Hello everyone, thanks for your continued support and great answers to my questions. Does anyone have experience in dehulling pearl or foxtail millet at scale? thanks *Joni Kindwall-Moore BSN-RN, BA* Founder, CEO, Innovator, Mother, Nurse, Activist *P: 406-334-1608* *www.snacktivistfoods.com <http://www.snacktivistfoods.com/>* *Scan this QR code to experience the Snacktivist Nation! *
Hi Joni, Pearl millet, like sorghum, doesn't have a hull like the small millets do. Lost Crops of Africa (Vol. 1)* has this: "Some thresh free from glumes, while others require husking." Various kinds of threshing / husking devices have been developed. A quick search online came up with lots of webpages on various related topics/ For foxtail, no info, but can machines that dehull proso be used for its smaller grains? HTH, Don DO, EL, MI, US NAMA Notes: * https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/2305/chapter/7 On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 1:12 PM Joni Kindwall-Moore < joni@snacktivistfoods.com> wrote:
Hello everyone, thanks for your continued support and great answers to my questions. Does anyone have experience in dehulling pearl or foxtail millet at scale? thanks
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SO just cleaning, I wonder how it is threshed or separated from the panicle? I have never worked with pearl millet other than buying a bag of it at an import market, so really interested to learn more. It is delicious. I have a number of farmers in my network who grow it, but none of them harvest the seed other than for replanting. They sell the biomass into livestock feed channels. We have had conversations about developing a market path for the seed as all of the domestic pearl millet for human consumption, at least that I have found, is imported.
From my understanding, pearl millet has nice yields too although I have not had the time to really explore it. We (colleagues and I) are setting up a processing facility to handle gluten-free, alternative crops like millet, hull-less high-protein oats, and perhaps some other reawakened crops. I would like to start exploring other millets that could be processed in that facility.
On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 10:26 AM Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org> wrote:
Hi Joni,
Pearl millet, like sorghum, doesn't have a hull like the small millets do.
Lost Crops of Africa (Vol. 1)* has this: "Some thresh free from glumes, while others require husking." Various kinds of threshing / husking devices have been developed.
A quick search online came up with lots of webpages on various related topics/
For foxtail, no info, but can machines that dehull proso be used for its smaller grains?
HTH, Don
DO, EL, MI, US NAMA
Notes: * https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/2305/chapter/7
On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 1:12 PM Joni Kindwall-Moore < joni@snacktivistfoods.com> wrote:
Hello everyone, thanks for your continued support and great answers to my questions. Does anyone have experience in dehulling pearl or foxtail millet at scale? thanks
*Joni Kindwall-Moore BSN-RN, BA* Founder, CEO, Innovator, Mother, Nurse, Activist
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Dear Joni, Hope everyone is well. We have a setup in India where we work on farm side as well as in manufacturing side. I'll like to share my knowledge: a. Major millets like - sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet needs "thresher" on farm level to remove seeds from its pinnacle and remove paper thin layer that holds it to the pinnacle. b. Minor millets like: foxtail, proso, kodo, little, barnyard, browntop, jobstears need - - thresher - destoner - huller - polisher (some need it) - gravity seperator - color seperator This completes the process of millet becomes edible. If anymore details needed I am happy to share. I hope this could be usefull. Thanks Shubhangi singh Ancient golden mill +91-9999036065 Get BlueMail for Android On 9 Aug 2023, 11:59 pm, at 11:59 pm, Joni Kindwall-Moore <joni@snacktivistfoods.com> wrote:
SO just cleaning, I wonder how it is threshed or separated from the panicle? I have never worked with pearl millet other than buying a bag of it at an import market, so really interested to learn more. It is delicious. I have a number of farmers in my network who grow it, but none of them harvest the seed other than for replanting. They sell the biomass into livestock feed channels. We have had conversations about developing a market path for the seed as all of the domestic pearl millet for human consumption, at least that I have found, is imported. From my understanding, pearl millet has nice yields too although I have not had the time to really explore it. We (colleagues and I) are setting up a processing facility to handle gluten-free, alternative crops like millet, hull-less high-protein oats, and perhaps some other reawakened crops. I would like to start exploring other millets that could be processed in that facility.
On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 10:26 AM Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org> wrote:
Hi Joni,
Pearl millet, like sorghum, doesn't have a hull like the small millets do.
Lost Crops of Africa (Vol. 1)* has this: "Some thresh free from glumes, while others require husking." Various kinds of threshing / husking devices have been developed.
A quick search online came up with lots of webpages on various related topics/
For foxtail, no info, but can machines that dehull proso be used for its smaller grains?
HTH, Don
DO, EL, MI, US NAMA
Notes: * https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/2305/chapter/7
On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 1:12 PM Joni Kindwall-Moore < joni@snacktivistfoods.com> wrote:
Hello everyone, thanks for your continued support and great answers to my questions. Does anyone have experience in dehulling pearl or foxtail millet at scale? thanks
*Joni Kindwall-Moore BSN-RN, BA* Founder, CEO, Innovator, Mother, Nurse, Activist
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Hello Shubhangi, Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I have a quick question for you on the equipment for hulling. Is the hulling equipment abrasion-based? Like a rice huller? If you have a manufacturer/equipment brand and model I would be very grateful. Thank you! Sergio Nunez de Arco
On Aug 9, 2023, at 8:07 PM, Info@ancientgoldenmill.com <info@ancientgoldenmill.com> wrote:
Dear Joni,
Hope everyone is well.
