Fun Facts

A bushel of soybeans weighs 60 pounds and produces 11 pounds of oil and 48 pounds of soybean meal.

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

A common ingredient in fertilizer is phosphate, which comes from ancient sea life. Phosphate is one of many natural ingredients used to keep soil — and plants! — healthy.

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.

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.

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

Small engines like lawnmowers and boats can use E10 fuel.

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...

Did you know that in Kansas cows outnumber people 2-to1? There are almost 3 million people and more than 6 million cattle!

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

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

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

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.

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

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.  

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

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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.

Did you know there are 15,000 soybean farms in Kansas? In 2016, Kansas farmers harvested more than 4 million acres of soybeans.

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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