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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GENESEE, Idaho — Eric Odberg walked through his millet field on an autumn day. The crop glowed a golden bronze in the late afternoon sun. Odberg had planted the millet in June and would harvest it in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...