Feb. 24 meeting hopes to establish millet organization

    A meeting to discuss, establish and organize a grower organization that can support millet as a commercial crop in Colorado is set for Friday, Feb. 24, at 9:30 a.m. at the Central Plains Research Station, 40335 County Road GG, Akron.
    Topics that will be discussed are cultivar development, agronomic research, crop insurance needs and marketing support.
    Proso millet, Panicum miliaceum (L.), is a warm-season grass that produces seed 60 to 90 days after planting. Proso millet is planted in the Great Plains of the United States as well as many other countries around the world, including China, India, Turkey, Romania and Afghanistan as well as the former Soviet Union.
    In recent years in Colorado, the acres planted to proso have been between 250,000 and 300,000 and typically produce more than half of the total U.S. production.
 

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