EC95-137 Producing and Marketing Proso Millet in the High Plains

Authors

D. D. Baltensperger, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Drew J. Lyon, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
R. Anderson, USDA
Tom Holman, University of Nebraska–LincolnFollow
C. Stymieste, South Dakota State University
J. Shanahan, Colorado State University
Lenis Alton Nelson, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Karen L. DeBoer, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Gary L. Hein, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
J. Krall, University of Wyoming

Date of this Version

1995

Document Type

Article

Comments

© 1995, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska on behalf of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension. All rights reserved.

Abstract

Proso millet, Panicum miliaceum (L.), is a warm season grass capable of producing seed 60 to 90 days after planting. It has been called millet, hog millet, and yellow hog. It has been grown in many countries of the world including China, the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Romania, Turkey, and India.

Historically, proso production in the High Plains has been quite variable, depending on the survival of the winter wheat crop, government programs, and market price.

Proso can be used in several ways. Proso millet grain is used as bird and livestock feed in the United States and for livestock feed and human consumption in other countries of the world.