Fun Facts

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

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

There are more than 29 cuts of beef that meet government guidelines for lean, including tenderloin, T-bone steak and extra lean ground beef.

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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

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

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.

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

Did you know that Americans consume about 132 pounds of wheat flour per person each year?

One cowhide can produce enough leather to make 20 footballs, 18 soccer balls, 18 volleyballs or 12 basketballs.

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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...

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

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

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

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

Sows give birth (called farrowing) to an average of eight to twelve piglets at a time and will raise six to eight litters of piglets in their lifetime.

Kansas grows winter wheat that is planted and sprouts in the fall, becomes dormant in the winter, grows again in the spring and is harvested in early summer.

One Kansas farmer raises enough food to feed about 155 people!

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. 

One bale of cotton can make 4,312 mid-calf socks.