Fun Facts

Beef from cows and steers are used in two different ways. Cow meat is used primarily as ground beef for hamburgers and the majority of steer meat is used as steaks.

Sows give birth (called farrowing) to an average of eight to twelve piglets at a time and will raise six to eight litters of piglets in their lifetime.

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

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

In 2018, farmers in Kansas planted 165,000 acres of cotton, which produced about 335,000 bales!

Sorghum can be used to make environmentally-friendly packing peanuts, fencing materials, floral arrangements, brooms and more!

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

A bushel of soybeans weighs 60 pounds and produces 11 pounds of oil and 48 pounds of soybean meal.

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

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

Did you know that in Kansas cows outnumber people 2-to1? There are almost 3 million people and more than 6 million cattle!

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

The journey from the time a calf is conceived to the time beef is consumed takes 24-30 months and thousands of miles—from ranches, farms, feed yards and packing plants to grocery stores and...

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

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

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

Grain sorghum is one of the oldest known grains. Its origins can be traced back to ancient Africa and India.

Farmers in Kansas grow more than 650 million bushels of corn each year. 

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,...