Fun Facts

Did you know Kansas has more than 2 million pigs?

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.

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

Wheat flour is a good source of complex carbohydrates and contains protein. Plus, it’s low in fat and sodium.

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

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,...

A finished bale of cotton weighs about 480 pounds.

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

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.

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

Gluten-free grains have no caloric advantage over grains containing gluten like wheat, barley and rye. All carbohydrates have four calories per gram. Gluten-free foods are often higher in fat and...

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.

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.

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

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

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

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

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.  

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

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

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.