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Millet Research Directory

Who is working on millet — and where the work lives. The millet counterpart to our sorghum directory: institutions, researchers, active projects, funders, industry players, organizations, and literature, mapped with the same rules — brief, factual, dated entries, every one linking to a primary source.

Millet occupies the opposite position from sorghum: commercially, millet malt is the working base of much modern US gluten-free craft brewing — produced, sold, and brewed on today — while its published brewing science is thinner than sorghum's decades-deep academic corpus. This directory maps that inverted landscape honestly: a strong commercial layer, a concentrated research layer, and the gaps between them.

How to read it: the same seven categories as the sorghum directory, with the same rules. Entries are brief, factual, dated, and linked to primary sources. Descriptions are not endorsements.

Coverage is US-centered by design — this site works in the American supply chain — with international anchors included where the science is foundational.

Directory established 2026-08-24 · first verification pass 2026-08-24.

Key topics — find entries by subject, across every category

Malting & brewing process — Penn State · TU Munich–Weihenstephan · Zarnkow's proso malting corpus · University College Cork · the millet mashing study · the unmalted-millet study · the gluten-free brewing review under Literature.

Flavor & fermentation science — University of Florida · Thompson-Witrick · the millet-beer volatiles study.

Breeding & varieties — University of Nebraska–Lincoln · Santra · the proso variety releases · Colorado State's trials · ARS Tifton · University of Georgia · Dryland Genetics · SMIL · ICRISAT · IIMR.

Supply chain & demand — the dedicated gluten-free malthouses · the breweries brewing on millet malt · Colorado's growers · the verification-first sourcing pages under Industry.

Topics are indexed once they have enough entries to be worth indexing — more join as the directory grows.

1. Institutions — federal labs, universities, and international centers doing millet work

— Federal laboratories —

USDA-ARS Crop Genetics and Breeding Research Unit — Tifton, Georgia. The federal pearl millet breeding program: forage and grain hybrids, including grain-market development work that produced the TifGrain hybrid released cooperatively with the University of Georgia. Unit page · Verified 2026-08-24

— US universities —

Penn State University. The central US program for millet brewing science: peer-reviewed work on mashing protocol and fermentable sugar formation from millet in gluten-free brewing — process research this site's millet pages already cite — within a funded gluten-free brewing research program. The millet mashing study · modified brewing procedure for GF malts · Verified 2026-08-24

University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Panhandle Research and Extension Center). Home of the nation's only proso millet breeding program — proso being the millet species US gluten-free maltsters actually malt. The program has released commercial varieties (Horizon, Earlybird, Huntsman, Plateau, Sunrise, Dawn), built the first proso genetic map, and runs annual variety trials. Program overview · variety trials · Verified 2026-08-24

University of Florida. Fermented-beverage flavor science: the published investigation of millet-based beer fermentation and its volatile compounds — and the same lab has published parallel volatiles work on sorghum beer, making it the one US flavor-science group spanning both gluten-free base grains. The millet-beer volatiles study · Verified 2026-08-24

Purdue University. Pearl millet food and nutrition science — the Whistler Center's carbohydrate research includes peer-reviewed work on pearl millet foods, satiety, and glycemic response. Pearl millet nutrition study · Verified 2026-08-24

University of Georgia. The pearl millet grain program at Tifton — co-developer, with USDA-ARS, of grain pearl millet hybrids, with published grower guidance for pearl millet as a grain crop. Pearl Millet for Grain · Verified 2026-08-24

Kansas State University. Home base of the international Sorghum and Millet Innovation Lab — millet is in the lab's name and mandate — with its own pearl millet breeding history (a hybrid-parent program at the Hays research center) and a current sorghum-and-millet breeding position in agronomy. SMIL · K-State pearl millet breeding · Verified 2026-08-24

South Dakota State University. The third leg of the proso High Plains: millet variety trials at the West River research operations, with annually published results. Proso trial results · Verified 2026-08-24

University of California, Davis. The malting and brewing science program whose review of quality variation in malting and brewing grains covers millet alongside the other alternative grains. The review · Verified 2026-08-24

Colorado State University. Variety testing for the nation's leading millet state: the Crops Testing Program runs proso millet trials — including uniform dryland trials conducted jointly with UNL since 2023 at Akron, Colorado and Sidney, Nebraska — with grower field days across eastern Colorado. CSU proso millet testing · Verified 2026-08-24

