The bill was widely believed to be aimed at making it more difficult for Farmland Dairies, a New Jersey company, to operate in New York.

Farmland Dairies was granted a license to sell milk in New York last year after it successfully challenged the state's milk licensing laws in court.

This government-enforced cartel might have survived indefinitely were it not for Farmland Dairies of New Jersey.

"In almost every instance, we've actually had to reduce our initial prices in order to meet the competition," said Marc Goldman, the president of Farmland Dairies.

The court ruled that in the case of Farmland Dairies, the state's application of its licensing law was unconstitutional.

His successor might eventually have reversed the decision against New Jersey's Farmland Dairy.

"They're private property," said Marc Goldman, president of Farmland Dairies in Wallington, whose company "loses" more than 200,000 crates each year.

Now she wears a technician's white laboratory coat as she tests milk samples for bacteria and fat at Farmland Dairies.

Marc Goldman, for instance, president of Farmland Dairies in Wallington, is an "Everything Out."

Farmland Dairy, the maverick company that took the dealers' cartel to court, has mobilized to challenge the farmers' cartel as well.