Fun Facts

Grains can be categorized into food grains (for people) and feed grains (for cattle). Cattle eat feed grains like field corn and grain sorghum. An average of 4 ½ pounds of grain is used to produce a...

Looking for a gluten-free grain? Try sorghum! It's gluten-free and packed with protein, iron, vitamin B-6, niacin, magnesium and phosphorus.  

One 60-pound bushel of wheat provides about 42 pounds of white flour, enough for about 70, one-pound loaves of white bread.

Did 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. 

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.

In Kansas alone, pig farmers raised over 3.2 million pigs in 2015, producing over 600 million pounds of pork!

Did you know corn tortillas can differ in color based on the type of corn used? Some are white and others are yellow.

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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

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

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

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

Kansas exports more than $4.8 billion in agricultural products per year.

Enriched white bread and other enriched grain products are a good source of iron and B vitamins (thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and folic acid), as well as complex carbohydrates.

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

One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

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...

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

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

One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

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