Fun Facts

From farm to processor to distribution and retail, dairy creates jobs that support the economic well-being of Kansans. The dairy industry contributes $592 million annually to the Kansas economy and...

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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

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!

It takes five to six months for a pig to reach market weight (about 265 pounds). One market hog provides about 160 pounds of pork for the grocery store’s meat case.

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

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

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 4,312 mid-calf socks.

One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

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

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

Cattle are great recyclers. They convert natural resources that would otherwise be wasted into beef, an edible protein containing 10 essential nutrients such as zinc, iron and B vitamins.  

Small engines like lawnmowers and boats can use E10 fuel.

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

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

One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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...

Energy experts estimate global ethanol production and use reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 110 million metric tons per year. That’s equivalent to taking more than 20 million vehicles off the road.

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