Fun Facts

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.

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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...

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

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

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

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

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.

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

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

Sows give birth (called farrowing) to an average of eight to twelve piglets at a time and will raise six to eight litters of piglets in their lifetime.

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

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

Corn is produced on every continent of the world with the exception of Antarctica. 

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

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

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

Compared with 50 years ago, pig farmers are using 41% less water to produce a pound of pork, with a 35% smaller carbon footprint.

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.

Dairy farmers work with animal nutritionists to create recipes that meet the specific nutritional requirements of their cows. A cow’s diet is a combination of hay, grain, silage and proteins,...