Fun Facts

Did you know cotton is becoming a big crop in Kansas? Last year, farmers here produced over 164 million pounds of cotton! 

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.

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

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...

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

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

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

One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

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

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

There are more than 300 licensed dairy herds in Kansas with about 143,000 cows total. In 2015 cows produced about 365 million gallons of milk, making Kansas the 16th largest milk producing state.

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

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.

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.

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