{"url_path":"/sec/cik-0001012493/8-k/2026-01-09/item-5-02","section_key":"item-5-02","section_title":"Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.**","topic":"sec","document":{"doc_type":"8-K","doc_date":"2026-01-09","source_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1012493/0001104659-26-002461-index.html","accession_number":"0001104659-26-002461","cik":"0001012493","ticker":null,"issuer_name":"FERRELLGAS PARTNERS FINANCE CORP","edgar_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1012493/0001104659-26-002461-index.html","primary_entity_key":"0001012493","primary_entity_name":"FERRELLGAS PARTNERS FINANCE CORP"},"word_count":466,"has_tables":true,"body_markdown":"**Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.**\n\nOn January 6, 2026, Scott I. Asner was appointed to the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Ferrellgas, Inc., the general partner (the “General Partner”) of Ferrellgas Partners, L.P. and Ferrellgas, L.P., effective immediately.\n\nMr. Asner is a longstanding investment manager and a founding principal of Eighteen Capital Group, a fully integrated real estate investment platform. He has more than 30 years of experience managing investments, with a primary focus on multifamily real estate. As Co-CEO of Eighteen Capital Group, Mr. Asner oversaw the firm’s financial and legal operations, including financial analysis of investments, oversight of financing activities, and capital structuring. Before founding Eighteen Capital Group, Mr. Asner practiced law for 20 years. Mr. Asner earned his Bachelor of Science in Economics, majoring in actuarial science, from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. He graduated *magna cum laude*, receiving the Herbert S. Steuer Memorial Prize for outstanding scholarship and leadership in his class. He went on to earn his Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School in 1975. Mr. Asner has served on several for-profit and nonprofit boards and is the former chairman of Kaw Valley Behavioral Health Care Center.\n\nMr. Asner was not selected as a director pursuant to any arrangement or understanding between Mr. Asner and any other person. The Board has not yet made any determinations regarding Mr. Asner’s potential service on any committees of the Board.\n\nThere is no transaction, nor is there any currently proposed transaction, which requires disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K in connection with Mr. Asner’s appointment to the Board.\n\nMr. Asner will participate in the customary compensation and indemnification arrangements for members of the Board as described in the registrants’ Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on October 15, 2025.\n\n​\n\n**SIGNATURES**\n\nPursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, each registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n**FERRELLGAS PARTNERS, L.P.**\n\n​\n\n*By:*\n\n*Ferrellgas, Inc., its general partner*\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\nDate: January 9, 2026\n\n*By:*\n\n*/s/*Tamria A. Zertuche\n\n​\n\n​\n\nChief Executive Officer and President\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n**FERRELLGAS PARTNERS FINANCE CORP.**\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\nDate: January 9, 2026\n\n*By:*\n\n*/s/*Tamria A. Zertuche\n\n​\n\n​\n\nChief Executive Officer and President\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n**FERRELLGAS, L.P.**\n\n​\n\n*By:*\n\n*Ferrellgas, Inc., its general partner*\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\nDate: January 9, 2026\n\n*By:*\n\n*/s/*Tamria A. Zertuche\n\n​\n\n​\n\nChief Executive Officer and President\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\n**FERRELLGAS FINANCE CORP.**\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​\n\nDate: January 9, 2026\n\n*By:*\n\n*/s/*Tamria A. Zertuche\n\n​\n\n​\n\nChief Executive Officer and President\n\n​\n\n​\n\n​"}