AGRICULTURAL PRICES RECEIVED
Prices Received – Mountain Region States and United States: September 2017 with Comparisons State September 2016 August 2017 September 2017 Barley, All (dollars per bushel) (dollars per bushel) (dollars per bushel) Colorado ............................. 5.26 4.46 4.53 Montana .............................. 5.16 4.63 4.02 Wyoming ............................ (D) 4.68 (D) United States ....................... 4.54 4.52 4.32 Corn Colorado ............................. 3.31 3.26 3.37 United States ....................... 3.22 3.27 3.27 Wheat, All Arizona ............................... (D) (D) (S) Colorado ............................. 2.74 3.63 3.42 Montana .............................. 4.04 5.13 5.14 United States ....................... 3.48 4.83 4.65 Cotton, Upland (dollars per pound) (dollars per pound) (dollars per pound) Arizona ............................... (D) (S) (D) United States ....................... 0.670 0.647 0.638 Hay, Alfalfa (dollars per ton) (dollars per ton) (dollars per ton) Arizona ............................... 140.00 165.00 160.00 Colorado ............................. 145.00 165.00 165.00 Montana .............................. 135.00 145.00 145.00 New Mexico ....................... 165.00 175.00 175.00 Utah .................................... 130.00 125.00 135.00 Wyoming ............................ 120.00 135.00 140.00 United States ....................... 136.00 147.00 149.00 Hay, Other Arizona ............................... 160.00 175.00 170.00 Colorado ............................. 155.00 175.00 175.00 Montana .............................. 125.00 140.00 140.00 New Mexico ....................... 130.00 160.00 160.00 Utah .................................... 110.00 110.00 120.00 Wyoming ............................ 110.00 125.00 130.00 United States ....................... 113.00 116.00 113.00 Milk, All (dollars per hundredweight) (dollars per hundredweight) (dollars per hundredweight) Arizona ............................... 16.50 17.70 17.30 Colorado ............................. 17.90 18.30 18.30 New Mexico ....................... 16.80 16.80 16.60 Utah .................................... 17.30 17.60 17.80 United States ....................... 17.40 18.00 17.80 (D) Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual operations. (S) Insufficient number of reports to establish an estimate.
UNITED STATES
September Prices Received Index Decreased 1.7 Percent
The September Prices Received Index (Agricultural Production), at 91.8, decreased 1.7 percent from August 2017. At 88.6, the Crop Production Index increased 1.3 percent. The Livestock Production Index, at 94.8, decreased 3.8 percent. Producers received lower prices for cattle, hogs, and broilers but higher prices for market eggs, lettuce, and apples. Compared with a year earlier, the Prices Received Index increased 6.3 percent. The Crop Production Index increased 5.7 percent and the Livestock Production Index is up 7.0 percent from September 2016. In addition to prices, the indexes are influenced by the volume change of commodities producers market. Increased monthly movement of soybeans, potatoes, corn, and apples offset the decreased marketing of cattle, wheat, cotton, and peaches. The Food Commodities Index, at 96.3, decreased 1.7 percent from the previous month but increased 7.5 percent from September 2016.
September Prices Paid Index Up 0.3 Percent
The September Prices Paid Index for Commodities and Services, Interest, Taxes, and Farm Wage Rates (PPITW), at 106.7, is up 0.3 percent from August 2017 and 3.1 percent from September 2016. Higher prices in September for feeder cattle, diesel, LP gas, and gasoline more than offset lower prices for herbicides, nitrogen, feeder pigs, and feed concentrates.
For a full copy of the Agricultural Prices report please visit www.nass.usda.gov. For state specific questions please contact:
Arizona – Dave DeWalt 1-800-645-7286 Colorado – William R. Meyer 1-800-392-3202 Montana – Eric Sommer 1-800-835-2612 New Mexico – Longino Bustillos 1-800-530-8810 Utah – John Hilton 1-800-747-8522 Wyoming – Rhonda Brandt 1-800-892-1660
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New Intermountain Healthcare Life Flight Cessna Citation/CJ4 jet will be used primarily to retrieve organs for transplantation in the Intermountain West.
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Overall, this jet will help increase access to organs throughout the United States, reduce the cost of accessing those organs, and help us better serve patients.”
— Kent Johnson, director of aviation operations for Intermountain Life Flight
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH , USA , October 31, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Organ transplantation in Utah and in the Intermountain West is getting a major boost thanks to a new partnership between Intermountain Healthcare’s Life Flight air ambulance and rescue service and Intermountain Donor Services, the organ procurement agency that serves the region.
