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Wheat

On average, Kansas produces more wheat than any other state. Nearly one-fifth of all wheat grown in the United States is grown in Kansas. And, Kansas ranks first in the nation in flour milling, wheat gluten production and wheat stored. Roughly one-third of Kansas' 63,000 farmers grow wheat. Normally, Kansas farmers produce about 400 million bushels of wheat a year, with a production value that hovers around $1 billion.
One 60-pound bushel of wheat provides about 42 pounds of white flour or 42 commercial loaves of white bread (one-and-a-half pound loaves), 60 pounds of whole-wheat flour or about 90 one-pound loaves of whole wheat bread.
All the wheat grown in Kansas in a single year would fit in a train stretching from western Kansas to the Atlantic Ocean.
U.S. farmers grow nearly 2.4 billion bushels of wheat on 63 million acres of land.
About half of the wheat grown in the United States is used domestically.
The state of Kansas is the largest wheat producer in the United States with North Dakota a close second.
One bushel of wheat contains approximately one million individual kernels.

Corn

An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows.
From One Bushel of Corn... 32 pounds of cornstarch or 33 pounds of corn sweetener or 2.8 gallons of ethanol plus 1.6 pounds of corn oil and 11.4 pounds of 21% protein gluten feed and 3 pounds of 60% gluten meal
A 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.
One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of soda.

Sorghum

Sorghum is used for... Livestock feed, Ethanol, Biodegradable Packaging Material
The United States is the world’s largest producer of grain sorghum.
Grain Sorghum seeds are very small – about 12,000 to 15,000 seeds equal one pound of grain sorghum.
There are approximately 70 to 1,250 seeds in one grain sorghum head.

Soybeans

Today the U.S. grows about 70 million acres of soybeans annually.
Some of the better known soybean products include soy meal, soy flour, soy milk, tofu, meat substitutes, tempeh, soy sauce, soy cheese, soy cream cheese, infant formula, biodiesel fuel, animal feed, etc.