Welcome De Anna, and thanks for sharing your interest. Thanks also to Joni, who among us has the most direct experience with proso farming (we're assuming this is the millet in question - there are many others, but not grown as food in this part of the world).

I'm especially curious to know more about the the brewer your talking with and how they use millet. I found online one brewer in Colorado - Grouse Malt House - that is says "we have found White Proso Millet to be the champion of them all because it produces fantastic results in the brew house." See: https://grousemalthouse.com/millet-birdseed-breweries/

As background, various millets are used in production of beverages, both alcoholic and non alcoholic. In West Africa, for example, pearl millet is brewed into a low alcohol beverage that is basically served warm & unfiltered as it is still fermenting. (I think processing it for bottling would change it completely, but it's not something I've researched).

In Uganda, finger millet (which by the way is quite high in calcium) is malted into a non-alcoholic beverage called bushera that is canned or bottled for sale and limited export. It also is not filtered. So these millet drinks are in some ways foods as much as beverages.

Returning to proso millet,  one imagines that there could be some interesting beverage options in addition to whatever brewers like the one you know and Grouse are doing.

All the best,

Don
(Writing from East Lansing, MI)

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On Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 at 12:19 PM, D. Joni Kindwall-Moore <joni@snacktivistfoods.com> wrote:

Hi DeAnna,
Thank you for reaching out to us on behalf of the NAMA team.
We would love to discuss. Thanks for reaching out. Are you looking to plant this year? Is the brewer looking for proso millet?
Let’s plan a time to connect. This is Joni, I’m on the NAMA team but also own a company that makes food products out of Proso millet,

Thanks!
Joni

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 4:52 AM DeAnna Lozensky via Collab <collab@lists.millets2023.space> wrote:
Hey there! My husband and i are grain farmers on our 2000 acre plant based farm. We grow many grains including ancient grains, flax, peas, mustard, wheats & barley. We have been considering millet at a request from a beer malter. We use soil care practices. No tillage, no fertilizer, no insecticide, no fungicide no desiccants. Im interested in learning more

De Anna Lozensky
Ndfarmgirl1@gmail.com
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