Fun Facts

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

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

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

One bale of cotton can make 4,312 mid-calf socks.

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

Pig farmers have reduced greenhouse gas emissions on pig farms by 35% per pound of pork by changing how crops are raised, how pigs are fed, and how nutrients are recycled.

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.

All the wheat grown in Kansas in a single year would fit in a train stretching from western Kansas to the Atlantic Ocean.

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

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

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. 

One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

Enriched white bread and other enriched grain products are a good source of iron and B vitamins (thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and folic acid), as well as complex carbohydrates.

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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

About four percent of the land in Kansas is part of conservation or wetland reserve programs.

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 that in Kansas cows outnumber people 2-to1? There are almost 3 million people and more than 6 million cattle!

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...

Did you know some of the fertilizer farmers add to the soil comes from the air we breathe? Companies can convert nitrogen in the air into nitrogen to nourish the ground.

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