Fun Facts

There 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...

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

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

Milk 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.

There are more than 29 cuts of beef that meet government guidelines for lean, including tenderloin, T-bone steak and extra lean ground beef.

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

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

A 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.

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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

Energy experts estimate global ethanol production and use reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 110 million metric tons per year. That’s equivalent to taking more than 20 million vehicles off the road.

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

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

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

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...

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

Drink local with milk! It takes about 48 hours for milk to travel from dairy farms to the grocery store.

Wheat flour is a good source of complex carbohydrates and contains protein. Plus, it’s low in fat and sodium.

There are about 60-80 pods on a mature soybean plant. Each pod contains three small soybeans.

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

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