Fun Facts

Enriched white bread and other enriched grain products are a good source of iron and B vitamins (thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and folic acid), as well as complex carbohydrates.

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

In Kansas alone, pig farmers raised over 3.2 million pigs in 2015, producing over 600 million pounds of pork!

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

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

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

One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

Beef from cows and steers are used in two different ways. . Cow meat is used primarily as ground beef for hamburgers and the majority of steer meat is used as steaks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

About four percent of the land in Kansas is part of conservation or wetland reserve programs.