Negotiations on another emergency coronavirus aid package are expected to ramp up as the Senate returns on Monday. Lawmakers are pushing for more money to rescue the agriculture industry that’s been hit hard by the pandemic. (Politico)

Domestic farm workers, many of them undocumented immigrants, would be covered by a bill of rights for essential workers that advocates and a group of House Democrats want included in any future economic relief bill that moves through Congress. (Roll Call)

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Thursday said meatpacking plants will reopen in a matter of “days not weeks,” citing an executive order this week signed by President Trump. Workers in slaughterhouses will start receiving additional protective gear and have access to COVID-19 testing “virtually immediately,” Perdue said. (The Hill

The pandemic is exposing the perils of agreements based on numerical targets rather than tariff reductions or policy concessions. (Wall Street Journal)

– The food supply chain, and all our supply chains, are adapting, slowly and with understandable fits and starts sometimes, to shifts in demand of a magnitude only those old enough to remember WWII have seen before in their lifetimes. (Forbes)

Because of the COVID-related shutdown and slowdown in meat processing, we know the supply curve for meat has shifted upward and to the left (i.e., the marginal cost of producing a pound of beef or pork has risen). Since the beginning of March, it’s less clear what has happened to demand. (Jayson Lusk)