Fun Facts

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

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

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

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

A common ingredient in fertilizer is phosphate, which comes from ancient sea life. Phosphate is one of many natural ingredients used to keep soil — and plants! — healthy.

One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

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

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

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

Gluten is what helps bread expand while the dough rises, and hold its shape while baking and after it cools. It’s also what makes bread chewy.

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...

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 Kansas farmers grow about 330 million bushels of wheat each year? That’s enough to make 23 billion loaves of bread!

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. 

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

Energy experts estimate global ethanol production and use reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 110 million metric tons per year. That’s equivalent to taking more than 20 million vehicles off the road.

Did you know the corn humans eat is different from the corn that cattle eat? Most of the corn people eat is sweet  corn. Cattle and other livestock eat field corn.

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.

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

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?