
Since before the founding of NAMA, I have been personally fond of saying "North America will produce more millets for diverse uses, and consume more millets as food from diverse sources." While I think that remains broadly true, I'm reflecting on Gary's research on the extent of cultivation of millets (proso, pearl, foxtail, Japanese barnyard, teff, and browntop, not to mention the giant in this equation, sorghum). and whether the first part of the above statement might be revised somehow. In other words, in terms of cultivating millets for diverse purposes, we're already doing a lot of that - even if official statistics don't always reflect it. And while it's always possible to grow more, is the more interesting dynamic here something more qualitative? How might we express that? The second part of the statement seems to hold more steady. While we certainly will be getting more domestically-grown food grade millets - even if this is as much a qualitative as quantitative process - the import of various millets as CPGs, many of which we don't grow for food, will just as certainly continue (even despite tariffs). Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks in advance, Don Don Osborn, PhD (East Lansing, MI, US) North American Millets Alliance