Fun Facts

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

Looking for a gluten-free grain? Try sorghum! It's gluten-free and packed with protein, iron, vitamin B-6, niacin, magnesium and phosphorus.  

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...

Corn is produced on every continent of the world with the exception of Antarctica. 

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

The average Kansas dairy cow produces about 7 gallons of milk each day. That’s more than 2,544 gallons of milk over the course of a typical year.

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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

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

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

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.

A common ingredient in fertilizer is phosphate, which comes from ancient sea life. Phosphate is one of many natural ingredients used to keep soil — and plants! — healthy.

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.

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

Dairy farmers work with animal nutritionists to create recipes that meet the specific nutritional requirements of their cows. A cow’s diet is a combination of hay, grain, silage and proteins,...

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.  

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.

Small engines like lawnmowers and boats can use E10 fuel.

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

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

Did you know that one acre of soybeans can produce 82,368 crayons?