Fun Facts

One dairy cow can produce more than 3,000 gallons of milk in a year. There are about 160,000 dairy cows in Kansas. That's a lot of milk!

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

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

One acre of soybeans can make 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...

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

About four percent of the land in Kansas is part of conservation or wetland reserve programs.

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.

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.

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

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

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.  

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

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...

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

The cotton gin first came to Kansas in 1854 when a Polish immigrant wanted to gin local cotton near Valley Falls.

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.

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

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