The Ag Secretary hears concerns of bias, discrimination and harassment experienced by Asian Pacific American employees at USDA. (Stephanie Ho and Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack)

The Ag Secretary says USDA will have internal and external efforts to fight discrimination. (Stephanie Ho and Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack)

USDA's Asian Pacific American employees welcomed the Ag Secretary to a discussion on discrimination. (Stephanie Ho and Justin Rhee, president of the Asian Pacific American Network in Agriculture at USDA)

Grants were recently awarded to land grant universities researching how to develop advanced tools to transfer agricultural and food-based data into practical applications. (Rod Bain and Steven Thomson of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture)

Steven Thomson of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture discuses two ongoing cyberinformatic development projects connected to USDA's Food and Ag Cyberinformatic Tools research grant program.

With spring comes USDA's annual campaign to raise awareness of what it calls hungry pests. (Stephanie Ho and Samantha Simon, Executive Director for Emergency and Domestic Programs with Plant Protection and Quarantine)

Invasive pests can cause damage that can cost an estimated 40-billion dollars each year. (Stephanie Ho and Samantha Simon, Executive Director for Emergency and Domestic Programs with Plant Protection and Quarantine)

As plants emerge from dormancy, plant pests and diseases also are waking up. (Stephanie Ho and Samantha Simon, Executive Director for Emergency and Domestic Programs with Plant Protection and Quarantine)

There are ways ordinary people help spread invasive pests to other parts of the country, even if they don't mean to. (Stephanie Ho and Samantha Simon, Executive Director for Emergency and Domestic Programs with Plant Protection and Quarantine)

Our nation's Transportation Secretary says several aspects of rural transportation infrastructure improvements are included under the proposed American Jobs Plan. (Rod Bain and Secretary Pete Buttigieg)