One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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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.

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Did you know that Americans consume about 132 pounds of wheat flour per person each year?

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About a third of a steer is used for beef production. The rest of the animal is used to make by-products found in medicines, cosmetics, detergents, insulation, and much more!

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The cotton gin first came to Kansas in 1854 when a Polish immigrant wanted to gin local cotton near Valley Falls.

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More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

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The top five agiculture commodities in Kansas are cattle, corn, wheat, soybeans and sorghum.

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

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Did you know Kansas farmers grow about 330 million bushels of wheat each year? That’s enough to make 23 billion loaves of bread!

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

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Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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

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Cattle are great recyclers. They convert natural resources that would otherwise be wasted into beef, an edible protein containing 10 essential nutrients such as zinc, iron and B vitamins.  

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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.

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

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One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

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One dairy cow can produce more than 3,000 gallons of milk in a year. There are about 160,000 dairy cows in Kansas. That's a lot of milk!

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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.

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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...

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

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One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

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