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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
ColoradoBiz Magazine Colorado farmers see vast potential in nutritious dryland crop December 29, 2020 But one superlative flies under the radar in the Centennial State: growing proso millet. Proso millet is a drought-resistant grass that produces a small cereal grain after a 60-day growing season. That makes Colorado perfect for it. Millet thrives on the Eastern Plains. Farmers grew it on 320,000 acres in Colorado – or about 1% of the state’s farmland – in 2019, with a harvest of more than 11 million bushels, or $61 million. Those numbers represent about two-thirds of the total U.S. acr...