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.

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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.

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More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

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

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One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Did you know that in Kansas cows outnumber people 2-to1? There are almost 3 million people and more than 6 million cattle!

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Output from Kansas agriculture has a direct economic impact of $22.5 billion per year.

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Small engines like lawnmowers and boats can use E10 fuel.

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One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Gluten-free grains have no caloric advantage over grains containing gluten like wheat, barley and rye. All carbohydrates have four calories per gram. Gluten-free foods are often higher in fat and...

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