Adding white proso millet to your seed offerings can bring in a variety of smaller birds. In addition, its high protein and fat content makes it a beneficial choice. “It’s a small seed, so your ...

An ancient cereal crop offers market and production potential to growers in semi-arid regions. Proso millet took root in northern China more than 12,000 years ago and ultimately spread westward and ...

Out here on the wide-open prairie at Towner, Colorado, drought-suffering farmer Chris Stum has carved out a unique market. Stum and his family were tired of fighting the lack of rainfall and the dried ...

Learn to grow millet, a fast-growing late-season crop, easily adaptable in the kitchen, and outstrips many more common grains as a nutritional powerhouse. Millet is grown in the United States mostly ...

A grain that millions of people in Asia and India eat every day is almost unheard-of in Iowa, but a researcher at Iowa State University says it has the potential to make Midwestern agriculture more ...

Proso millet, also known as common millet or broomcorn millet, and in Hindi cheena, is a small, drought-resistant grain that has been cultivated for thousands of years, specifically in Africa and Asia ...

Linus Rothermich plays with his dog on the field where he plans on planting this year’s crop of Japanese millet. He grows the crop for seeds that are sold and planted elsewhere to support waterfowl ...

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has declared 2023 the international year of millets, praising the grain’s ability to grow in arid soil with minimal inputs. For many farmers, 2023 ...