It takes five to six months for a pig to reach market weight (about 265 pounds). One market hog provides about 160 pounds of pork for the grocery store’s meat case.

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

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For a dessert to officially be considered ice cream, it must contain at least 10 percent milkfat.

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Small engines like lawnmowers and boats can use E10 fuel.

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

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

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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.

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

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Cotton bolls, which are the puffs of white produced by cotton plants, are technically fruit.

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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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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.

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

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More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

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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 bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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

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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.

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Sorghum can be used to make environmentally-friendly packing peanuts, fencing materials, floral arrangements, brooms and more!

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