Minimum dairy pricing policy could expand milk production, affect water quality.

A dairy pricing policy originally proposed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic could have resulted in dairy farmers getting 10 percent more for their products if the policy had been passed, according to a Penn State study.

The research, led by College of Agricultural Sciences researchers and based on a model of livestock production in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, found that this price increase could have led to an approximately 13 percent...