Fun Facts

In addition to meat, pigs provide us with lots of other products, including valves for human heart surgery, suede for shoes and clothing, and gelatin for many food and non-food uses.

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

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

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.

One cowhide can produce enough leather to make 20 footballs, 18 soccer balls, 18 volleyballs or 12 basketballs.

Grains can be categorized into food grains (for people) and feed grains (for cattle). Cattle eat feed grains like field corn and grain sorghum. An average of 4 ½ pounds of grain is used to produce a...

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

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.

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.  

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. 

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

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

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

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

98 percent of all corn farms are family-run farms.

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

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

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,...

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

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