Fun Facts

One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

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

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

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

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

Did you know the corn humans eat is different from the corn that cattle eat? Most of the corn people eat is sweet  corn. Cattle and other livestock eat field corn.

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

Drink local with milk! It takes about 48 hours for milk to travel from dairy farms to the grocery store.

Energy experts estimate global ethanol production and use reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 110 million metric tons per year. That’s equivalent to taking more than 20 million vehicles off the road.

Enriched white bread and other enriched grain products are a good source of iron and B vitamins (thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and folic acid), as well as complex carbohydrates.

There are more than 300 licensed dairy herds in Kansas with about 143,000 cows total. In 2015 cows produced about 365 million gallons of milk, making Kansas the 16th largest milk producing state.

There are 7 different breeds of dairy cattle. Farmers choose their breeds based on milk production, size and even personality.

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.

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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.  

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.

Did you know there are 15,000 soybean farms in Kansas? In 2016, Kansas farmers harvested more than 4 million acres of soybeans.

Did you know that one acre of soybeans can produce 82,368 crayons?

Grains can be categorized into food grains (for people) and feed grains (for cattle). Cattle eat feed grains like field corn and grain sorghum. An average of 4 ½ pounds of grain is used to produce a...

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.

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