1. I bought some edible home use finger millet grain and ran a little home viability test on it. It germinated at about 20% which is enough is enough you have a kilo of seeds. It was bought off the shelf at Konark Grocery in Des Moines, Iowa. The brand is Manna and it is imported from India. I imagine you have similar retailers in your area. Their foxtail millet of the same Manna brand germinated but the barnyard and little millet did not germinate. David Brenner NC7 Ames, Iowa ________________________________ From: Collab <collab-bounces@lists.millets2023.space> on behalf of Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org> Sent: Sunday, May 4, 2025 10:34 PM To: collab@lists.millets2023.space <collab@lists.millets2023.space> Subject: [EXTERNAL: Suspicious Link][Collab] All U.S./Canada millets available CAUTION: This message triggered warnings of potentially malicious web content. Consider whether you are expecting the message, along with inspection for suspicious links, prior to clicking. Any concerns with known senders, use a good contact method to verify. Send Questions or Suspicious messages to: Spam.Abuse@usda.gov Passing this on from Gary regarding seed sources for several different millets. I would just add a minor one: The Mutual Admiration Seed Association (MASA) in Boulder, CO is selling small quantities of finger millet that from the description come from a variety in India cultivated for grain. In the US, some people plant finger millet as a garden ornamental - for example, "dragon's claw" is an ornamental variety I saw elsewhere. Anyway gardeners are apparently MASA's main market. But anyone wanting to experiment on a very small scale with our May millet-of-the-month might find this interesting: https://masaseedfoundation.org/products/grain-ragi-finger-millet Gary's links below are to farm suppliers for serious quantities of seed of other millets. DO, EL, MI, US NAMA ---------- Forwarded message --------- For anyone wanting a choice of foxtail, pearl, Japanese, brown top, and proso millet seed in the U.S. or Canada, they can get it all from one company. U.S.: You searched for millet - Millborn<https://www.millbornseeds.com/?s=millet&post_type=product> (https://www.millbornseeds.com/?s=millet&post_type=product) Canada: 25-Renovo-Seed-CAN_All-electronic.pdf<https://www.renovoseed.com/ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/25-Renovo-Seed-CAN_All-electronic.pdf> (drop to "Warm Season Grasses" Not that NAMA should promote one seed company over another, but Millborn Seed has the U.S. covered with dealerships and is well represented in Canada....Gary -- Author, Gary W. Wietgrefe This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email immediately.