While on the topic of barnyard millets and their wild relatives this month, mention should be made of Echinochloa turneriana, a species native to the Australian outback that is given the name, "Channel millet." 

This species has attracted the attention of a research group including geneticists and archaeologists - the latter since Channel millet may have once been a food of the Mithaka people of central Australia./1

However, some earlier research (in the 1980s) on E. turneriana, which compared it with E. esculenta (formerly E. utilis) and E. frumentacea, concluded: "No compelling physiological reason was found for the domestication of Channel millet vis-à-vis other millets."/2

The name "Channel millet" comes from Channel Country, which is an eastern area of central Australia./3 The Mithaka or Mitaka are an aboriginal people of that continent, whose language is extinct./4

In any event, this is something to watch from afar.