Fun Facts

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

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.  

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...

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.

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...

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

The average Kansas dairy cow produces about 7 gallons of milk each day. That’s more than 2,544 gallons of milk over the course of a typical year.

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

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

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

The largest market for field corn is to provide feed for animals like cattle, pigs, chicken, and even catfish. 

One bushel of corn fed to livestock produces 5.6 pounds of retail beef, 13 pounds of retail pork, 19.6 pounds of chicken or 28 pounds of catfish.

There are 7 different breeds of dairy cattle. Farmers choose their breeds based on milk production, size and even personality.

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

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

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

Did you know some of the fertilizer farmers add to the soil comes from the air we breathe? Companies can convert nitrogen in the air into nitrogen to nourish the ground.

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

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

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

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