(n.) One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hermitage, a solicitor, and Middleton, an agronomist with extensive experience in Africa , planned to make the 216 hectares (533 acres) of prime farmland their home and business.
(2) However while breeders and agronomists have been utilizing heterosis as a means of improving crop productivity, the biological basis of heterosis remains unknown.
(3) Quinoa growers have "westernized their diets because they have more profits and more income," a Bolivian agronomist involved in the quinoa trade told The Guardian.
(4) We think we can do that with nitrous oxide.” Aiming to combat crop loss as well as pollution Shannon Gomes is an agronomist in Decora, Iowa - corn country.
(5) As a corporate agribusiness we implemented 2 models: 1) We had a team of agronomists working with farmers on land preparation, pre-planting herbicides, planting and basal fertilizer application until harvest to ensure that chemicals were used in acceptable quantities.
(6) Photograph: SwamFarm This is the aim of SwarmFarm, a company that grew from the desire of Andrew and Jocie Bate, grain growers from central Queensland, and the agronomist and horticulturalist Neville Crook to use latest technology to enhance farming productivity.
(7) A one semester course (54 hours) was given to 22 students of the 7th semester of Agronomy and two Ecuatorian agronomists (with AID scholarships).
(8) Local agronomists and retailers have advised farmers for years to apply more nitrogen to drive up yields, and some corn farmers spend as much as $200 per acre on fertilizer.
(9) Therefore, the improvement obtained on the bean-grain quality will be measured through the interaction established among the different disciplines, such as geneticists, agronomists and scientists in food science and nutrition.
(10) Every kilogram of beef we consume, according to research by the agronomists David Pimental and Robert Goodland, requires around 100,000 litres of water.
(11) It sends farmers and agronomists daily email updates and allows them to retroactively explore field histories.
(12) But then again, there is not much about the past nine weeks that either the 63-year-old agronomist or his 27-year-old daughter could have predicted in a trip that saw a "real Devon country girl" turned into the public face of Greenpeace's Arctic 30 campaign.
(13) We only have five years to achieve clean water and safe toilets for all Read more Alipio Canahua, an agronomist working with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), says that the ancient agricultural system, which could date back 3,000 years, actually creates its own microclimate.
(14) The bulk of its grants for agriculture are given to organisations in the US and Europe,” said agronomist Henk Hobbelink, a co-founder of Grain.
(15) Hugh Mowat, M&S Agronomist, said: "This new technology is a win-win for our customers – not only will their strawberries taste better for longer, but we really hope it will help them to reduce their food waste as they no longer need to worry about eating their strawberries as soon as they buy them."
(16) Alain Rival, senior agronomist and research director at Cirad, says: “The first thing is to transform RSPO Principles and Criteria into law, then put enough resources to ensure enforcement of these laws on the ground.
(17) This year, the company launched the first commercial rendition of Adapt-N, with farmers and agronomists in 25 states using the tool to manage tens of thousands of acres of corn.
(18) No pets, no kids, no flights: how readers are reducing their carbon footprint Read more “The commodities most harmed by climate change will be those which cannot adapt, like the olive grove or the vineyard,” said Ana Iglesias, agronomist engineer at the Technical University of Madrid and one of the Spanish researchers who contributed to the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) report.
(19) In conclusion, the program is an important contribution to the education of agronomists in a new conception of their role in regard to improvement of the nutritional status and quality of life of the rural population.
(20) We are just entering our second harvest using the biodigester, but in the first year our calculations show that the system reduced the levels of contamination by 81.3%”, says Marvin Mairena, Sebastián’s younger brother and the co-operative’s agronomist.
Agronomy
Definition:
(n.) The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The partnership builds on committments made by agriculture ministers from the G20 nations in 2011 to co-ordinate worldwide research efforts in wheat genetics, genomics, physiology, breeding and agronomy.
(2) Infrared scanners on board a satellite are used for observation of cloud cover; airborne infrared scanners are used for forest fire detection, heat budget of soils, detecting insect attack, diseases, air pollution damage, water stress, salinity stress on vegetation, only to cite some main applications relevant to agronomy.
(3) A 26-m bore was installed in November of 1988 at a site of the Purdue University Agronomy Research Center.
(4) An agronomy station has been set up to carry out trials and tests of crop varieties that might be adapted to the region.
(5) A one semester course (54 hours) was given to 22 students of the 7th semester of Agronomy and two Ecuatorian agronomists (with AID scholarships).
(6) The aim of this study carried out in a soil of the experimental station of the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Bs.
(7) Since some time, the non-isotopic labelling is allowing to contemplate a widespread diagnostic use of it in daily medical, veterinary and agronomy practice.
(8) Crop yields are plateauing across the board in Britain," said Stuart Knight, director of crops and agronomy at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany and lead author of a new government study of the phenomenon.
(9) According to four different genetic models, the genetic patterns of 8 agronomy traits were analysed by using the data of 24 generations which included positive and negative cross of 81008 x Tower, both of the varieties are of good quality.
(10) The purpose of this study was to evaluate a set of teaching materials on food, nutrition and agriculture, adapted at the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA), University of Chile, within the scope of a project with AID and the School of Agronomy of the Chilean Catholic University (U. C.) aimed at incorporating the teaching of human nutrition into the curriculum of Latin American agronomists.