The Agriculture Secretary says the challenge in feeding our nation's population goes beyond addressing food insecurity. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

The Agriculture Secretary Wednesday presented goals of his, and the Administration's, to address issues of nutrition and food insecurity in our country. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

Various actions have taken place recently regarding the bolstering of food and nutrition assistance programs. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

USDA is looking into why enrollment numbers for its Women, Infants and Children nutrition program is not as high as it could be. (Stephanie Ho and Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack)

Speaking to the National Press Foundation, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack pointed to two USDA nutrition programs that will benefit from the recent stimulus plan.

The Agriculture Secretary says evaluation will soon take place on a pandemic-based food assistance program that is continuing through next month. (Rod Bain and Secretary Tom Vilsack)

We now have some preliminary dollar figures from Texas on the losses to that state's agriculture from that deadly winter storm. (Gary Crawford. President Joe Biden and Jeff Hyde, with Texas A & M AgriLife Extension)

It may be weeks before we know just how much damage that deadly winter storm did to Texas agriculture. (Gary Crawford and Jeff Hyde, with Texas A & M AgriLife Extension)

Jeff Hyde, with Texas A & M AgriLife Extension, saying that the initial storm loss figure for agriculture of 600 million dollars is a very conservative early estimate.

Jeff Hyde, with Texas A & M AgriLife Extension, explaining how they got the data for the preliminary winter storm agricultural loss assessment of 600 million dollars.