Fun Facts

The top five agiculture commodities in Kansas are cattle, corn, wheat, soybeans and sorghum.

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

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

One bushel of corn fed to livestock produces 5.6 pounds of retail beef, 13 pounds of retail pork, 19.6 pounds of chicken or 28 pounds of catfish.

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

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

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.

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

From farm to processor to distribution and retail, dairy creates jobs that support the economic well-being of Kansans. The dairy industry contributes $592 million annually to the Kansas economy and...

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...

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.

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

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

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. 

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

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.

For a dessert to officially be considered ice cream, it must contain at least 10 percent milkfat.

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

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.

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