Producer marketing boards in Canada and Israel are used as substitutes/adjuncts to market mechanisms in regulating the production and sale of agricultural commodities. Producer dominance of agencies regulating marketing boards results in a lack of societal control over their use of wide ranging monopoly powers. Changes in board membership and increased public accountability may lead to improved societal control.
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