description before
>>> getting into either of the longer versions.
>>> "Ruminant rocket fuel: Pearl Millets might be the next answer?" 27 March
>>> 2020 (04:52) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRojP1mgWGQ
>>>
>>> Is pearl millet poised to become more important as a forage crop in
>>> North America?
>>>
>>> Don Osborn, PhD
>>> (East Lansing, MI, US  - +1 202-621-3911)
>>> North American Millets Alliance
>>>
>>>
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:50:21 -0400
From: Om Dangi <aercom.dangi@gmail.com>
To: Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org>
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Thank you all. It is really changing the food and feed habit in Human and
animal,respectively.
Regards






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On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 2:46?PM Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org> wrote:

> Thanks, Joni. What strikes me about what we see with regard to pearl
> millet in North America, as related in our 4/17 Millets Webinar, the recent
> research on pearl millet in breads, and this piece about this crop as
> forage, is that we might be looking at some significant increase
> inattention to this crop overall.
>
> Lots happening with millets generally, but thinking about this one today.
>
> Don
>
> DO, EL, MI, US
> NAMA
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 12:32?PM Joni Kindwall-Moore <
> joni@snacktivistfoods.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow, fantastic insight Don
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 8:36?AM Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On the topic of pearl millet for animal forage here is a
>>> video conversation from last year on hybrid pearl millet for forage that
>>> gets deep into specifics.
>>> * "Hybrid Pearl Millet... What are you missing? Chris Leach and Jeff
>>> Jackson," 29 Mar 2024 (short version, 23:42)
>>> https://youtu.be/x8H-WTDrTQI
>>> * "Pearl Millet Full Version...making #COWCHOW" (long version, 1:21:42)
>>> https://youtu.be/tZeghVwD0Bw
>>> The phrase "ruminant rocket fuel" came up in the discussion, reflecting
>>> the nutritional profile of pearl millet as livestock forage. The parameters
>>> mentioned are high crude protein and NDSB levels (the latter apparently has
>>> to do with digestibility), in addition to the crop being able to succeed in
>>> diverse climates (when soil and air temperatures are high enough).
>>>
>>> One of the two participants in this video, Chris Leach (whose bio or
>>> affiliation I've not been able to find) suggests, beginning at the 02:44
>>> mark in the shorter video (9:50, long version), that decline of levels in
>>> the Oglala aquifer may lead to more use of pearl millet in dairy operations
>>> in the western US. He further suggests a pearl millet system could be a
>>> "game changer" in the next 5 years.
>>>
>>> The other participant and evidently the host, Jay Jackson (affiliated
>>> with Croplan, a seed company owned by Land-O-Lakes, Inc.), has a high
>>> profile on YouTube, including this earlier short video on pearl millet for
>>> forage. Some readers may prefer to start with this short description before
>>> getting into either of the longer versions.
>>> "Ruminant rocket fuel: Pearl Millets might be the next answer?" 27 March
>>> 2020 (04:52) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRojP1mgWGQ
>>>
>>> Is pearl millet poised to become more important as a forage crop in
>>> North America?
>>>
>>> Don Osborn, PhD
>>> (East Lansing, MI, US  - +1 202-621-3911)
>>> North American Millets Alliance
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Collab mailing list
>>> Collab@lists.millets2023.space
>>> https://lists.millets2023.space/mailman/listinfo/collab
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