Allan W. Gray

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1978

Agricultural Economics and Policy Agricultural Innovations and Practices Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets Cooperative Studies and Economics Agricultural risk and resilience

Publications

144

Citations

986

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 1978

Research summary

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Allan W. Gray works in agricultural economics, focusing on the business and management side of food and agriculture, such as farm business strategy, agribusiness supply chains, cooperatives, and food industry trends. Much of his recent published work involves case studies of farms and food companies, strategic planning frameworks for agribusiness, and broader discussions of trends affecting food and biofuel supply chains.

Agricultural economics and farm business strategyAgribusiness and food supply chain managementCooperatives in agricultureStrategic planning frameworks for food chainsTrends in food and agribusiness markets

Publication output was low but steady from 2017-2019, spiked sharply in 2020 (likely due to a concentrated book project), then dropped to near zero in most subsequent years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.8/year recently

Recent publications

A Clustering Approach to Understanding Farmers’ Success Strategies
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics · 2020
Food and agribusiness in 2030: a roadmap
2020
Mantiqueira: innovating and disrupting in the egg business
The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review · 2020
Planejamento e gestão estratégica com simplicidade
GV executivo \b (Impresso)/GV Executivo · 2020
CHAPTER 8: The world after Covid-19
2020
CHAPTER 7: The role of cooperatives in the new world
2020
CHAPTER 4: 20 trends in food and beverage marketing
2020
CHAPTER 3: The participants of the food chains: characteristics and trends
2020
Front Matter
2020
CHAPTER 2: The new macro-environment for food, agribusiness and biofuels chains
2020
CHAPTER 5: Building sustainability in a food chain
2020
CHAPTER 1: Creating a strategic plan for a food chain: the ChainPlan method (framework)
2020
CHAPTER 6: Where food consumers will be in the future?
2020
Back Matter
2020
Strategic Planning and Management of Food and Agribusiness Chains: The ChainPlan Method (Framework)
Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México) · 2020

Publishes in

The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review×4
AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)×2
Review of Business Management×1
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy×1
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics×1

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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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