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 ...

Never in human history have so many lived in water-limited environments. Never in human history has water waste been concentrated on such few crops.Transition to drought tolerant millets is not only ...

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 ...

The United States High Plains region often experiences low winter precipitation, impacting its crop productivity. Extensive ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- ForPressRelease) Golden Millets, a leading provider of premium millet products, today announced a new initiative to promote the health benefits of proso millet. Proso millet is a type of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amrita Hazra, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, is on a mission — to introduce people to the benefits of eating millet, which primarily is used in the United ...