There 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 factOne bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.
See full factPork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.
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 factMexico and Japan are our top international corn buyers. They buy 50 percent of U.S. corn exports.
See full factOne bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.
See full factOne 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.
See full factCotton bolls, which are the puffs of white produced by cotton plants, are technically fruit.
See full fact98 percent of all corn farms are family-run farms.
See full factKansas exports more than $4.8 billion in agricultural products per year.
See full factDid you know that one acre of soybeans can produce 82,368 crayons?
See full factIn addition to meat, pigs provide us with lots of other products, including valves for human heart surgery, suede for shoes and clothing, and gelatin for many food and non-food uses.
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 factOutput from Kansas agriculture has a direct economic impact of $22.5 billion per year.
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 factOne bale of cotton can make 4,312 mid-calf socks.
See full factOne acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!
See full factCompared with 50 years ago, pig farmers are using 41% less water to produce a pound of pork, with a 35% smaller carbon footprint.
See full factSows 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.
See full factThe 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.
See full factDid 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.
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