Fun Facts

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

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

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

Kansas is known for its sunflowers. They provide food for insects, birds and cattle, and make great cooking oil, biofuel and a delicious snack for people!

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

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...

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.

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...

Small engines like lawnmowers and boats can use E10 fuel.

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. 

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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

Did you know there are 15,000 soybean farms in Kansas? In 2016, Kansas farmers harvested more than 4 million acres of soybeans.

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...

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

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

Did you know the corn humans eat is different from the corn that cattle eat? Most of the corn people eat is sweet  corn. Cattle and other livestock eat field corn.

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

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