Fun Facts

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

One bale of cotton can make 1,256 pillowcases.

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

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

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

Kansas is the top state for growing and storing wheat.

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

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

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.  

Grain sorghum is one of the oldest known grains. Its origins can be traced back to ancient Africa and India.

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

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

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

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.

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.

One cowhide can produce enough leather to make 20 footballs, 18 soccer balls, 18 volleyballs or 12 basketballs.

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.

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.

Enriched white bread and other enriched grain products are a good source of iron and B vitamins (thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and folic acid), as well as complex carbohydrates.

More than 87 percent of land in Kansas is farmland.

Small engines like lawnmowers and boats can use E10 fuel.