Learn to grow millet, a fast-growing late-season crop ... Sellers of field seed in the United States talk about Japanese, German, Hungarian, African, common, proso, pearl, browntop, foxtail ...

That includes the Japanese millet Rothermich grows in Missouri. The market for millets is not a large one in the United States, except for its use as songbird seed. However, millets could be used ...

But he also grows something called Japanese millet. (SOUNDBITE OF BAG OPENING) TESFAYE: He pours a bag of the seed on his kitchen table. Oh, they're tiny. LINUS ROTHERMICH: Yeah, actually ...

But in central Missouri, farmer Linus Rothermich disrupts the usual corn and soybean rotation with Japanese millet. He has been growing it since 1993. “Golly, I have to think how far back that is,” he ...