Answer to Question #54855 in Microeconomics for Manik Bansal

Question

U.S. Government price supports for milk led to an unceasing surplus of milk. In an effort to reduce the surplus about a decade ago, Congress offered to pay dairy farmers to slaughter cows. Use two diagrams, one for the milk market and one for the meat market, to illustrate how this policy should have affected the of meat. (Assume that meat is sold in an unregulated market.)