In 2018, farmers in Kansas planted 165,000 acres of cotton, which produced about 335,000 bales!
See full factEnergy experts estimate global ethanol production and use reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 110 million metric tons per year. That’s equivalent to taking more than 20 million vehicles off the road.
See full factOne acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!
See full factDrink local with milk! It takes about 48 hours for milk to travel from dairy farms to the grocery store.
See full factMore than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.
See full factDid you know that one acre of soybeans can produce 82,368 crayons?
See full factOutput from Kansas agriculture has a direct economic impact of $22.5 billion per year.
See full factThere 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 factThere are about 60-80 pods on a mature soybean plant. Each pod contains three small soybeans.
See full factDid 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.
See full factAbout two-thirds of the Kansas corn crop is used in-state as livestock feed or in food production.
See full factDid you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?
See full factMexico and Japan are our top international corn buyers. They buy 50 percent of U.S. corn exports.
See full factCattle 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.
See full factThere are more than 300 licensed dairy herds in Kansas with about 143,000 cows total. In 2015 cows produced about 365 million gallons of milk, making Kansas the 16th largest milk producing state.
See full factAbout two-thirds of the Kansas corn crop is used in-state as livestock feed or in food production.
See full factOne bale of cotton can make 4,312 mid-calf socks.
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 factA bushel of soybeans weighs 60 pounds and produces 11 pounds of oil and 48 pounds of soybean meal.
See full factOne dairy cow can produce more than 3,000 gallons of milk in a year. There are about 160,000 dairy cows in Kansas. That's a lot of milk!
See full factFarmers in Kansas grow more than 650 million bushels of corn each year.
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