Fun Facts

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.

The United States grows more soybeans than any other country and six out of every ten rows of soybeans are exported to other countries.

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

A bushel of soybeans weighs 60 pounds and produces 11 pounds of oil and 48 pounds of soybean meal.

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

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...

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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

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

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

There are more than 300 licensed dairy herds in Kansas with about 143,000 cows total. In 2015 cows produced about 365 million gallons of milk, making Kansas the 16th largest milk producing state.

One bushel of corn fed to livestock produces 5.6 pounds of retail beef, 13 pounds of retail pork, 19.6 pounds of chicken or 28 pounds of catfish.

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

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

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

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

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

There are more than 29 cuts of beef that meet government guidelines for lean, including tenderloin, T-bone steak and extra lean ground beef.

Wheat flour is a good source of complex carbohydrates and contains protein. Plus, it’s low in fat and sodium.

Milk is one of the best sources of calcium. Our bodies absorb 28 percent of the calcium found in milk, but as little as 5 percent of the calcium found in other foods like spinach.

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