Fun Facts

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

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.

Did you know that Americans consume about 132 pounds of wheat flour per person each year?

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

One bushel of corn fed to livestock produces 5.6 pounds of retail beef, 13 pounds of retail pork, 19.6 pounds of chicken or 28 pounds of catfish.

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,...

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.

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

The largest market for field corn is to provide feed for animals like cattle, pigs, chicken, and even catfish. 

Soybean oil is a great source of omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin E.

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

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.

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.

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

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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 4,312 mid-calf socks.

Sows give birth (called farrowing) to an average of eight to twelve piglets at a time and will raise six to eight litters of piglets in their lifetime.

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.  

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