Fun Facts

One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

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

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

Did you know some of the fertilizer farmers add to the soil comes from the air we breathe? Companies can convert nitrogen in the air into nitrogen to nourish the ground.

Did you know Kansas farmers grow about 330 million bushels of wheat each year? That’s enough to make 23 billion loaves of bread!

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

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

One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

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

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

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

About one-third of the milk produced in the U.S. is used for making cheese.

Did you know Kansas has an official state soil? It's called Harney silt loam and it covers about 4 million acres of land in our state. 

Gluten-free grains have no caloric advantage over grains containing gluten like wheat, barley and rye. All carbohydrates have four calories per gram. Gluten-free foods are often higher in fat and...

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.

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.

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.