Predicting agriculture policies under a Trump administration is a tough task, since the president-elect has no track record on legislature.

Luckily, his 65-person agricultural advisory committee team, announced in August, is comprised largely of what Politico calls "The Republican farm policy establishment," making it easier to glean what a Trump administration may have in store for ag policies for the next four years.

Ag Advisory Committee Talking Points

A copy of a document detailing Trump's Ag Advisory Committee talking points, obtained by Politico, suggests a shift back to conventional agriculture and deregulation under the new administration.

The document says a Trump cabinet will "defend American agriculture against its critics, particularly those who have never grown or produced anything beyond a backyard tomato plant."

Other content in the talking points suggests American citizens can expect much from the Trump administration, including heavy participation in writing the next Farm Bill (scheduled for 2019), fighting the "good food" movement, and undoing Obama-era agricultural and environmental policies.

One policy the document explicitly mentions is the "unlawful" Waters of the United States rule, which paved the way for the protection of American waterways and wetlands by clarifying which bodies of water are protected by the Clean Water Act. It was enacted by the Obama administration in 2015, and the Trump administration says it will work to repeal the rule, and to choose an EPA administrator who is "friendly to farmers."

Echoing a statement Trump made at a campaign event in Iowa in August of this year, telling family farmers he would "end the EPA intrusion into your family homes and family farms."

Trump's Picks For Ag Secretary

Secretary of Agriculture duties include overseeing America's farming industry, inspecting food quality, and providing income-based food assistance.

The USDA also helps develop international markets for American products, giving the next ag secretary partial responsibility to carry out Mr. Trump's positions on trade.

Trump's picks for ag secretary are described as "Who's Who" of farm policy, many of them former leaders in farm states – seemingly mainstream choices by a candidate who ran on anti-establishment platform.

Here are a few candidates on Trump's shortlist:

Chuck Conner

Conner is former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, replacing Mike Johanns as acting secretary after Johanns retired in 2007.

Conner has worked in Washington for a long time. Prior to his time at the USDA, he was a Special Assistant to the President for Agricultural Trade and Food Assistance, focusing on Farm Bill issues. He was also president of the Corn Refiners Association from 1997 to 2001, and served as Majority and Minority Staff Director for the United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

He's currently the chief executive officer of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, which supported the 2014 Farm Bill and advocated to prevent the mandatory labeling of food products containing biotech ingredients. You can see more of the NCFC's positions here.

Sonny Perdue

Perdue is a former Georgia governor who held that office for two terms, from 2003 - 2011. He is not related to the Perdue chicken producer company, though he grew up on a family farm in Bonaire, Georgia.

Sonny Perdue does tout himself as a small business owner, primarily of Perdue Partners, LLC, an Atlanta-bsaed global trading company that emphasizes the export of U.S. goods. He's also owned a grain elevator business.

Charles Herbster

Chair of Trump's agricultural advisory committee, Herster is the owner of Conklin, which sells pesticide additives (called adjuvents), fertilizers, and motor oils, among other things. He also owns Herbster Angus Farms and farmland in Nebraska and Colorado, for which he received over $577,000 in farm subsidies between 1995 and 2014.

He's a contributor to Monsanto, DuPont, and major agribusiness PAC Ag America.

Ag America has a standard policy agenda, which includes pursuing free-trade agreements "across the globe to open markets for America's agricultural products." As Mother Jones points out, this poses a problem for Trump's outspoken opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which was heavily supported by the agribusiness industry.

Mother Jones reporter Tom Philpott says Herbster told him that he's been getting calls from farmers "concerned trade issues, and that he is assured Trump "is not against trade in any way"-it's "just that he wants trade to be fair."

Sid Miller

Trump's most controversial pick for Ag Secretary is current Texas secretary of agriculture Sid Miller, whose campaign twitter account called Hillary Clinton a "c---" earlier this month. Miller later claimed his twitter account was hacked.

As Texas agricultural commissioner – a position to which he was elected in 2014 - he created the "cupcake amnesty", defending parents' right to send their kids to school with desserts.

Miller also overturned an 11-year ban on deep fryers and soft drinks in Texas schools, saying critics are "missing the point that Texas is simply giving schools the option of reinstalling deep fryers."

"We've been raising big, strapping, healthy young kids here in Texas nearly 200 years," Miller said. "And we don't need Washington, D.C., telling us how to do it."

Other top Republican insiders expect president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Don Villwock, current director of the Indiana Department of Agriculture Ted McKinney, Indiana dairy executive Mike McCloskey, and Kansas governor Sam Brownback to also make the ag secretary shortlist.

Read More:

• Trump Assembles A-Team on Ag Policy (Politico)
• Donald Trump is Picking His Cabinet. Here's a Shortlist. (New York Times)
• Trump Team's Ag Talking Points (Politico)
• Here is the Mysterious High Roller Donal Trump Wants to Put in Charge of Our Food (Mother Jones)