— International centers —

Technical University of Munich — Weihenstephan, Germany. The international home of proso millet malting science: the research center whose optimization studies — malting conditions, 100% proso mashing, variety effects on malt quality — are the field's foundational process literature for the species US maltsters run. The proso malting-and-brewing review · Verified 2026-08-24

University College Cork — Ireland. The gluten-free cereals authority: one of the world's most-cited food science programs, with a malting-and-brewing group whose gluten-free cereals corpus spans millet, sorghum, and buckwheat. Cereal and Beverage Science group · Verified 2026-08-24

ICAR — Indian Institute of Millets Research, Hyderabad. India's national millets institute: crop improvement across pearl, finger, foxtail, proso, and the small millets (plus sorghum), and the nodal institute behind India's millet development programs. IIMR · Verified 2026-08-24

ICRISAT — International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. The global center for pearl and finger millet improvement and germplasm, across the crops' home geographies. ICRISAT · Verified 2026-08-24

2. Contributors — the researchers and breeders behind the work

Cockburn, Elias & Hopfer — the Penn State gluten-free brewing research group; for millet specifically, the mashing-protocol and fermentable-sugar work is the field's key US process study. The millet mashing study · Verified 2026-08-24

Dipak Santra — alternative crops breeding specialist, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Panhandle REC. Leads the nation's only proso millet breeding program. Faculty page · Verified 2026-08-24

Katherine Thompson-Witrick — University of Florida, Food Science and Human Nutrition. Fermented-beverage flavor chemistry; first author of the millet-beer volatiles study, with parallel published work on sorghum beer volatiles — the flavor thread connecting both grain directories. The millet study · Verified 2026-08-24

Bruce Hamaker — Purdue University, Whistler Center. Pearl millet food and nutritional properties, alongside his sorghum digestibility program — one carbohydrate lab spanning both grains. Pearl millet nutrition study · Verified 2026-08-24

Glen Fox — malting and brewing science, UC Davis. His alternative-grains quality review is anchor literature for millet as much as for sorghum. Profile · the review · Verified 2026-08-24

Martin Zarnkow — Technical University of Munich, Weihenstephan. The proso millet malting researcher: authored the optimization studies that put proso malting on a laboratory footing — steeping, germination, mashing, and variety effects. Proso malting optimization (J. Inst. Brewing 2007) · Verified 2026-08-24

Elke Arendt — University College Cork. Among the world's most-cited cereal scientists; her gluten-free foods and beverages program is the academic backbone of gluten-free malting and brewing broadly, millet included. UCC profile · Verified 2026-08-24

Wayne Hanna — University of Georgia, Tifton. Five decades of pearl millet breeding — three of them at USDA-ARS Tifton in cooperation with UGA, then as UGA professor — including the widely grown Tifleaf forage cultivars and the grain-market development work. UGA profile · Verified 2026-08-24

Timothy Dalton — Kansas State University, agricultural economics. Director and principal investigator of the Sorghum and Millet Innovation Lab — the economics-and-development lens on both grains. SMIL management team · Verified 2026-08-24

Shashi Kumar Gupta — ICRISAT. Principal Scientist leading the pearl millet breeding program at the global center — parental line development behind hybrids grown across the crop's home geographies. ICRISAT profile · Verified 2026-08-24

James Schnable — University of Nebraska–Lincoln, quantitative genetics. Led the sequencing of more than 90% of the proso millet genome and co-founded Dryland Genetics to breed proso with modern statistical tools. The genome sequencing · Verified 2026-08-24

Patrick Schnable — Iowa State University, plant genetics. Co-founder of Dryland Genetics with his son James — two land-grant genetics programs behind one commercial proso breeding company. Dryland Genetics team · Verified 2026-08-24

Devin Rose — University of Nebraska–Lincoln, food science and agronomy; founding member of the Nebraska Food for Health Center. Co-author of the proso fermentation work under Literature — the food-science-and-fermentation side of the UNL millet program. Faculty page · Verified 2026-08-24

— Industry contributors —

Jennifer Soles — founder of Grouse Malt House, the dedicated gluten-free malthouse whose millet malts much of US gluten-free craft brewing runs on. The founding story, as reported · Verified 2026-08-24

Karen Hertz — founder of Holidaily Brewing, Colorado's dedicated gluten-free brewery — the demand half of the state's millet grain-to-glass chain. The founding story, as reported · Verified 2026-08-24

3. Projects & Grants — funded work in flight right now

What qualifies: work that is currently funded or actively producing output, sits at the intersection of millet and malting, brewing, or food-grade quality, and has a public record.

