Fun Facts

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

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.

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

Output from Kansas agriculture has a direct economic impact of $22.5 billion per year.

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...

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

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

One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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.

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

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.  

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

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

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

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...

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

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

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.

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.

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. 

It takes five to six months for a pig to reach market weight (about 265 pounds). One market hog provides about 160 pounds of pork for the grocery store’s meat case.