Fun Facts

One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

Kansas is known for its sunflowers. They provide food for insects, birds and cattle, and make great cooking oil, biofuel and a delicious snack for people!

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

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

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

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. 

Compared with 50 years ago, pig farmers are using 41% less water to produce a pound of pork, with a 35% smaller carbon footprint.

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

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

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

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

The average Kansas dairy cow produces about 7 gallons of milk each day. That’s more than 2,544 gallons of milk over the course of a typical year.

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

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.

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

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

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

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...

The United States grows more soybeans than any other country and six out of every ten rows of soybeans are exported to other countries.

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