Penn State gluten-free brewing program. The funded program whose millet mashing and gluten-free malt process research is cited on this site's millet pages. Beverages 2021 · the millet mashing study · Verified 2026-08-24

UNL proso millet breeding. The active variety-development pipeline behind US proso supply — new releases, a genetic map, and modern breeding tools. Program overview · Verified 2026-08-24

ARS Tifton pearl millet breeding. The ongoing federal pearl millet program — forage and grain hybrid development in the Southeast. Unit page · Verified 2026-08-24

Sorghum and Millet Innovation Lab (SMIL). International program spanning both grains — millet improvement is half its mandate. USAID-funded ($13.7M founding award plus a $14M extension), working across pearl millet breeding and commodity chains in semi-arid Africa from its K-State home base. SMIL · the founding award · Verified 2026-08-24

HarvestPlus × ICRISAT iron pearl millet. The biofortification partnership breeding and releasing high-iron pearl millet — eleven varieties and hybrids released across India and Niger since the first in 2014, now scaling through the Sahel. Iron pearl millet · Verified 2026-08-24

ICRISAT × ICAR three-way pearl millet hybrid. The release of the world's first three-way pearl millet hybrid — a breeding-architecture milestone from the global center and India's national system together. The announcement · Verified 2026-08-24

The proso millet genome and genomic tools. UNL-led sequencing of more than 90% of the proso genome, plus SNP-marker development — the genomics that turned proso breeding from phenotype selection into modern statistical breeding. Genome announcement · SNP discovery study · Verified 2026-08-24

UNL proso sustainability experiment. Active field comparison of greenhouse-gas emissions between proso millet and corn — building the climate case for the crop. Millets for a sustainable future · Verified 2026-08-24

CSU × UNL uniform dryland variety trials. The two-state joint trial program (Akron, CO and Sidney, NE) running since 2023 — shared performance data across the millet High Plains. CSU's account · Verified 2026-08-24

AICRP on Pearl Millet — India's coordinated network. The All India Coordinated Research Project on pearl millet, run through the national millets institute — the world's largest coordinated millet research apparatus. IIMR · Verified 2026-08-24

4. Funders & Programs — who pays for millet research (described, never endorsed)

What qualifies: a funder whose money traceably appears in millet work documented in this directory, or a standing program whose scope covers the millet-to-brewing chain.

— Federal —

USDA NIFA. The federal agency funding competitive agricultural research, including the gluten-free brewing research family — and, through its Hatch capacity program, the documented funding line behind UNL's proso millet breeding work. NIFA · Verified 2026-08-24

USAID — Feed the Future. The named funder of the Sorghum and Millet Innovation Lab: a $13.7M competitive award establishing the lab at K-State, extended with a further $14M — the largest documented millet research investment in this directory. The award · Verified 2026-08-24

— State programs —

Pennsylvania Malt and Brewed Beverage Industry Promotion Program. The state program funding malt and brewed beverage research in the same state whose university produces the millet brewing science above. Program page · Verified 2026-08-24

— International —

ICAR — Indian Council of Agricultural Research. India's national agricultural research funder: runs the Indian Institute of Millets Research and the coordinated pearl millet network listed above. IIMR · Verified 2026-08-24

HarvestPlus (CGIAR). The global biofortification program whose money and partnership traceably appear in the iron pearl millet releases listed under Projects. HarvestPlus · Verified 2026-08-24

FAO — Food and Agriculture Organization. Lead agency of the International Year of Millets 2023 — the standing international program platform for millet market development. FAO millets · Verified 2026-08-24

A structural difference from sorghum: we know of no national millet checkoff — sorghum's producer-funded research board has no millet equivalent — so millet research leans more heavily on federal and state programs, and the grower voice runs through associations rather than a checkoff. That absence shapes this whole page.

5. Industry & Supply Chain — the commercial layer, where millet leads every other gluten-free grain

This is where millet's map inverts sorghum's: commercial gluten-free millet malt exists today — grown at scale on the High Plains, malted at dedicated facilities, and brewed into award-winning beer by dedicated gluten-free breweries. The chain runs end to end, and every link below is documented.

