Field demonstrations of new and developing farming equipment dominated the first morning of the Southwest Agriculture Summit Wednesday, with about a dozen devices in various stages of development and marketing going on test runs at Arizona Western College.

Leigh Loughead, agriculture science manager at AWC and the announcer for the demo event, said any implements which take over labor-intensive tasks, like in-row cultivators and precision weeders, were getting a lot of attention from the growers in attendance. (Read More)