Fun Facts

Cotton bolls, which are the puffs of white produced by cotton plants, are technically fruit.

Fertilizer contains a lot of helpful nutrients, thanks to Mother Nature! Potash, which is salt from ancient evaporated oceans, is used in fertilizer to feed our soil.

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

There are about 60-80 pods on a mature soybean plant. Each pod contains three small soybeans.

Looking for a gluten-free grain? Try sorghum! It's gluten-free and packed with protein, iron, vitamin B-6, niacin, magnesium and phosphorus.  

Did you know corn tortillas can differ in color based on the type of corn used? Some are white and others are yellow.

Kansas grows winter wheat that is planted and sprouts in the fall, becomes dormant in the winter, grows again in the spring and is harvested in early summer.

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.

The largest market for field corn is to provide feed for animals like cattle, pigs, chicken, and even catfish. 

About a third of a steer is used for beef production. The rest of the animal is used to make by-products found in medicines, cosmetics, detergents, insulation, and much more!

Cattle are great recyclers. They convert natural resources that would otherwise be wasted into beef, an edible protein containing 10 essential nutrients such as zinc, iron and B vitamins.  

Did you know that Americans consume about 132 pounds of wheat flour per person each year?

Did you know cotton is becoming a big crop in Kansas? Last year, farmers here produced over 164 million pounds of cotton! 

98 percent of all corn farms are family-run farms.

There are four main types of sorghum: grain, forage, biomass and sweet. Their most popular uses are: for food (grain sorghum), as livestock feed (forage sorghum), to produce bioenergy (biomass...

One bale of cotton can make 4,312 mid-calf socks.

In addition to meat, pigs provide us with lots of other products, including valves for human heart surgery, suede for shoes and clothing, and gelatin for many food and non-food uses.

The majority of oil used for cooking in our country is U.S.-grown 100% soybean oil!

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

Within an hour of birth calves are up and ready to nurse. A baby calf will drink a gallon of milk a day.

About four percent of the land in Kansas is part of conservation or wetland reserve programs.