Do not plant more than 1 inch deep. Cover with moist soil. Most planting equipment needs modification for planting rates of 5 lbs per Acre or less. Planting and harvesting methods and equipment are similar to those used in sorghum. Harvest seed to be used for planting before a killing frost.
Little information is available on fertilizer requirements and response.
Experiments in the 1960 to 1970 time period in Nebraska and the Central Great Plains Research Stations suggest that proso may respond to fertilization when wheat and barley respond. In other tests, dry matter yields increased with adequate moisture, but grain yields did not when 30 to 50 lbs of nitrogen were added. Economic fertilizer responses are expected to occur at an increasing rate as yields improve. It is suggested that 20 to 50 pounds of nitrogen be added under dryland conditions. With added irrigation, nitrogen application rates of 100 lbs per acre may be acceptable for forage production.