Fun Facts

There are more than 300 licensed dairy herds in Kansas with about 143,000 cows total. In 2015 cows produced about 365 million gallons of milk, making Kansas the 16th largest milk producing state.

One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

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

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

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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...

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

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

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

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

Dairy farmers work with animal nutritionists to create recipes that meet the specific nutritional requirements of their cows. A cow’s diet is a combination of hay, grain, silage and proteins,...

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

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

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

Pig farmers have reduced greenhouse gas emissions on pig farms by 35% per pound of pork by changing how crops are raised, how pigs are fed, and how nutrients are recycled.

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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. 

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

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!