Fun Facts

Cotton can be found in much more than clothes and other fabrics! Cotton by-products can be used to make paper currency, cosmetics and feed for dairy cattle and livestock.

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

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

Output from Kansas agriculture has a direct economic impact of $22.5 billion per year.

Pig farmers have reduced greenhouse gas emissions on pig farms by 35% per pound of pork by changing how crops are raised, how pigs are fed, and how nutrients are recycled.

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.

In pre-refrigeration days, hogs were harvested in the fall and cured for six to seven months, just in time for Easter dinner. That’s how ham came to be the traditional Easter favorite.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

Did you know corn tortillas can differ in color based on the type of corn used? Some are white and others are yellow.

The largest market for field corn is to provide feed for animals like cattle, pigs, chicken, and even catfish. 

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

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