Fun Facts

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. 

Soybean oil is a great source of omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin E.

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

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.  

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

Looking for a gluten-free grain? Try sorghum! It's gluten-free and packed with protein, iron, vitamin B-6, niacin, magnesium and phosphorus.  

Milk is one of the best sources of calcium. Our bodies absorb 28 percent of the calcium found in milk, but as little as 5 percent of the calcium found in other foods like spinach.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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 Kansas farmer raises enough food to feed about 155 people!

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

In addition to meat, pigs provide us with lots of other products, including valves for human heart surgery, suede for shoes and clothing, and gelatin for many food and non-food uses.

One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

About two-thirds of the Kansas corn crop is used in-state as livestock feed or in food production.

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.

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

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.