Jennifer Ifft is an Associate Professor and Extension Specialist in Agricultural Policy at Kansas State University. She runs a research and extension program that deals with policy and regulatory issues impacting U.S. and Kansas agriculture.  Jennifer has published research on topics like how farm programs and regulations affect farmland values, what influences farmland value, farm labor and management, and crop insurance and farm debt.  
 
Before joining Kansas State, Jennifer was an assistant professor at Cornell University and worked with the USDA Economic Research Service. She has a PhD from UC Berkeley, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She grew up on her family’s farm in central Illinois.