Egg Industry - January 2017 - 14
14 ❙ EggIndustry US poultry industry recalibrates for Trump presidency The U.S. poultry industry's political, regulatory and economic calculus is radically different with the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president. A key factor in the business outlook for the U.S. poultry industry changed with the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States. Speaking at the National Chicken Council Annual Conference just days before the 2016 election, political analyst Charlie Cook said Donald Trump had no chance of being elected president of the United States and Hillary Clinton was the presumptive president elect. The political, regulatory and economic calculus is now radically different. NCC Chairman Mike Popowycz is hopeful that meaningful immigration reform will occur in 2017. From the same podium, Ambassador William J. Burns, former deputy secretary of state in the Obama administration, expounded on America's enshrined doctrines of multilateral global diplomacy and trade. If Trump has his way, it would shatter much of the globalist dogma ushered in by the Reagan administration and continued in succeeding ones. On the economy, the dean and professor of International Business at the Tuck School at Dartmouth College and former member of the Council of Economic www.WATTAgNet.com ❙ January 2017 mikeledray | BigStockPhoto.com BY GARY THORNTON
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