Fun Facts

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

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

One 60-pound bushel of wheat provides about 42 pounds of white flour, enough for about 70, one-pound loaves of white bread.

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

One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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 Kansas has an official state soil? It's called Harney silt loam and it covers about 4 million acres of land in our state. 

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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