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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.

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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
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Productivity of KFMA Members between 1993 and 2011 August 28, 2015
Productivity of KFMA Members between 1993 and 2011 August 28, 2015
Ag Lenders Survey (Spring, 2015) June 4, 2015
Ag Lenders Survey (Fall, 2014) January 28, 2015
Ag Lenders Survey (Fall, 2015) January 1, 2015
Ag Lenders Survey (Spring, 2014) May 30, 2014
Ag Lenders Survey (Spring, 2013) June 4, 2013
Credit Quality of Kansas Farms August 23, 2011
Kansas Farmland Sales and Characteristics: 1980-2003 August 1, 2005
1. Macroeconomic Instability: To Be Continued?