Thanks, Joni, for raising this issue of lack of facilities for dehulling proso millet in your region. Why is it that the larger operations can't or won't take on dehulling more millet? Limited capacity prioritized for other customers? Contractual limitations? If I recall correctly, you once mentioned that the nearest facilities for dehulling that you'd have access to were further east in the US (Ohio?). Obviously it would be expensive to ship proso around the country for one step in the sequence of processing it. Don DO, EL, MI, US NAMA On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 11:52 AM Joni Kindwall-Moore < joni@snacktivistfoods.com> wrote:

Thanks, Don! We are still without a regional dehulling facility and the big guys don't dehull for emerging brands like Snacktivist, unfortunately, so this is proving to be the biggest barrier for the project and for me personally, as a brand that is building tech and ESG connected "Grain-chains". It is frustrating as we have lots of millet in bins, trucks, and silos, we have buyers for the dehulled millet but nowhere to get it done.

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