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Allen Featherstone

Finance, Macroeconomics, Production Economics

Department Head, Professor, and Director of Master in Agribusiness program

Kansas State University

Allen M. Featherstone was appointed at Kansas State in 1986 and now serves as department head. As a leading agriculture finance scholar, he has studied land markets, investment decisions, mergers in the financial services industry, the probability of agricultural loan default and loan loss severity, the influence of taxes on farmland, and alternative federal tax systems. His production economics research has investigated issues such as ground water allocation in irrigated crop production, comparison of returns under alternative tillage systems, the costs of risk, interactions of weather soils, and management on corn yields, analysis of the returns to farm equity and assets, and analysis of the optimizing behavior of Kansas farmers, examining the stability of estimates using duality, and examining the application of a new functional forms for estimating production relationships.

Address	341B Waters Hall Manhattan , KS 66506 Phone: (785) 532-4441 Fax: 785.532.6925
Phone	(785) 532-4441
Fax	785.532.6925
Email	afeather@ksu.edu
Twitter Username	@kstateagecon
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Documents & Presentations by Allen Featherstone

Title	Date	Downloads
Summary of Health Care Costs on Kansas Farm Management Association Farms 2010-2019	October 19, 2020	Publication (644.26 KB)
Current State of US Grain Exports K-State agricultural economist Allen Featherstone offers his perspective on the state of U.S. grain exports, highlighting the growing reliance on China as a customer, and what it suggests about the longer-term outlook for the U.S. agricultural economy. He addressed these topics at K-State's Agricultural Lenders Conference earlier this week.	October 2, 2020	Current State of US Grain Exports - October 2, 2020
The Global Wheat Market Wheat Production Bubble Chart Audio only: click HERE (Click to view interactive chart)	August 24, 2020
Current Trends in Agricultural Lending K-State agricultural economist Allen Featherstone discusses current trends in agricultural lending, especially as impacted by the economic effects of the pandemic...it's the theme of his presentation later today as part of K-State's 2020 Risk and Profit Conference, which will be presented on line and is still taking registrations.	August 10, 2020	Current Trends in Agricultural Lending - August 10, 2020
Analysis of the IHME COVID-19 Forecasting Model - July 28 Update Audio only: click HERE	July 31, 2020	PDF (11.4 MB)
Analysis of the IHME COVID-19 Forecasting Model - July 21 Update Audio only: click HERE	July 23, 2020	PDF (11.38 MB)
Analysis of the IHME COVID-19 Forecasting Model - July 14 Update Audio only: click HERE	July 16, 2020	PDF (11.36 MB)
Analysis of the IHME COVID-19 Forecasting Model - July 7 Update Audio only: click HERE	July 9, 2020	PDF (10.81 MB)
Analysis of the IHME COVID-19 Forecasting Model - June 30 Update Audio only: click HERE	July 1, 2020	PDF (10.79 MB)
Supply and Future Supply Potential in the Americas Audio only: click HERE	June 25, 2020