Fun Facts

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 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!

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

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

One Kansas farmer raises enough food to feed about 155 people!

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

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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...

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

Did you know that one acre of soybeans can produce 82,368 crayons?

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

There are more than 300 licensed dairy herds in Kansas with about 143,000 cows total. In 2015 cows produced about 365 million gallons of milk, making Kansas the 16th largest milk producing state.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

From farm to processor to distribution and retail, dairy creates jobs that support the economic well-being of Kansans. The dairy industry contributes $592 million annually to the Kansas economy and...

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