Fun Facts

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 Kansas farmer raises enough food to feed about 155 people!

In pre-refrigeration days, hogs were harvested in the fall and cured for six to seven months, just in time for Easter dinner. That’s how ham came to be the traditional Easter favorite.

Looking for a gluten-free grain? Try sorghum! It's gluten-free and packed with protein, iron, vitamin B-6, niacin, magnesium and phosphorus.  

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 Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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

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

About a third of a steer is used for beef production. The rest of the animal is used to make by-products found in medicines, cosmetics, detergents, insulation, and much more!

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

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

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.

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

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.  

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.

Fertilizer contains a lot of helpful nutrients, thanks to Mother Nature! Potash, which is salt from ancient evaporated oceans, is used in fertilizer to feed our soil.

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.

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...

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

Kansas grows winter wheat that is planted and sprouts in the fall, becomes dormant in the winter, grows again in the spring and is harvested in early summer.

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