My impression (partly from reading Zephyr Teachout's excellent book Break Em Up) is that a farmer cooperative would not find the big grocery stores willing to carry their products. Those stores are intimidated by whichever of the big-3 processors is active in their region. Selling at a farmers market or mom & pop store may be totally feasible, but the grower had better be sure that was a long-term solution, because the big processor will blackball them for trying.
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