Fun Facts

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

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

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

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. 

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.

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,...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Kansas exports more than $4.8 billion in agricultural products per year.

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

Fertilizer contains a lot of helpful nutrients, thanks to Mother Nature! Potash, which is salt from ancient evaporated oceans, is used in fertilizer to feed our soil.

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...

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

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!

Kansas grows winter wheat that is planted and sprouts in the fall, becomes dormant in the winter, grows again in the spring and is harvested in early summer.

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

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