Linus Rothermich plays with his dog on the field where he plans on planting this year’s crop of Japanese millet. He grows the crop for seeds that are sold and planted elsewhere to support ...

The word millet is used to refer to plants in four different families ... Sellers of field seed in the United States talk about Japanese, German, Hungarian, African, common, proso, pearl, browntop ...

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 ...