Jennifer Ifft

Jennifer Ifft is a Professor and Extension Specialist in Agricultural Policy at Kansas State University, holding the Flinchbaugh Agricultural Policy Chair. Her integrated research and extension program addresses policy and regulatory issues affecting U.S. and Kansas agriculture.

Education:

• B.S. International, Resource and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002)
• M.Phil. Land Economy, University of Cambridge (2003)
• Ph.D. Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California Berkeley (2011)

Her current research focuses on nontraditional finance, crop insurance, farmland markets, and farm labor. She has published extensively on farm program impacts on land values, labor management, and agricultural debt. Prior to K-State, she served at Cornell University and USDA Economic Research Service.