Fun Facts

One bale of cotton can make 4,312 mid-calf socks.

Farmers in Kansas grow more than 650 million bushels of corn each year. 

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

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

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.  

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

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.

Did you know that one acre of soybeans can produce 82,368 crayons?

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

In 2018, farmers in Kansas planted 165,000 acres of cotton, which produced about 335,000 bales!

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

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.

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...

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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