— The grain —

Colorado grows most of America's millet. Roughly half of US production, with Nebraska and South Dakota completing the High Plains core — proso millet thriving as a low-water rotation crop. Ag Marketing Resource Center profile · Verified 2026-08-24

Dryland Genetics. Private company breeding proso millet varieties for High Plains production — founded by genetics professors at UNL and Iowa State, applying the sequenced proso genome to commercial variety development. Dryland Genetics on proso production · team · Verified 2026-08-24

— The malt —

Grouse Malt House — Wellington, Colorado. Millet malts as the primary line (plus buckwheat and rice), stating exclusively gluten-free production — a dedicated-facility claim — sourcing from the local millet supply above. Grouse · products · our verification-first worked example · Verified 2026-08-24

Nexus Ingredient — MillMalt. The gluten-free malt-extract line whose millet-derived syrup serves food manufacturing; its brewing syrup is sorghum-based (listed on the sorghum directory) — one extract brand spanning both grains. MillMalt for gluten-free applications · Verified 2026-08-24

Gluten Free Home Brewing. The retail supply channel: millet malts and gluten-free brewing supplies sold at homebrew scale. Store · Verified 2026-08-24

— The breweries (the demand proof) —

Ghostfish Brewing Company — Seattle, Washington. The largest dedicated gluten-free brewery in North America, brewing traditional styles on malted millet, buckwheat, and rice; distributes in 21 states. Ghostfish · featured by their maltster · Verified 2026-08-24

Holidaily Brewing Company — Golden, Colorado. Colorado's dedicated gluten-free brewing facility, brewing on Grouse millet and buckwheat malts — a fully in-state grain-to-glass chain. Holidaily coverage · featured by their maltster · Verified 2026-08-24

ALT Brew — Madison, Wisconsin. Dedicated gluten-free brewery whose roasted-millet Copper Ale has medaled at the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup. ALT Brew · Verified 2026-08-24

Glutenberg — Montreal, Canada. The largest gluten-free craft brand in North America by reach, brewing across styles on millet, buckwheat, and quinoa. Glutenberg profile · Verified 2026-08-24

Evasion Brewing — McMinnville, Oregon. Dedicated gluten-free all-grain brewery with malted millet and rice as primary ingredients. Evasion · Verified 2026-08-24

Buck Wild Brewing — Oakland, California. Dedicated gluten-free brewery and taproom, brewing on buckwheat, rice, and millet. Reviewed lineup · Verified 2026-08-24

Burning Brothers Brewing — St. Paul, Minnesota. Dedicated gluten-free brewery whose grists span sorghum, malted millet, and malted rice — one brewhouse running all three of this directory family's grains. Coverage · Verified 2026-08-24

Lakefront Brewery — New Grist — Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The founding-era gluten-free beer, still in year-round production, carries malted millet in its grist alongside sorghum and rice. New Grist · Verified 2026-08-24

— The services layer —

BevSource. The beverage development and sourcing firm that takes gluten-free beer projects from concept to production — a major player in how new gluten-free brands actually get made. Their own published analysis credits large-scale millet malting with enabling the modern all-grain era: early gluten-free beer was brewed on sorghum extract because no gluten-free malt supply existed, and when malted millet arrived at scale, the market moved to it — which is why today's production runs on millet and rice while sorghum malt remains the unbuilt supply chain. BevSource on gluten-free beer · our page on working with them · Verified 2026-08-24

— Sourcing and verification, on this site's working pages —

More supplier and brewery entries are added as they are verified.

6. Organizations & Events — trade bodies, standards organizations, and the field's calendar

High Plains Millet Association. The grower organization for US proso millet — the closest thing millet has to a producer voice, in the absence of a checkoff. HPMA · Verified 2026-08-24

Sorghum United. The international NGO's mandate explicitly covers sorghum and adjacent grains — the millets included — making it one of the few organizations promoting this grain family as a family. Sorghum United · Verified 2026-08-24

Craft Maltsters Guild. The trade organization of the craft malting movement — the world the dedicated gluten-free malthouses operate in. Runs Craft Malt Month each September. Guild · Verified 2026-08-24

American Society of Brewing Chemists. The North American body for brewing analytical methods — the framework any US millet malt specification would be written against. ASBC · Verified 2026-08-24

Brewers Association. The US craft brewing trade association; its Great American Beer Festival judges dedicated gluten-free categories — where the millet-based breweries above have medaled. Brewers Association · competitions with gluten-free categories, on this site · Verified 2026-08-24

— The field's calendar —

International Year of Millets 2023. The UN General Assembly declared 2023 the International Year of Millets, with FAO as lead agency — the largest policy spotlight the crop family has ever had, and the reference point millet market-development arguments now build on. It followed the precedent of rice's 2004 year, the UN's first for a single crop. Historic; its materials remain the field's best advocacy corpus. FAO — IYM 2023 · Verified 2026-08-24

ICRISAT Pearl Millet Scientists' Field Day. The global breeding program's recurring gathering of pearl millet researchers and partners. ICRISAT pressroom · Verified 2026-08-24

Craft Malt Month. The Guild's September spotlight on regional malting — the annual moment the craft-malt world, gluten-free malthouses included, is most visible. Guild · Verified 2026-08-24

For celiac and gluten-free community organizations, see Celiac organizations.

