Fun Facts

One dairy cow can produce more than 3,000 gallons of milk in a year. There are about 160,000 dairy cows in Kansas. That's a lot of milk!

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

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

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.

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

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

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

Kansas exports more than $4.8 billion in agricultural products per year.

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.

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

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

Enriched white bread and other enriched grain products are a good source of iron and B vitamins (thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and folic acid), as well as complex carbohydrates.

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

Beef from cows and steers are used in two different ways. . Cow meat is used primarily as ground beef for hamburgers and the majority of steer meat is used as steaks.

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!

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

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...

Kansas grows winter wheat that is planted and sprouts in the fall, becomes dormant in the winter, grows again in the spring and is harvested in early summer.

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

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!