Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) is our "millet-of-the-month" for March again in 2024. It is the second most cultivated of the millets (or third, counting sorghum). It is grown for grain mostly in Asia (esp. China & India). In North America it is mainly grown for hay or cover crop, but imported foxtail grain for human consumption can be found in Asian food markets or onlne.

Three items about this millet may be of interest:

* "All About Foxtail Millet: 3 Tips for Cooking With Foxtail Millet," MasterClass.com, 7 June 2021 https://www.masterclass.com/articles/foxtail-millet-guide (A quick and to-the-point intro with some basics, this could be a template for other millets)

* Singh, R.K., Muthamilarasan, M., Prasad, M. (2017). "Foxtail Millet: An Introduction." In: Prasad, M. (eds) The Foxtail Millet Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65617-5_1 or https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320536530_Foxtail_Millet_An_Introduction (So you want more than a Wikipedia article? This introductory chapter from a book on foxtail millet has a lot of information.)

* González-Rabanal, B., Marín-Arroyo, A.B., Cristiani, E. et al. (2022) "The arrival of millets to the Atlantic coast of northern Iberia." Scientific Reports 12, 18589 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23227-4 (Evidence from the western end of Eurasia about ancient cultivation of foxtail and proso millets that came from East Asia. Millets are really ancient crops, with foxtail millet being perhaps the oldest.)

In the attached image, the left hand part was seen on two sites: https://www.chenabgourmet.com/youll-never-believe-how-millets-can-save-the-earth/ & https://agronfoodprocessing.com/from-farm-to-table-the-journey-of-millets-in-modern-food-systems/ . The right hand part is a stock photo.