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E-Mail IMAGE: The clinical trial is the first step toward the team s overall goal: Developing a platform that combines radiotherapy with immunotherapy, drugs that help a patient s own immune system fight off. view more Credit: Creative commons via Pxhere A potential new weapon against cancer is entering the first phase of clinical trials thanks to a collaboration between Spectrum Health, the Lansing-based company Niowave and Michigan State University. MSU s Kurt Zinn, a professor of biomedical engineering, radiology and small animal clinical sciences, is leading the effort to validate an innovative radiotherapy as part of a safe, more effective and potentially less costly treatment for bladder cancer. ....
Although many headlines focus on a declining farm income in 2021, the net farm income outlook is still well-above average and offers a positive story for 2021, says Carrie Litkowski, economist at USDA’s Economic Research Service of the USDA. USDA currently expects net cash income to finish 2020 at $136.2 billion, but to fall to $128.3 billion in 2021. USDA expects net farm income, which includes the value of inventory changes, to decrease $9.8 billion (8.%1) to $111.4 billion in 2021. Despite this decline, 2021 net farm income would still be 21% above its 2000-19 average of $92.1 billion. While speaking at the USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum on Feb. 19, Litkowski outlines that government payments are forecast to have more than doubled in 2020, to a record level of $46 billion. This increase was due in large part to supplemental and ad hoc disaster assistance payments to farmers for COVID-19 relief. In 2021 government payments are forecast to decline 45% in nominal dollar ....
Morning Market Review for Feb. 22, 2021 farmprogress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from farmprogress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Increasing incomes and lower interest rates helping farmers tap into strong farmland values. At the onset of the pandemic crisis, and as conditions really were becoming problematic in April, there was an expectation that the ag sector actually would see a decline in land values. Instead, that has not been the case as farmland values have held and even increased, says Nate Kauffman, vice president and Omaha branch executive with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. While speaking at the USDA’s Agricultural Outlook Forum on Feb. 19, Kauffman shares, “If anything, we have seen an increase in land values lately and maybe an expectation there is going to be a modest increase between in 2021.” ....