My grandfather had a dairy farm in upstate New York - sometime in the 'teens or 'twenties I think it was - he joined a group of his neighboring dairy farmers who formed a co-op to try to get a better price for their milk. The milk buyers raised their prices to farmers who didn't go along with the co-op and it fell apart. Then the prices went back down to what they had been.
The more things change....
That's a shame.