Fun Facts

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.

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

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

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

Did you know there are 15,000 soybean farms in Kansas? In 2016, Kansas farmers harvested more than 4 million acres of soybeans.

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

All the wheat grown in Kansas in a single year would fit in a train stretching from western Kansas to the Atlantic Ocean.

Looking for a gluten-free grain? Try sorghum! It's gluten-free and packed with protein, iron, vitamin B-6, niacin, magnesium and phosphorus.  

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

One bale of cotton can make 3,085 diapers.

Dairy farmers work with animal nutritionists to create recipes that meet the specific nutritional requirements of their cows. A cow’s diet is a combination of hay, grain, silage and proteins,...

For a dessert to officially be considered ice cream, it must contain at least 10 percent milkfat.

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

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.  

Sows give birth (called farrowing) to an average of eight to twelve piglets at a time and will raise six to eight litters of piglets in their lifetime.

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