Fun Facts

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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

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.

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...

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. 

About one-third of the milk produced in the U.S. is used for making cheese.

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

Compared with 50 years ago, pig farmers are using 41% less water to produce a pound of pork, with a 35% smaller carbon footprint.

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

Milk is one of the best sources of calcium. Our bodies absorb 28 percent of the calcium found in milk, but as little as 5 percent of the calcium found in other foods like spinach.

98 percent of all corn farms are family-run farms.

One bushel of corn fed to livestock produces 5.6 pounds of retail beef, 13 pounds of retail pork, 19.6 pounds of chicken or 28 pounds of catfish.

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

The average Kansas dairy cow produces about 7 gallons of milk each day. That’s more than 2,544 gallons of milk over the course of a typical year.

Did you know the corn humans eat is different from the corn that cattle eat? Most of the corn people eat is sweet  corn. Cattle and other livestock eat field corn.

Within an hour of birth calves are up and ready to nurse. A baby calf will drink a gallon of milk a day.

Output from Kansas agriculture has a direct economic impact of $22.5 billion per year.

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

From farm to processor to distribution and retail, dairy creates jobs that support the economic well-being of Kansans. The dairy industry contributes $592 million annually to the Kansas economy and...

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.