Fun Facts

A bushel of soybeans weighs 60 pounds and produces 11 pounds of oil and 48 pounds of soybean meal.

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.  

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

In Kansas alone, pig farmers raised over 3.2 million pigs in 2015, producing over 600 million pounds of pork!

There are more than 29 cuts of beef that meet government guidelines for lean, including tenderloin, T-bone steak and extra lean ground beef.

Small engines like lawnmowers and boats can use E10 fuel.

In addition to meat, pigs provide us with lots of other products, including valves for human heart surgery, suede for shoes and clothing, and gelatin for many food and non-food uses.

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.

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

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

About one-third of the milk produced in the U.S. is used for making cheese.

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

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...

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

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.

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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

Did you know cotton is becoming a big crop in Kansas? Last year, farmers here produced over 164 million pounds of cotton! 

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.

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

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.