Fun Facts

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.

Beef from cows and steers are used in two different ways. Cow meat is used primarily as ground beef for hamburgers and the majority of steer meat is used as steaks.

One dairy cow can produce more than 3,000 gallons of milk in a year. There are about 160,000 dairy cows in Kansas. That's a lot of milk!

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.

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

One bale of cotton can make 4,312 mid-calf socks.

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.

The top five agiculture commodities in Kansas are cattle, corn, wheat, soybeans and sorghum.

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

Did you know corn tortillas can differ in color based on the type of corn used? Some are white and others are yellow.

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

Compared with 50 years ago, pig farmers are using 41% less water to produce a pound of pork, with a 35% smaller carbon footprint.

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.

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.

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

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

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

Did you know that Americans consume about 132 pounds of wheat flour per person each year?

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