Driving the New York State hop industry to meet demand
Name
962557282-MIT.pdf
Description
Full printable version
Size
9.94 MB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum (MD5)
5bd34a90f2732f17b486b4ba2f1bb3b9
Author(s)
Stempel, Nathan D
Advisor(s)
Alexis H. Bateman.
Date Issued
2016
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
The craft brewing industry in New York State has grown rapidly over the past five years helped in part by New York State legislation called the Farm Brewery Act of 2012. The act imposes agricultural stipulations for breweries desiring to file for a Farm Brewing license. The hop industry will have to grow in kind to meet the Farm Brewery Act requirements. The level of growth that needs to be achieved was determined through the use of system dynamics modeling. Production volumes were calculated based on survey results from brewers and farmers. Currently, the state's hop industry is producing a surplus of hops and will be able to supply short-term brewery growth over the horizon of the next three years. It was discovered, however, that the industry is vulnerable to demand shifts and prudent action should be taken to become resilient to changes in buyer regulations and preferences: increasing the economy of scale and building collaborative relationships through farm clustering will improve the longevity of New York's hop industry.
Description
Thesis: M. Eng. in Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Supply Chain Management Program, 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-97).
Subjects
Supply Chain Management Program.
Engineering Systems Division.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Supply Chain Management Program
Terms of Use
MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.
Persistent DSpace Link
