Fun Facts

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

It takes five to six months for a pig to reach market weight (about 265 pounds). One market hog provides about 160 pounds of pork for the grocery store’s meat case.

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

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

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

One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

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

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

Fertilizer contains a lot of helpful nutrients, thanks to Mother Nature! Potash, which is salt from ancient evaporated oceans, is used in fertilizer to feed our soil.

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.

Grain sorghum is one of the oldest known grains. Its origins can be traced back to ancient Africa and India.

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.

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...