Fun Facts

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.

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

One dairy cow can produce more than 3,000 gallons of milk in a year. There are about 160,000 dairy cows in Kansas. That's a lot of milk!

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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

About a third of a steer is used for beef production. The rest of the animal is used to make by-products found in medicines, cosmetics, detergents, insulation, and much more!

One 60-pound bushel of wheat provides about 42 pounds of white flour, enough for about 70, one-pound loaves of white bread.

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

Cotton can be found in much more than clothes and other fabrics! Cotton by-products can be used to make paper currency, cosmetics and feed for dairy cattle and livestock.

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

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.

One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The cotton gin first came to Kansas in 1854 when a Polish immigrant wanted to gin local cotton near Valley Falls.

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?