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.

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

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

The cotton gin first came to Kansas in 1854 when a Polish immigrant wanted to gin local cotton near Valley Falls.

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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

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!

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. 

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.

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...

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!

The largest market for field corn is to provide feed for animals like cattle, pigs, chicken, and even catfish. 

Gluten-free grains have no caloric advantage over grains containing gluten like wheat, barley and rye. All carbohydrates have four calories per gram. Gluten-free foods are often higher in fat and...

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

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.

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

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...

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