Fun Facts

In 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.

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

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.

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

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.

There are 7 different breeds of dairy cattle. Farmers choose their breeds based on milk production, size and even personality.

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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.

All the wheat grown in Kansas in a single year would fit in a train stretching from western Kansas to the Atlantic Ocean.

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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.

One Kansas farmer raises enough food to feed about 155 people!

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

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

Did you know that in Kansas cows outnumber people 2-to1? There are almost 3 million people and more than 6 million cattle!

The United States grows more soybeans than any other country and six out of every ten rows of soybeans are exported to other countries.

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

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

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...

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