Fun Facts

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

One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.

In 2015 Kansas had 6.3 million cattle on ranches and in feedyards (third highest in the nation). That's a little over twice the state's human population of more than 2.9 million!

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

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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

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

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

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

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...

One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

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

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

In 2018, farmers in Kansas planted 165,000 acres of cotton, which produced about 335,000 bales!

Did you know some of the fertilizer farmers add to the soil comes from the air we breathe? Companies can convert nitrogen in the air into nitrogen to nourish the ground.

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

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

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.

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