Let me add my two cents on this as someone in farm country.
The Northeast Dairy Compact was a big government program to help the dairy farmers of NY and New England fight off foreign competition. From Wisconsin. Over the many years of its existence it was seen as the sole savior of farming in Vermont. The program was finally killed in the fall of 2001.
Has dairy farming ended in Vermont? No. Have farmers had to change their business model? Of course. Most farms now have to be larger to survive (although the greenies are fighting the farmers now). Many farmers here had switched to horse farming even during the years of the compact and I think that trend has probably accelerated now.
Imagine that. People adjusting, successfully, to market changes.
Nooooo, it can't be. Adjustments!?...markets!?...working!? It's a head scratcher, ain't it?