7. Literature & Datasets — the anchor works, the methods, and the published data

— Anchor works —

  • Ledley, Elias & Cockburn — impact of mashing protocol on fermentable sugars from millet — the key US millet brewing process study; supports process sensitivity, never a universal recipe. Penn State record
  • Zarnkow et al. — the proso malting-and-brewing corpus — the foundational process literature for the species US maltsters run: malting-condition optimization (J. Inst. Brewing 2007) · 100% proso mashing optimization (J. Inst. Brewing 2010) · variety effects on malting quality (ASBC Journal 2010) · the sustainability review (open PDF)
  • Fox — Variation in Quality of Grains Used in Malting and Brewing — the alternative-grains quality review; millet is inside its scope. Open copy
  • Thompson-Witrick et al. — millet-based beer fermentation and the volatile compounds formed — peer-reviewed flavor data on millet beer, scarce territory. Beverages 2026
  • Gluten-free beer with unmalted millet — the unmalted-route contrast study, cited on our millet pages. Springer
  • Gluten-Free Brewing: Issues and Perspectives — the broad peer-reviewed context review. MDPI Fermentation
  • Belihu et al. — germination and kilning parameters in finger millet malting for industrial brewing — malting process parameters at industrial framing. Label: finger millet (Eleusine coracana), a different species from the proso millet US maltsters run. Scientific Reports 2025
  • Pelembe, Dewar & Taylor — the pearl millet malting foundations — malting conditions and germination effects on pearl millet malt quality, including lager-brewing potential, from the sorghum canon's own central author. J. Inst. Brewing 2002 and its 2004 companion study. Label: pearl millet — the African and Indian staple species, not US proso.
  • Embashu & colleagues — Namibian opaque beer, reviewed — the peer-reviewed treatment of the traditional millet-and-sorghum brewing family. J. Inst. Brewing 2019
  • Hamaker's group — pearl millet foods, satiety, and glycemic response — the nutrition-science thread behind millet's functional-food case. British J. Nutrition
  • UGA — Pearl Millet for Grain — the grower-facing agronomy bulletin for pearl millet as a grain crop. UGA CAES
  • Rose & Santra — proso millet fermentation for fuel ethanol — fermentation performance data on the US malting species. Label: fuel-ethanol framing; relevant here for what it shows about proso fermentability, not as brewing guidance. UNL Digital Commons

— Where this site's millet citations live —

— Public datasets —

  • USDA National Plant Germplasm System — millet collections. The federal genebank's pearl millet collection (about 1,300 accessions from 31 countries, maintained at Griffin, Georgia) plus proso holdings, with morphology and trait descriptors searchable online via GRIN. GRIN · Verified 2026-08-24
  • UNL proso millet variety trials. Annual published variety-trial results for the US malting species — performance data, updated yearly. Trial results · Verified 2026-08-24
  • CSU Crops Testing — proso millet trials. Colorado's published variety-trial data, run jointly with UNL as uniform dryland trials since 2023. CSU trials · Verified 2026-08-24
  • The proso millet genome and SNP resources. The UNL-led genome sequence (more than 90% coverage) and published SNP-marker data — the species' foundational genomic dataset. Genome · SNP study · Verified 2026-08-24
  • USDA NASS millet statistics. Federal production, acreage, and yield statistics for US millet — the market-scale numbers behind every supply claim on this page. NASS · proso market profile · Verified 2026-08-24
  • SDSU proso millet trial results. South Dakota's published variety trials — the third producing state's performance data. Trial results · Verified 2026-08-24

This site's own published datasets (the research library) are currently sorghum; a public millet malting dataset is an open gap — see Research gaps below.

How the field connects — documented links between the entries above

Every connection below is documented — no inferred relationships, no speculation.

