Editing Proso millet (section)

=== Cultivation ===

Proso millet is a relatively low-demanding crop, and diseases are not known; consequently, it is often used in organic farming systems in Europe. In the United States, it is often used as an intercrop. Thus, proso millet can help to avoid a summer fallow, and continuous crop rotation can be achieved. Its superficial root system and its resistance to atrazine residue make proso millet a good intercrop between two water- and [[pesticide]]-demanding crops. The stubbles of the last crop, by allowing more heat into the soil, result in a faster and earlier millet growth. While millet occupies the ground, because of its superficial root system, the soil can replenish its water content for the next crop. Later crops, for example, a winter wheat, can in turn benefit from the millet stubble, which act as snow accumulators.<ref name="UNebraskaL">[http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/live/ec137/build/ec137.pdf Producing and marketing proso millet in the great plains], U. Nebraska-Lincoln Extension</ref> ''P. miliaceum'' is commonly classified into five [[race (biology)|race]]s, ''miliaceum'', ''patentissimum'', ''contractum'', ''compactum'', and ''ovatum''.<ref name = "Diversity-Resources">{{ Cite journal | volume = 6 | year = 2015 | first2 = Manish | first1 = Travis | last2 = Raizada | last1 = Goron | journal = Frontiers in Plant Science | title = Genetic diversity and genomic resources available for the small millet crops to accelerate a New Green Revolution | page = 157 | doi = 10.3389/fpls.2015.00157 | pmid = 25852710 | pmc = 4371761 | doi-access = free }}</ref>