Kicking off AG week: AG Summit preview
News 11's Samantha Byrd has a preview of the upcoming AG Summit
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - The annual Southwest AG Summit is taking place from February 22nd to 24th At Arizona Western College and we were able to get a preview for it.
The Southwest AG Summit is the desert Southwest’s premier agriculture industry show and is hosted in Yuma annually, with a target audience including those in Arizona, New Mexico, Southern California and Northern Mexico.
In partnership with the University of Arizona, Arizona Western College and Yuma County Farm Bureau, Yuma Fresh Vegetable Association organizers ensure the summit provides current content that growers will directly apply to their present cultural and management practices.
In addition to continuing education opportunities, the Summit provides an opportunity to learn what others are doing in the industry and ways we can all work together.
A vision of the Southwest Agricultural Summit has always been to bring knowledge and innovation to agriculture in the desert regions and continue to make this area known throughout the world for the quality products that are grown here.
The president of the Yuma Fresh Vegetable Association, Mike Pasquinelli, shares what he’s looking forward to most during this week.
“We’re focusing on sustainability and keeping the family farm, the family farm, for generations and so some of the strategies that we’re gonna have, discussing those items is what I’m really looking forward to,” said Pasquinelli.
He says they’ve put on the summit for more than 15 years in order to keep our local AG community informed and educated.
“It’s a networking time that everybody can say ‘Hey I got this problem’ and ‘Hey I got the same problem' and we can come together,” Pasquinelli continued.
He encourages locals in the industry to come out to the summit and register at the door.
“We’re getting updates on research, what we can do for technology, for combatting insects, diseases, things like that,” explained Pasquinelli.
He says they have a great program lined up and you never know what you’re gonna learn.
