Mexico and Japan are our top international corn buyers. They buy 50 percent of U.S. corn exports.
See full factAll the wheat grown in Kansas in a single year would fit in a train stretching from western Kansas to the Atlantic Ocean.
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 factSorghum can be used to make environmentally-friendly packing peanuts, fencing materials, floral arrangements, brooms and more!
See full factOne bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.
See full factMilk is one of the best sources of calcium. Our bodies absorb 28 percent of the calcium found in milk, but as little as 5 percent of the calcium found in other foods like spinach.
See full factKansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.
See full factOne bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.
See full factThe top five agiculture commodities in Kansas are cattle, corn, wheat, soybeans and sorghum.
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 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.
See full factDid you know that one acre of soybeans can produce 82,368 crayons?
See full factMexico and Japan are our top international corn buyers. They buy 50 percent of U.S. corn exports.
See full factCotton bolls, which are the puffs of white produced by cotton plants, are technically fruit.
See full factIn 2018, farmers in Kansas planted 165,000 acres of cotton, which produced about 335,000 bales!
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 factThe majority of oil used for cooking in our country is U.S.-grown 100% soybean oil!
See full factPig farmers have reduced greenhouse gas emissions on pig farms by 35% per pound of pork by changing how crops are raised, how pigs are fed, and how nutrients are recycled.
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 factOne acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!
See full factThe 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...
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