One cowhide can produce enough leather to make 20 footballs, 18 soccer balls, 18 volleyballs or 12 basketballs.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

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

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

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

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Grain sorghum is one of the oldest known grains. Its origins can be traced back to ancient Africa and India.

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

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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. 

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.  

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About one-third of the milk produced in the U.S. is used for making cheese.

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

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Did you know there are 15,000 soybean farms in Kansas? In 2016, Kansas farmers harvested more than 4 million acres of soybeans.

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

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