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 ...

Field studies in 1978 and 1979 evaluated the effectiveness of single and combination herbicide treatments in processing peas (Pisum sativum L.) and soybeans [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] for the control of ...

Wild-proso millet control in furrow-irrigated corn was evaluated in Colorado and Nebraska in 1986 and 1987. No single herbicide alone controlled wild-proso millet all season. In Colorado, EPTC applied ...

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 ...

In 2013, the United Nations launched a somewhat obscure ancient grain into international prominence by declaring the International Year of Quinoa. Now, a decade later, the United Nations has their ...

When scientists Amrita Hazra and Patricia Bubner arrived in Berkeley, California a few years back to do post-doctoral science at the University of California, they bonded over what they saw as an ...

“I don’t know what millet is, but I like it.” That was the 10-word review my husband gave the crispy millet tater tots from Boulder-based RollinGreens that I had just pulled out of the oven. It’s not ...

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in alternative dairy products, particularly those derived from plant sources. Among these alternatives, millet milk has gained popularity due to its ...