Fun Facts

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.

Small engines like lawnmowers and boats can use E10 fuel.

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

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

Did you know Kansas farmers grow about 330 million bushels of wheat each year? That’s enough to make 23 billion loaves of bread!

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

Within an hour of birth calves are up and ready to nurse. A baby calf will drink a gallon of milk a day.

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

Did you know there are 15,000 soybean farms in Kansas? In 2016, Kansas farmers harvested more than 4 million acres of soybeans.

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

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

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

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

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

One 60-pound bushel of wheat provides about 42 pounds of white flour, enough for about 70, one-pound loaves of white bread.

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.

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

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.  

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...

One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

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.