Percentage of organic vs conventional proso millet cultivation?

Here's a question that I've had before, but which came to mind again following a brief exchange of emails with Cate Batson Baril of Rodale. They are working with the USDA "Transition to Organic Partnership Program" (TOPP),/1 and their No-TIll Farm Walk series./2 Unfortunately those programs do not seem to involve any of our focus crops (millets) at this time. So I wondered if there were any figures on who grows grain proso how? (Organic vs conventional, no-till, etc.) And then logically the same questions for grain sorghum and grain teff. Anyway, searching online for organic proso production, I didn't come up with any figures. Here, however, is a link to one farm group in eastern Colorado that is organic, and several organic proso consumer products: Organic proso farms: Golden Prairie https://goldenprairie.com/ Food grain vendors: Anthony's Goods https://anthonysgoods.com/products/anthonys-organic-hulled-millet Camas Country https://www.camascountrymill.com/shop/millet-white-proso Grain Place Foods https://grainplacefoods.com/product/organic-hulled-millet-white-proso/ Shiloh Farms https://www.shilohfarms.com/millet-grain-organic/ Sun Organic Farm https://www.sunorganicfarm.com/product/organic-millet-whole.html (unhulled proso) Don Osborn, PhD (East Lansing, MI, US) North American Millets Alliance Notes: 1. https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/organic-certification/topp 2. https://rodaleinstitute.org/events/field-walk-series-reduced-till-organic-co...
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Don Osborn