Raile Farms is an operation in northwest Kansas that grows organic wheat, proso millet, and other crops. https://www.raile.farm/ This past summer, its owner, Tim Raile, posted on LinkedIn a set of three AI images promoting proso millet as food for people. These spoofed the stereotype of the grain as being just bird food by portraying birds as gangsters upset with peple eating it. Altho it’s an interesting effort, I’m not sure this approach works. Nevertheless, if you want to take a look, here are links (these are not on their website, and Google search did not find them): * https://lnkd.in/p/gqEXC3Tq * https://lnkd.in/p/g2NdkmYf * https://lnkd.in/p/gDbZqs6x The larger proso millet story is actually a lot more interesting than whether it often goes into bird food mixes. Grains and grain-bearing crops, including millets, have a lot of non-food uses, including feeding animals. Personally, I would rather pivot off of the image of millets as ancient grains as a way of changing the narrative. In the case of proso, one could paint several scenarios from the distant past that have been illuminated by archeobotanical and historical research - beginning with origins in ancient China, then changes in Central Asia as it spread west, then presence in Bronze Age central Europe, then the Middle East (apparently the millet mentioned in the Book of Ezekiel), then maybe middle ages in West Europe, and finally from there to North America and beyond. Could such an approach help build an image of this millet beyond current popular perceptions? Could such an approach be accompanied by "ancient recipes," to the extent one can reconstruct them? And could all this be similarly developed for other millets? What other approaches might work? Don Osborn, PhD (East Lansing, MI, US) North American Millets Alliance