Exhibit 99

For immediate release

Contact: Ryan VanWinkle, Investor Relations, 816-792-7998


                              Ferrellgas Announces
                   Closing of $50 Million Senior Note Offering


     Liberty,  MO (June  10,  2004)--  Ferrellgas  Partners,  L.P.  (NYSE:  FGP)
announced  today that it,  along  with its  wholly-owned  financing  subsidiary,
Ferrellgas  Partners Finance Corp., has completed the public sale of $50 million
in aggregate principal amount of 8-3/4% senior notes due 2012. Net proceeds from
the issuance of $51.1  million,  based on an offering  price of 103.25% per note
and after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions,  were used to reduce
bank credit facility borrowings of its operating partnership, Ferrellgas, L.P.

     The notes constitute a further issuance of the 8-3/4% senior notes due 2012
first issued on September  24, 2002 in the  aggregate  principal  amount of $170
million and subsequently  issued on December 18, 2002 in the aggregate principal
amount of $48 million and form a single  class and series with those  previously
issued notes.

     Ferrellgas  Partners,  L.P., through its operating  partnership,  currently
serves more than one  million  customers  in 50 states,  Puerto  Rico,  the U.S.
Virgin Islands and Canada.  Ferrellgas employees indirectly own approximately 18
million  common units of the  partnership  through an employee  stock  ownership
plan.