Fun Facts

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

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

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.

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

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...

The United States grows more soybeans than any other country and six out of every ten rows of soybeans are exported to other countries.

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.

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

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

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

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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...

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

Did you know there are 15,000 soybean farms in Kansas? In 2016, Kansas farmers harvested more than 4 million acres of soybeans.

Cotton can be found in much more than clothes and other fabrics! Cotton by-products can be used to make paper currency, cosmetics and feed for dairy cattle and livestock.

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.

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.

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.

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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

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