— Research to research —

  • ARS Tifton ↔ University of Georgia — the grain pearl millet hybrid line was developed and released cooperatively by both — a connection embodied in breeder Wayne Hanna's five-decade career across the two institutions. UGA's account
  • K-State ↔ millet, via SMIL — the international lab's mandate spans sorghum and millet from one home base. SMIL
  • One flavor lab, two grains — the University of Florida group has published volatiles studies on both millet beer and sorghum beer — the same lens across both directories. Millet study
  • One carbohydrate lab, two grains — Purdue's Whistler Center spans sorghum digestibility and pearl millet food properties.
  • One review, three directories — Fox's alternative-grains quality review anchors the literature of this directory, the sorghum directory, and the rice directory alike.
  • Taylor spans the grains — the central author of the sorghum brewing canon also wrote the pearl millet malting foundations: the same Pretoria program anchoring the sorghum directory appears in this page's literature. The pearl millet study
  • The High Plains trio, complete — all three major proso-producing states carry listed programs: Colorado (CSU trials, Grouse's supply), Nebraska (UNL's breeding program), South Dakota (SDSU's trials) — the entire US supply region is mapped. SDSU trials
  • CSU ↔ UNL — the two land-grants of the millet High Plains run uniform dryland proso variety trials jointly across the two states. CSU's account
  • UNL ↔ Iowa State ↔ Dryland Genetics — two genetics professors (father and son) at the two universities co-founded the commercial proso breeding company, carrying the sequenced genome into variety development. Dryland's account
  • UNL internal: breeding ↔ food science — the proso fermentation study was co-authored across the breeding program and the food science department. The study
  • ICRISAT ↔ HarvestPlus — the global breeding center and the CGIAR biofortification program jointly release iron pearl millet. The partnership
  • ICRISAT ↔ ICAR — the global center and India's national system co-released the world's first three-way pearl millet hybrid. The announcement

— Field to industry —

  • Colorado's grain ↔ Colorado's malt ↔ Colorado's beer — the nation's leading millet-producing state also hosts the dedicated gluten-free malthouse that sources locally and the dedicated brewery that brews on it — a complete documented in-state chain. The chain, as reported
  • Grouse ↔ its breweries — the maltster's own site documents Ghostfish and Holidaily as featured customers. Ghostfish feature · Holidaily feature
  • One brewhouse, three grains — Burning Brothers' grists span sorghum, malted millet, and malted rice; Lakefront's New Grist carries all three in one beer — single operations living across every page of this directory family. New Grist
  • BevSource ↔ Grouse — the beverage-development firm's own analysis names the maltster's emergence as the turning point from the early sorghum-extract era to today's all-grain millet brewing. BevSource's analysis
  • UNL's varieties ↔ the commercial supply — the proso varieties bred at the Panhandle REC are released for the same High Plains production that feeds the malting world. Variety trials

— Field to this site —

  • Penn State ↔ our millet pages — the millet mashing study is already cited across our millet guidance — a citation relationship that existed before this directory did.
  • Pennsylvania's program ↔ Penn State — the state's malt and brewed beverage program funds research in the same state university system producing the millet brewing science above. The program
Research gaps — where the field's coverage runs out

These are the gaps we have found and documented — if we have missed something, tell us:

  • Millet's gap is the mirror of sorghum's. Commercial gluten-free millet malt is produced at scale today — but on a thinner published brewing-science base than sorghum's decades-deep corpus. Production runs ahead of the public literature.
  • The same information layer is missing. As with sorghum, we have found no widely used per-lot reporting practice for millet malt buyers — the problem this site's Lot Reporting Standard exists to solve, across gluten-free grains.
  • No national millet checkoff that we know of — millet research has no producer-funded board comparable to sorghum's, thinning its dedicated funding channels; the grower voice runs through associations instead.
  • No public millet malting dataset that we have found. Agronomic and genebank data exist — the federal germplasm collections and UNL's variety trials, both listed under Literature — but we have found no public dataset of millet malting quality: the millet equivalent of the Madison screening does not exist to our knowledge. An open, fundable gap, made sharper by the fact that millet is the grain US gluten-free brewing actually runs on.

What would close these gaps, in detail: Open research problems · Research asks.

Run a millet program, lab, project, or company we should list? Entries are added on merit once verified — tell us about it.

Entries are added as they are verified, never to pad the count. A listing here is a map reference, not a citation: this directory deliberately maps the whole millet research world — a wider circle than the specific evidence our brewing guidance is built on, which every guidance page cites directly. Corrections welcome — see Contact.