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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This past fall saw a considerable acreage of proso millet left standing in the field or laying in a windrow. Late planting and a cool growing season with early fall frost caught many fields short of ...

The proso millet genome, with about 920 million base pairs, is nearly twice the size of foxtail millet's, but its 55,000 protein-coding genes fall far short of double the 38,000 found in foxtail ...

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 ...

Italian gluten-free specialist Dr. Schär is investing in new millet varieties with improved nutritional characteristics and better adapted to changing environment, FoodNavigator hears. The Food & ...