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USDA getting food to Hurricane Harvey areas

The USDA is arranging for boxes of food to reach Hurricane Harvey victims in south Texas. “These people NEED help and, right now, the biggest need that they have is food,” says USDA’s Bill Ludwig heads up the southwest regional office of the Food & Nutrition Service and says the packages will go directly to food banks, “That package will consist of a number of different commodities. It’ll weigh 30 to 35 pounds. It should feed a family of four for about five days.”

Right now, he says, the food is coming from Oklahoma and Arkansas but Ludwig says they can source it from further out if they need to.  None of the food needs cooking.