Partnering Organization: AgWest Farm Credit
Project Summary: The past couple of years have illuminated the impacts that the increasing globalization of the supply chain has had on American Agricultural producers. Understanding the economic impacts around this issue specific to our customer-members is important to AgWest FCS. Students should pick a piece of the specific piece of the supply chain in an Agricultural industry and study how increased globalization specifically impacts an operation.
Project Goals:
Resources for Understanding International and National Supply Chains
Supply Chain Resources Related to Dairy
Data
USDA Economic Research Service. (2023). Dairy data. (Data regarding the production and supply of dairy within the U.S.) Here is a link to that resource.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2023). Milk and dairy products. (Data regarding the global production and supply of dairy). Here is a link to that resource.
Scholarly Resources
Christiansen, S. (2020). The key supply chain link. Dairy Industries International, 85(12), 18–19. Here is a link to the article.
Loux, W. (2022). Supply Chain Disruptions: Impact and outlook for U.S. dairy exports. Here is a link to the article.
Mor, R.S., Bhardwaj, A., & Singh, S. (2018). Benchmarking the interactions among performance indicators in dairy supply chain. Benchmarking : an International Journal, 25(9), 3858–3881. Here is a link to the article.
Paska, l., Grinchuk, Y., & Artimonova, I. (2020). Organizational and economic relations in the chain supply of milk and dairy products. Ekonomìka Ta Upravlìnnâ APK, 2(2(159)), 73–82. Here is a link to the article.
Supply Chain Resources Related to Wheat
Data
USDA Economic Research Service. (2023). Wheat overview. This resource provides information on national and international wheat production and supply chains. Here is a link to that resource.
USDA. (2023). Wheat sector at a glance. More data on wheat production from the USDA. Here is a link to that resource.
Scholarly Resources
Agricultural Market Information System. (2023). Wheat markets at a glance. This international G20 organization provides resources regarding the global wheat markets. Data can be found via this link.
Halecki, W. & Bedla, D. (2022). Global wheat production and threats to supply chains in a volatile climate change and energy crisis. Resources (Basel), 11(12).This recently published article provides information pertaining to global wheat supply chains as effected by the war in Ukraine. Here is a link to the article.
Sage, J.L. & Freight Policy Transportation Institute/Washington State Department of Transportation. (2016). Wheat supply chain data collection. This article provides wheat supply chain data (as it mostly pertains to Washington State). Here is a link to the article.
Supply Chain Resources Related to Wine
Data
USDA. (2022). U.S. wine, beer and spirits exports in 2021. (Data regarding wine exports can be found at this link).
Scholarly Resources
Adamashvili, N. State, R., Tricase, C., & Fiore, M. (2021). Blockchain-Based wine supply chain for the industry advancement. Sustainability 13(23), Link to this article in the Libraries' catalog.
Badenhorst-Weiss, & Naudé, R. T. (2020). The challenges behind producing a bottle of wine : supply chain risks. Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management, 14(1), 1–15. Link to this article in the Libraries' catalog.
Dapiran, G.P., & Estampe, D. (2010). The Wine Supply Chain. Supply Chain Forum, 11(1), 2–3. Link to this article in the Libraries' catalog.
Flint, D.J. (2016). Contemporary wine marketing and supply chain management : a global perspective. Palgrave Macmillan.(This is a physical book located at the Owen Library. Here is a link to the book in the Libraries' catalog).
Moccia, L. (2013). Operational research in the wine supply chain. Information Systems and Operational Research, 51(2), 53–63. Link to this article in the Libraries' catalog.
Think about the keywords that you will be using for your searches. Using a simple term like "supply chain" might get you too many erroneous search results. Therefore, you'll want to develop a search strategy to combine your keywords to make useful search strings.
To learn more about developing keywords and search strings check out this link.
Note: The following keywords and search strings are just some quick ideas, you may come up with better keywords and search strings yourselves.
If you have any question, please email me.
Developing Keywords for the Questions that Need to be Investigated (As per Project Description)
This project asks a lot of different question. Below are some keywords and search statements that may help you answer these questions.
To learn more about developing keywords and search strings check out this link.
Note: The following keywords and search strings are just some quick ideas, you may come up with better keywords and search strings yourselves.
Some Potential Keywords that May be Helpful:
"supply chain*" OR "logistic* network*" OR "supply network*"
globalization* OR "global integration" OR "International trad*"
"economic impact*" OR "market* impact*" OR "economic* consequence*" OR "economic* effect*" OR "economic* implication*" OR "economic* repercussion*" OR "commercial impact*"
agri* OR farm*
dairy
wheat
wine
Some Examples of Keyword Searches:
wine*
AND
"supply chain*" OR "logistic* network*" OR "supply network*"*
Here is that search in the WSU Libraries' catalog
Here is that search in Web of Science
*wheat*
AND
"supply chain*" OR "logistic* network*" OR "supply network*"
Here is that search in the WSU Libraries' catalog
Here is that search in Web of Science
"supply chain*" OR "logistic* network*" OR "supply network*"
AND
globalization* OR "global integration" OR "International trad*"
AND
dairy
Here is that search in the WSU Libraries' catalog
Here is that search in Web of Science
"economic impact*" OR "market* impact*" OR "economic* consequence*" OR "economic* effect*" OR "economic* implication*" OR "economic* repercussion*" OR "commercial impact*"
AND
"supply chain*" OR "logistic* network*" OR "supply network*"
AND
wine* OR dairy OR *wheat*
Here is that search in the WSU Libraries' catalog
Here is that search in Web of Science
Note: Try different keyword combinations yourself. Also, try changing the search parameters (for example, try a "Any Field" search in place of a "Title" search and vice versa).
You will probably also have to locate scholarly and peer-reviewed research. Below are a few scholarly databases that will be particularly helpful.
Includes Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Science Citation indexes, Journal Citation Reports, BIOSIS Previews, BIOSIS Citation Index, Derwent Innovations patent searching, MEDLINE, and Zoological Record. Updated weekly.
Search It is the WSU library catalog. You can search among many different types of resources and order materials from other institutions if they are not immediately available through WSU. You will find the most resources in Search It but you will also find the most noise
AGRICOLA contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library.
Helpful Industry Resources
For more in-depth information regarding corporate research, take a look at the Company Research Library Guide.
Newspaper and Trade Publications
See also WSU News and Newspaper Research Guide.