We usually think of browntop millet (Brachiaria/Urochloa ramosa) in North America as primarily a crop of the US southeast, where it serves as a cover crop and apparently quite often as a crop to attract game birds for hunting. However, it evidently has wider, if perhaps still limited, use as a cover crop and for animal forage. Here are a few videos Browntop is one of "8 Amazing Cover Crops for Vegetable Production" introduced by Moriah Bilenky, at Iowa State University's Horticulture Research Station in 2020 (I see she's now on the faculty at Purdue). This has a nice view of browntop in the field, where it seems to be doing very well, and of course allows comparison with some other cover crops. https://youtu.be/KY2MhKspNBc (starting at 2:12; BTW, note also teff at 4:49; the video begins with sorghum-sudan grass) "Brown Top Millet" is a short (1:51) discussion by Keith Berns & Dale Strickler of Green Cover (Nebraska) about characteristics of this crop, including how it maintains forage quality after maturity better than other millets. https://youtu.be/W6iPJBKc6Bc Noble Research Institute (Oklahoma) looks at browntop in experimental plots in two locations in two years in its "Cover Crop Series: Browntop Millet": 2017 (1:05) https://youtu.be/DxBGHOH6aNo & 2018 ("Location 2"; 0:55) https://youtu.be/Yd-RvkoyZbk . These give quick evaluations. A less favorable evaluation is given in "2025 Summer Cover Crop Brown Top Millet" (1:17) by RioGro, LLC (New Mexico). This may not have been the ideal environment for browntop? https://youtu.be/WJCesrX50X8 In sum, browntop millet is quick maturing, has good root structure, competes well with weeds, and when cut for feeding animals, keeps its forage value longer than some other crops. It seems to do well at least as far north as Iowa, and being a short season crop might conceivably be successfully grown further north. On the other hand, its poor performance in the plot in New Mexico raises questions (it should be fine at higher altitudes, but maybe the rainfall level was marginal for this crop?). We have yet to see experiments on it in this part of the world, as a grain crop for food. Don Osborn, PhD (East Lansing, MI, US) North American Millets Alliance