Tallgrass prairie of the Flint Hills covers roughly four million acres. The majority of those acres are in Kansas. The Flint Hills is the largest tall grass prairie in the United States.
Tallgrass prairie once blanketed 170 million acres of North America, extending from Kansas to Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, North Dakota, Illinois and Canada.
Golden in autumn and greenish-blue in the spring, Flint Hills switchgrass is a favorite among ranchers. The optimal grazing height of switchgrass is one-and-a-half to two feet.
In the summer as traditional grasses stop producing, switchgrass remains rich in protein. Perfect for cattle.
The cattle-to-person ratio in Kansas is two-to-one. There are, give or take, six million head of cattle in Kansas. The cattle business is a $10 billion annual industry in Kansas.
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