Fun Facts

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.

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

Small engines like lawnmowers and boats can use E10 fuel.

Sows give birth (called farrowing) to an average of eight to twelve piglets at a time and will raise six to eight litters of piglets in their lifetime.

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

Cotton bolls, which are the puffs of white produced by cotton plants, are technically fruit.

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!

For a dessert to officially be considered ice cream, it must contain at least 10 percent milkfat.

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

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. 

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!

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...

Gluten is what helps bread expand while the dough rises, and hold its shape while baking and after it cools. It’s also what makes bread chewy.

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

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...

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

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

About one-third of the milk produced in the U.S. is used for making cheese.

There are 7 different breeds of dairy cattle. Farmers choose their breeds based on milk production, size and even personality.