Fun Facts

One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

Cotton can be found in much more than clothes and other fabrics! Cotton by-products can be used to make paper currency, cosmetics and feed for dairy cattle and livestock.

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

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!

Drink local with milk! It takes about 48 hours for milk to travel from dairy farms to the grocery store.

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

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

In pre-refrigeration days, hogs were harvested in the fall and cured for six to seven months, just in time for Easter dinner. That’s how ham came to be the traditional Easter favorite.

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

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

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

The majority of oil used for cooking in our country is U.S.-grown 100% soybean oil!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

One Kansas farmer raises enough food to feed about 155 people!