A planned work boycott by immigrant employees had an impact on the meat-packing sector.Immigration policy has been a contentious issue for years, but agriculture’s concerns about it have only heightened since the Trump administration took office promising to implement a hardline stance. While there have been no changes to date in that policy, the expectation of such and the rancorous ongoing debate are already having some impact in the economy with yesterday as an example. A social media-organized protest and work boycott called “A Day Without Immigrants” saw large numbers of immigrant workers absent from their jobs. Those boycotting work included packing plant employees, which slowed meat production. The estimated daily kill totals were 96...