price support

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Graham Kerr said he anticipates the government-led stockpile—announced earlier this month and called Project Vault—will prioritize metals that have opaque markets and need price support to underpin new projects.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

To protect millions of livelihoods, the government shields key crops like wheat, rice and dairy with import duties and price support.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025

A backdrop of tight supplies in the U.S. provided further price support, with storage at Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for U.S. crude futures, already at their lowest since July 2022.

From Reuters • Sep. 29, 2023

Developers stayed away because the minimum price support being offered was not high enough.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2023

This increase is due mainly to expenditures for purposes of price stabilization and price support resulting from the war food production program.

From State of the Union Address by Truman, Harry S.