It is the wild antecedent of the crop foxtail millet.

The inhabitants of Jiahu cultivated foxtail millet and rice.

The culture cultivated foxtail millet.

In Japanese, foxtail millet is called awa (粟).

Finger millet, proso millet, and foxtail millet are also important crop species.

Unlike the foxtail millet, the wild ancestor of the proso millet has not yet been satisfactorily identified.

Setaria (foxtail millets)

Setaria italica (Foxtail millet)

Broomcorn (Panicum miliaceum) and foxtail millet were important crops beginning in the Early Neolithic of China.

Suzuku captured many Donghak food supplies in Nucheon, including "hundreds of sacks of Foxtail millet".

In Korean, a foxtail millet plant is called jo (조), and the grain obtained from this plant is called jopsal (좁쌀).

Foxtail millet arrived in Europe later; carbonized seeds first appear in the second millennium BC in central Europe.

Setaria viridis is closely related to S. italica (Foxtail Millet), which has larger spikelets about 3 mm long and usually smooth, shiny upper lemmas.

Other names for foxtail millet include Italian millet, German millet, Chinese millet, and Hungarian millet.

For example, Crawford and Lee, using AMS dating techniques, directly dated a domesticated foxtail millet (Setaria italica ssp.

Pearl millet is often grown in rotation with sorghum, groundnut, cotton, foxtail millet, finger millet (ragi), castor, and sometimes, in the south India, with rice.

Proso is an annual grass like all other millets, but it is not closely related to pearl millet, foxtail millet, finger millet, or the barnyard millets.

The Foxtail Millet Webworm (Mampava bipunctella) is a species of snout moths, and the type species in the genus Mampava.

Meadow steppes have developed in the lower parts of mountain slopes and are covered with various clovers, daisies, filipendula, meadow-grass and foxtail millet, reaching the height of 60-80 cm.

The crop remains found in this phase included almost similar to the earlier phase, with the addition of three new types of millets, kodon millet, foxtail millet and jowar.

Ogokbap or five-grains rice is a kind of Korean food made of a bowl of steamed rice mixed with grains including barley, foxtail millet, millet and soy beans.

Northern China appears to have been the domestication centre for foxtail millet (Setaria italica) and broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) with evidence of domestication of these species approximately 8000 years ago.

The moth will take advantage of a number of host plants other than corn, including other crops such as bell pepper, cotton, hops, millet, pearl millet, foxtail millet, sugarcane, sorghum, and ginger.

The Classic of Rites compiled by Confucius (traditionally September 28, 551 BCE - 479 BCE) from older sources lists soybeans, wheat, proso millet, foxtail millet and hemp.

The earliest evidence of the cultivation of this grain comes from the Peiligang culture of China, which also cultivated the common millet, but foxtail millet became the predominant grain only with the Yangshao culture.

The main plant host for O. sacchari is sugar cane, but it also been observed on other grasses, including Bambusa arundinacea, Setaria italica, Sorghum arundinaceum, Sorghum halepense and Sorghum vulgare, and an orchid of the genus Dendrobium.