Fun Facts

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

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

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...

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

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.

Beef from cows and steers are used in two different ways. . Cow meat is used primarily as ground beef for hamburgers and the majority of steer meat is used as steaks.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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...

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.

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

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 corn tortillas can differ in color based on the type of corn used? Some are white and others are yellow.

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

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