Fun Facts

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

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

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

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

Fertilizer contains a lot of helpful nutrients, thanks to Mother Nature! Potash, which is salt from ancient evaporated oceans, is used in fertilizer to feed our soil.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

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

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

One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

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.