&gt; The intent of the boards is not to protect against international compeition<p>The parent to my comment implied otherwise by bringing up the U.S. dairy market.<p>&gt; but rather to create a floor price for agricultural goods<p>Why would we want that? Poor people need cheap food (well, we all could use cheap food). We don&#x27;t have a national policy of &#x27;floor prices&#x27; on other (non-vice) goods and services, do we?