Fun Facts

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

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

Within an hour of birth calves are up and ready to nurse. A baby calf will drink a gallon of milk a day.

Small engines like lawnmowers and boats can use E10 fuel.

In 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.

Soybean oil is a great source of omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin E.

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

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...

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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

One cowhide can produce enough leather to make 20 footballs, 18 soccer balls, 18 volleyballs or 12 basketballs.

The cotton gin first came to Kansas in 1854 when a Polish immigrant wanted to gin local cotton near Valley Falls.

Gluten is what helps bread expand while the dough rises, and hold its shape while baking and after it cools. It’s also what makes bread chewy.

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

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,...

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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

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

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

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.