Intermountain Life Flight officials announced on Monday the new alliance and unveiled their newest resource – a Cessna Citation/CJ4 jet that will be used primarily to retrieve organs for transplantation in the Intermountain West. This is the first-of-its-kind high-speed aircraft in Utah that will be used for this purpose.
The CJ4 aircraft is the first jet in Intermountain Life Flight’s fleet of fixed wing aircraft, which also includes three turboprop Beechcraft King Air airplanes and six medical helicopters.
This aircraft will primarily be used by Intermountain Life Flight to more effectively and efficiently retrieve organs for Intermountain Donor Services for transplantation, according to Kent Johnson, director of aviation operations for Intermountain Life Flight, one of the premier air ambulance services in the nation.
“With the Citation CJ4 we’re able to enhance and expand Intermountain Donor Services access to organs, retrieve organs more quickly, reduce overall costs for them, and provide an aircraft that has state-of-the-art avionics and safety features,” says Johnson.
The CJ4 jet, which is expected to fly about 100 organ-retrieval missions for Intermountain Donor Services this year, will also be used for patient transports of over 300 miles from Salt Lake City, and will also serve as a backup to Intermountain Life Flight’s Beechcraft King Airs.
"Every minute an organ is outside of a donor's body it has an impact on the potential of that organ transplant working as it should," said Richard Gilroy, MD, medical director of the liver transplant program at Intermountain Medical Center.
That's why the aircraft is critically important in retrieving organs while it's still possible they can help people.
The CJ4 jet provides higher speed than the turboprop Beechcraft (500 mph vs. 310 mph), increased range without fueling (2,100 miles versus 1,200 miles), fly at higher altitudes (45,000 feet versus 35,000 feet), which allows smoother flight above weather, and a less noisy environment.
“Overall, this jet will help increase access to organs throughout the United States, reduce the cost of accessing those organs, and help us better serve patients outside Utah who need patient care in Salt Lake City,” Johnson added.
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A team of Utah, Spanish, and British paleontologists have just described and named a new dinosaur, Mierasaurus bobyoungi, in the scientific journal “Scientific Reports,” which is part of the prestigious Nature Group. This Utah dinosaur is both a new genus and species of sauropod dinosaur (colloquially known as “long-necks”) that emigrated between approximately 140 and 150 million years ago from what is now Europe. Mierasaurus is the first of its group, known as Turiasauria, to be found in North America, though the researchers also recognized that another recently discovered Utah dinosaur, Moabosaurus, belongs to the group as well. The researchers believe that this new group of European invaders replaced the sauropods whose fossils are found in underlying and older bone beds in Utah and hypothesize that they may have arrived before the Atlantic Ocean fully separated Europe from North America.
The Mierasaurus bobyoungi specimen is the most complete individual sauropod ever found from the Cretaceous geologic period. Paleontologist with the Utah Geological Survey excavated the new discovery at a site on U.S. Bureau of Land Management lands northeast of Moab in Grand County. They knew they had discovered a new species but according to State Paleontologist Dr. James Kirkland, “it was not until we worked with Spanish paleontologist Rafael Royo-Torres, that anyone recognized it as belonging to a distinct group of European sauropods.”
The paleontologists named the genus, Mierasaurus, for the Spanish cartographer and scientist D. Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713-1785). Miera was the scientific leader of the 1776 Domínguez-Escalante Expedition, which similar to the new dinosaur was the first known arrival of a European scientist into what is now the state of Utah. With this expedition, Miera made the first map of the territory. The name of the species, bobyoungi, is dedicated to the American geologist Robert Young, who conducted the first comprehensive work on the Early Cretaceous age geology of the Colorado Plateau, where Mierasaurus was discovered.
Article link: http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-14677-2
Photos: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2a2HPfYLYHYQWpkUy1aZ0U0Zms?usp=sharing
More detailed information and images can be found in the attached documents.
U.S. Contacts:
James I. Kirkland
Utah Geological Survey
Office- (801) 537-3307, cell- (801) 870-2874, jameskirkland@utah. gov
John R. Foster:
Museum of Moab
(435) 259-7985, director@moabmuseum.org
Spanish Contacts:
Rafael Royo-Torres, Alberto Cobos, & Luis Alcalá
Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis/Museo Aragonés de Paleontología
royo@dinopolis.com, cobos@dinopolis.com, alcala@dinopolis.com
British Contact:
Paul Upchurch
Department of Earth Sciences, University College London
