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...
See full factA 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.
See full factDrink local with milk! It takes about 48 hours for milk to travel from dairy farms to the grocery store.
See full factA bushel of soybeans weighs 60 pounds and produces 11 pounds of oil and 48 pounds of soybean meal.
See full fact98 percent of all corn farms are family-run farms.
See full factAbout four percent of the land in Kansas is part of conservation or wetland reserve programs.
See full factCotton bolls, which are the puffs of white produced by cotton plants, are technically fruit.
See full factDid 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.
See full factDid you know that in Kansas cows outnumber people 2-to1? There are almost 3 million people and more than 6 million cattle!
See full factGrain sorghum is one of the oldest known grains. Its origins can be traced back to ancient Africa and India.
See full factDid you know that one acre of soybeans can produce 82,368 crayons?
See full factIn Kansas alone, pig farmers raised over 3.2 million pigs in 2015, producing over 600 million pounds of pork!
See full factOne acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!
See full factDid you know Kansas farmers grow about 330 million bushels of wheat each year? That’s enough to make 23 billion loaves of bread!
See full factMexico and Japan are our top international corn buyers. They buy 50 percent of U.S. corn exports.
See full factSorghum can be used to make environmentally-friendly packing peanuts, fencing materials, floral arrangements, brooms and more!
See full factAbout two-thirds of the Kansas corn crop is used in-state as livestock feed or in food production.
See full factFertilizer 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.
See full factAll the wheat grown in Kansas in a single year would fit in a train stretching from western Kansas to the Atlantic Ocean.
See full factAbout one-third of the milk produced in the U.S. is used for making cheese.
See full factThe cotton gin first came to Kansas in 1854 when a Polish immigrant wanted to gin local cotton near Valley Falls.
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