US farmer tips limited change, despite tense presidential race

Andrew Marshall
Updated November 7 2016 - 1:02pm, first published 1:00pm
The prospect of Donald Trump winning the US Presidential election seems an extraordinary prospect to Californian dairy farmer,  Stephen Maddox, but he believes checks and balances in the US constitution would keep a successful Trump Republican administration on a fairly conventional course.
The prospect of Donald Trump winning the US Presidential election seems an extraordinary prospect to Californian dairy farmer, Stephen Maddox, but he believes checks and balances in the US constitution would keep a successful Trump Republican administration on a fairly conventional course.

He is more than 15,000 kilometres from home, but US dairy farmer Stephen Maddox can still feel an uneasy tension in the air in Australia and New Zealand as the American presidential race comes down to the wire.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew Marshall

National agribusiness writer

Andrew Marshall is the group agribusiness writer for ACM's state agricultural weeklies and websites. He is a former editor at The Land and has worked in various Rural Press group roles in Canberra, North Richmond (NSW) and Toowoomba (Qld).

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