Wyoming Named Farm to School Crunch Off Champions

January 6, 2025: Wyoming has been declared the Champions of the Mountain Plains Region Crunch Off, a competition for logging the most bites into locally-grown food per capita during Wyoming Farm to School Week in October. The competition included Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming and was held in honor of National Farm to School Month.

Wyoming claimed the top spot, dethroning long-time champion Nebraska, surging from just 1,986 crunches last year to 39,982 this year — an increase of over 2,000%. A substantial portion of the crunches this year...