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Industry Statistics

• In 1997 the Kansas beef industry provided $5.1 billion in personal income.  
• The cattle industry generates 23% of the gross state product, totaling $16.8 billion.  
• Cattle represented 59.4% of the 1999 Kansas agricultural cash receipts. (Kansas Ag Statistics) 
• Cattle generated $4.95 billion in cash receipts during 2000. (Kansas Ag Statistics) 
• Kansas beef industry statistics:
    8.21 million head processed - 2000
  1.5 million stockers grazed annually
  1.5 million stockers backgrounded annually
       1.52 million beef cows on Jan. 1, 2001
• Kansas ranks first nationwide in commercial cattle processed with 8.21 million head. (Kansas Ag Statistics, 2000)
• Kansas ranks third in beef processing and red meat production. (Kansas Ag Statistics, 1999)
• Kansas ranks second in the value of live animals and meat exported to other countries at $761.7 million. (1999)
• Meat packing and prepared meat products manufacturing make up the largest share of the food processing industry in the state. This industry provides employment for over 18,700 employees in Kansas.
• Kansas ranked second in fed cattle marketed with 5.37 million in 2000. That represents 22.3% of all cattle fed in the United States. (Kansas Ag Statistics)
• Kansas ranked second in total red meat production in 2000. Beef was 6.3 billion pounds of this total. (Kansas Ag Statistics)
• Kansas ranks second in hides and skins exported from the U.S., totaling $200.2 million in 1999.
• Kansas has 36,000 farms with cattle and calves. (January 1, 2001)
• Cattle consume 72% of the corn, 16% of the soybeans and 60% of the hay grown in the state.
• Kansas has 47.8 million acres of farm ground; however, not all of this land can be used to grow crops. Cattle are the ideal mechanism for efficiently utilizing grasses and plants growing on the 17.8 million acres of Kansas pasture and rangeland. These acres are not suited for the production of cultivated crops and would be wasted if it were not for ruminants, such as cattle, turning these resources into essential protein and nutrients for human use.

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