Grains can be categorized into food grains (for people) and feed grains (for cattle). Cattle eat feed grains like field corn and grain sorghum. An average of 4 ½ pounds of grain is used to produce a...

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Corn is produced on every continent of the world with the exception of Antarctica. 

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Small engines like lawnmowers and boats can use E10 fuel.

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Farmers in Kansas grow more than 650 million bushels of corn each year. 

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Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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

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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.

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

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

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Milk is one of the best sources of calcium. Our bodies absorb 28 percent of the calcium found in milk, but as little as 5 percent of the calcium found in other foods like spinach.

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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.

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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.

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There are about 60-80 pods on a mature soybean plant. Each pod contains three small soybeans.

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One bushel of corn makes 2.8 gallons of ethanol.

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Kansas grows winter wheat that is planted and sprouts in the fall, becomes dormant in the winter, grows again in the spring and is harvested in early summer.

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

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

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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.

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Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

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One bushel of corn fed to livestock produces 5.6 pounds of retail beef, 13 pounds of retail pork, 19.6 pounds of chicken or 28 pounds of catfish.

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

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