Fun Facts

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Soybean oil is a great source of omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin E.

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

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

Pork tenderloin is as lean as a skinless chicken breast.

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

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

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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

One acre of soybeans can make 82,368 crayons!

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.

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

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...

One Kansas farmer raises enough food to feed about 155 people!

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,...