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...

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

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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.

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Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

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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. 

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

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

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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.

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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,...

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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