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.

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Phone: 785.532.4441
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Documents & Presentations by Allen Featherstone
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23 - Strengthening Georgia’s Wheat Supply Chain: Quality Assessment and Strategies for Reducing Import Dependence August 1, 2025
24 - Trade Facilitation and Simulated Impacts of US-China Tariffs on Soybeans, Beef, and Sorghum August 1, 2025
Kansas Financial Situation - A Distributional Analysis

Presented at AAEA-WAEA Joint Meeting. Denver, CO. 

July 29, 2025
Property Tax Calculations in Kansas

Breakout Session 7

October 10, 2024
17 - Understanding Wheat Basis in Kansas August 1, 2024
Agricultural Net Income Situation for Property Tax Calculations-Webinar Slides and Recording

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April 17, 2024
4 - Agricultural Finance Situation August 1, 2023
Agricultural Finance Situation

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

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August 1, 2023
12 - Global Livestock Production and Trade August 1, 2023
Allen Featherstone Named a Distinguished Professor

Allen Featherstone, K-State agricultural economics professor and department head, discusses being named a distinguished professor at K-State. He mentions important mentors and explains significant moments in his career.

May 8, 2023