WHEAT FACTS
A grain elevator in Hutchinson is 1/2 mile long and holds 46 million bushels in its 1,000 bins.
There are 22,430 Kansas wheat farmers.
All of the wheat grown in Kansas in a single year would fit in a train stretching from western Kansas to the Atlantic Ocean.
Kansas makes up 18% of the total U.S. wheat production.
Kansas makes up 9% of the total U.S. wheat that is milled into flour.
One 60-pound bushel of wheat provides about 42 pounds of white flour, enough for about 70.1 pound loaves of white bread.
Half of the wheat grown in Kansas is used in the United States; the other half is exported.
There are 8.8 million acres of Kansas wheat.
Nearly one-fifth of all wheat grown in the United States is grown in Kansas. This is why it is called the "Wheat State" and "Breadbasket of the World."
Sumner County, Kansas is known as the "Wheat Capital of the World." In 2009, the county's farmers produced 9 million bushels of wheat.
There are about 50 "kernels" - or wheat seeds - in each head of wheat. A pound of wheat contains about 16,000 kernels.
A modern combine takes just nine seconds to harvest enough wheat to make about 70 loaves of bread.
A family of four can live 10 years off the bread produced from one acre of wheat.
The 2009 Kansas wheat crop covered 8.8 million acres and yielded 369.9 million bushels, for an average yield of 42 bushels per acre.
American consumers spend the lowest percentage of their annual income on food - just 10%.
In 2009, one farmer produces enough food to feed about 144 people each day.
Agriculture provides almost everything we eat, use and wear on a daily basis.
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