News from Washington: May 4-8

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• Azar Blames ‘Home and Social Conditions’ for Meatpacking Crisis
• Trump: Stay Tuned on China Purchases
• Food, Consumer Product Companies Ask Pence for Guidance
• Worker Crisis Hits the Grocery Store
• Trump Suggests DOJ Will Look into Meatpackers 
• Supersizing USDA’s Farm Relief Arsenal
• Trump Signs Executive Order Intended to Boost Seafood Industry
• How To Get Food Banks Buy Directly From Farms
• States Seek Federal Beef Price-Fixing Probe
• Economic Disaster Loans Now Open to Small Farms
• All the Ag Aid Ideas
• USDA Throws Biofuel Sector A Bone
• Giant Dairy Merger Is A Done Deal
• Tracking SNAP Approvals