Fun Facts

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

There are more than 29 cuts of beef that meet government guidelines for lean, including tenderloin, T-bone steak and extra lean ground beef.

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

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

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.

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

A bushel of soybeans weighs 60 pounds and produces 11 pounds of oil and 48 pounds of soybean meal.

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

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

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.

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

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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

Did you know Kansas farmers grow about 330 million bushels of wheat each year? That’s enough to make 23 billion loaves of bread!

In 2018, farmers in Kansas planted 165,000 acres of cotton, which produced about 335,000 bales!

Milk is one of the best sources of calcium. Our bodies absorb 28 percent of the calcium found in milk, but as little as 5 percent of the calcium found in other foods like spinach.

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.  

Gluten is what helps bread expand while the dough rises, and hold its shape while baking and after it cools. It’s also what makes bread chewy.

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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. 

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...