Allen Featherstone

Dr. Allen Featherstone is Department Head, Professor, and Director of the Master of Agribusiness program at Kansas State University. A University Distinguished Professor, he developed the nation's first distance education graduate agribusiness program and created the Comparative Food and Agriculture Systems course with international instructors.

Education:

• B.S., Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin–River Falls, 1982
• B.S., Economics, University of Wisconsin–River Falls, 1982
• M.S., Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, 1984
• Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, 1986

Research expertise includes agricultural land markets, investment decisions, financial services mergers, loan default analysis, tax policy impacts, groundwater allocation, tillage systems, and optimizing farm management. Teaches courses in agribusiness finance, risk management, and international food systems.