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Interested in Proso Millet in the Northwest and Northern Great Plains? Follow what is happening at CIVC Montana's Belgrade facility! We will be bringing you some of these new Proso Millet Varieties. #prosomillet #millets #USDA #OMDG #organicmillet #organic Snacktivist
Numerous varieties of #prosomillet are being evaluated by researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Colorado State University in a joint effort. An update entitled "𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐨 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫" is presented by Amanda Easterly (Research Asst. Prof. at UNL) and Sally Jones-Diamond (Dir., Crops Testing Prog., CSU) on UNL's Cropwatch site (6 Nov. 2024) https://lnkd.in/gVgFqq2V "Together with CSU Crops Testing, the UNL Crops Testing Team just wrapped up its second year of cooperative variety testing, aimed at providing growers and breeders with multi-location and multi-year yield and quality estimates. In this initiative, proso millet varieties that have been in use for decades, such as Earlybird and Huntsman, are tested against newer commercially available varieties such as Plateau and DLG 240. Also included are experimental varieties developed by UNL Alternative Crops Breeder [Prof.] Dipak Santra and the company Dryland Genetics, whose breeder Santosh Rajput, PhD. is a UNL graduate." (The image below of a test plot of proso is from the article cited above.) #millets