Millets Webinar updates: Video of 11th, info on 12th, & more

Dear all, 1) The recording of our 11th Millets Webinar (15 Nov. 2023), which included presentations on uses of millets in animal farming, cover cropping, and other non-food uses, from Dr. Rob Myer and Gary WIetgrefe, is available at https://youtu.be/yCQ5shFxAB8 . This webinar covered various non-food uses of several millets, with focus on North America, and offered some perspectives on the degree to which these collectively appear to be grown on a much larger area, at least in the US, than the usual statistics indicate. 2) Our 12th Millets Webinar, on Wed. 20 December at 5 pm EST, will consider millets in systems. After a series of topic-specific Webinars from Feb. thru Nov., this one will zoom out a bit to look at millets in broader contexts. We are again fortunate to have two distinguished presenters, who will be: Joanna Kane-Potaka, an executive level strategic marketing expert focused on driving demand for smarter foods, who is currently serving as Deputy Director-General of IRRI; and Dr. Kiruba Krishnaswamy, Asst. Professor at the Univ. of Missouri, with joint appt. in the Colleges of Engineering, and of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, and head of the FEAST Lab. 3) While December's Millets Webinar will conclude the series during this International Year of Millets (IYM), we are planning for a January 2024 Webinar with a retrospective on the IYM, and a look forward for NAMA (and partners) and the future of millets in North America. Details forthcoming. 4) Also in January, we are working to have the first of the "second season" of Millets Webinars, with a new thematic approach and format for 2024. A more complete discussion of that and the strategic vision of which it is a part, is also forthcoming. 5) Possible French and Spanish webinars on millets are still very much on the agenda (for 2024), but no more updates on these are planned unless and until there is something definite to announce. Don Osborn, PhD (East Lansing, MI, US) North American Millets Alliance - co-founder don at milletsalliance.com
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