Fun Facts

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...

Wheat flour is a good source of complex carbohydrates and contains protein. Plus, it’s low in fat and sodium.

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.

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

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

Mexico and Japan are our top international corn buyers. They buy 50 percent of U.S. corn exports.

Pig farmers have reduced greenhouse gas emissions on pig farms by 35% per pound of pork by changing how crops are raised, how pigs are fed, and how nutrients are recycled.

Soybean oil is a great source of omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin E.

One Kansas farmer raises enough food to feed about 155 people!

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

Did you know Kansas has an official state soil? It's called Harney silt loam and it covers about 4 million acres of land in our state. 

About two-thirds of the Kansas corn crop is used in-state as livestock feed or in food production.

All the wheat grown in Kansas in a single year would fit in a train stretching from western Kansas to the Atlantic Ocean.

Milk is one of the best sources of calcium. Our bodies absorb 28 percent of the calcium found in milk, but as little as 5 percent of the calcium found in other foods like spinach.

Dairy farmers work with animal nutritionists to create recipes that meet the specific nutritional requirements of their cows. A cow’s diet is a combination of hay, grain, silage and proteins,...

Kansas exports more than $4.8 billion in agricultural products per year.

The average Kansas dairy cow produces about 7 gallons of milk each day. That’s more than 2,544 gallons of milk over the course of a typical year.

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

A common ingredient in fertilizer is phosphate, which comes from ancient sea life. Phosphate is one of many natural ingredients used to keep soil — and plants! — healthy.

The United States grows more soybeans than any other country and six out of every ten rows of soybeans are exported to other countries.

One 60-pound bushel of wheat provides about 42 pounds of white flour, enough for about 70, one-pound loaves of white bread.