Fun Facts

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

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

Gluten is what helps bread expand while the dough rises, and hold its shape while baking and after it cools. It’s also what makes bread chewy.

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

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

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.

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

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

Corn is produced on every continent of the world with the exception of Antarctica. 

One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

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.

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

The largest market for field corn is to provide feed for animals like cattle, pigs, chicken, and even catfish. 

There are more than 29 cuts of beef that meet government guidelines for lean, including tenderloin, T-bone steak and extra lean ground beef.

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

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

Did you know Kansas farmers grow about 330 million bushels of wheat each year? That’s enough to make 23 billion loaves of bread!

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

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.

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.