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Government programs influencing equilibrium

Government programs assuring farmers minimum legal price floors which surpass equilibrium market prices will outcome: (1) Cheaper food for consumers. (2) Scarcities of food and the potential for famine. (3) Surplus demand in food markets. (4) Maximum equilibrium prices. (5) Excess food at the least price.

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