Fun Facts

The journey from the time a calf is conceived to the time beef is consumed takes 24-30 months and thousands of miles—from ranches, farms, feed yards and packing plants to grocery stores and...

The majority of oil used for cooking in our country is U.S.-grown 100% soybean oil!

Grain sorghum is one of the oldest known grains. Its origins can be traced back to ancient Africa and India.

About four percent of the land in Kansas is part of conservation or wetland reserve programs.

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

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

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

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

One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

Mexico and Japan are our top international corn buyers. They buy 50 percent of U.S. corn exports.

Gluten is what helps bread expand while the dough rises, and hold its shape while baking and after it cools. It’s also what makes bread chewy.

Gluten-free grains have no caloric advantage over grains containing gluten like wheat, barley and rye. All carbohydrates have four calories per gram. Gluten-free foods are often higher in fat and...

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.

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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

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.

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.

For a dessert to officially be considered ice cream, it must contain at least 10 percent milkfat.

There are about 60-80 pods on a mature soybean plant. Each pod contains three small soybeans.

Drink local with milk! It takes about 48 hours for milk to travel from dairy farms to the grocery store.

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...