We have a setup in India where we work on farm side as well as in manufacturing side. I'll like to share my knowledge:
a. Major millets like - sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet needs "thresher" on farm level to remove seeds from its pinnacle and remove paper thin layer that holds it to the pinnacle. b. Minor millets like: foxtail, proso, kodo, little, barnyard, browntop, jobstears need - - thresher - destoner - huller - polisher (some need it) - gravity seperator - color seperator
This completes the process of millet becomes edible. If anymore details needed I am happy to share.
I hope this could be usefull.
Thanks Shubhangi singh Ancient golden mill +91-9999036065
Get BlueMail for Android <https://bluemail.me/> On 9 Aug 2023, at 11:59 pm, Joni Kindwall-Moore <joni@snacktivistfoods.com <mailto:joni@snacktivistfoods.com>> wrote:
SO just cleaning, I wonder how it is threshed or separated from the panicle? I have never worked with pearl millet other than buying a bag of it at an import market, so really interested to learn more. It is delicious. I have a number of farmers in my network who grow it, but none of them harvest the seed other than for replanting. They sell the biomass into livestock feed channels. We have had conversations about developing a market path for the seed as all of the domestic pearl millet for human consumption, at least that I have found, is imported. From my understanding, pearl millet has nice yields too although I have not had the time to really explore it. We (colleagues and I) are setting up a processing facility to handle gluten-free, alternative crops like millet, hull-less high-protein oats, and perhaps some other reawakened crops. I would like to start exploring other millets that could be processed in that facility.
On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 10:26 AM Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org <mailto:don@milletsalliance.org>> wrote:
Hi Joni,
Pearl millet, like sorghum, doesn't have a hull like the small millets do.
Lost Crops of Africa (Vol. 1)* has this: "Some thresh free from glumes, while others require husking." Various kinds of threshing / husking devices have been developed.
A quick search online came up with lots of webpages on various related topics/
For foxtail, no info, but can machines that dehull proso be used for its smaller grains?
HTH, Don
DO, EL, MI, US NAMA
Notes: * https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/2305/chapter/7
On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 1:12 PM Joni Kindwall-Moore <joni@snacktivistfoods.com <mailto:joni@snacktivistfoods.com>> wrote:
Hello everyone, thanks for your continued support and great answers to my questions. Does anyone have experience in dehulling pearl or foxtail millet at scale? thanks
Joni Kindwall-Moore BSN-RN, BA Founder, CEO, Innovator, Mother, Nurse, Activist
P: 406-334-1608 www.snacktivistfoods.com <http://www.snacktivistfoods.com/> Scan this QR code to experience the Snacktivist Nation!
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Thank you, Shubhangi, this is very helpful! I appreciate it. On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 11:36 AM Sergio Nunez de Arco <sergio@oldandean.com> wrote:
Hello Shubhangi,
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I have a quick question for you on the equipment for hulling.
Is the hulling equipment abrasion-based? Like a rice huller? If you have a manufacturer/equipment brand and model I would be very grateful.
Thank you!
Sergio Nunez de Arco
On Aug 9, 2023, at 8:07 PM, Info@ancientgoldenmill.com < info@ancientgoldenmill.com> wrote:
Dear Joni,
Hope everyone is well.
We have a setup in India where we work on farm side as well as in manufacturing side. I'll like to share my knowledge:
a. Major millets like - sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet needs "thresher" on farm level to remove seeds from its pinnacle and remove paper thin layer that holds it to the pinnacle. b. Minor millets like: foxtail, proso, kodo, little, barnyard, browntop, jobstears need - - thresher - destoner - huller - polisher (some need it) - gravity seperator - color seperator
This completes the process of millet becomes edible. If anymore details needed I am happy to share.
I hope this could be usefull.
Thanks Shubhangi singh Ancient golden mill +91-9999036065
Get BlueMail for Android <https://bluemail.me/> On 9 Aug 2023, at 11:59 pm, Joni Kindwall-Moore <joni@snacktivistfoods.com> wrote:
SO just cleaning, I wonder how it is threshed or separated from the panicle? I have never worked with pearl millet other than buying a bag of it at an import market, so really interested to learn more. It is delicious. I have a number of farmers in my network who grow it, but none of them harvest the seed other than for replanting. They sell the biomass into livestock feed channels. We have had conversations about developing a market path for the seed as all of the domestic pearl millet for human consumption, at least that I have found, is imported. From my understanding, pearl millet has nice yields too although I have not had the time to really explore it. We (colleagues and I) are setting up a processing facility to handle gluten-free, alternative crops like millet, hull-less high-protein oats, and perhaps some other reawakened crops. I would like to start exploring other millets that could be processed in that facility.
On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 10:26 AM Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org> wrote:
Hi Joni,
Pearl millet, like sorghum, doesn't have a hull like the small millets do.
Lost Crops of Africa (Vol. 1)* has this: "Some thresh free from glumes, while others require husking." Various kinds of threshing / husking devices have been developed.
A quick search online came up with lots of webpages on various related topics/
For foxtail, no info, but can machines that dehull proso be used for its smaller grains?
HTH, Don
DO, EL, MI, US NAMA
Notes: * https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/2305/chapter/7
On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 1:12 PM Joni Kindwall-Moore < joni@snacktivistfoods.com> wrote:
Hello everyone, thanks for your continued support and great answers to my questions. Does anyone have experience in dehulling pearl or foxtail millet at scale? thanks
*Joni Kindwall-Moore BSN-RN, BA* Founder, CEO, Innovator, Mother, Nurse, Activist
*P: 406-334-1608* *www.snacktivistfoods.com <http://www.snacktivistfoods.com/>* *Scan this QR code to experience the Snacktivist Nation! *
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