Fun Facts

Did you know that one acre of soybeans can produce 82,368 crayons?

Kansas exports more than $4.8 billion in agricultural products per year.

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

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

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

Gluten-free grains have no caloric advantage over grains containing gluten like wheat, barley and rye. All carbohydrates have four calories per gram. Gluten-free foods are often higher in fat and...

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

In Kansas alone, pig farmers raised over 3.2 million pigs in 2015, producing over 600 million pounds of pork!

Farmers in Kansas grow more than 650 million bushels of corn each year. 

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

It takes five to six months for a pig to reach market weight (about 265 pounds). One market hog provides about 160 pounds of pork for the grocery store’s meat case.

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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

Output from Kansas agriculture has a direct economic impact of $22.5 billion per year.

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

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.

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

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.

There are about 60-80 pods on a mature soybean plant. Each pod contains three small soybeans.

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