agronomist
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For years, he’s relied on an agronomist — a scientist who helps optimize crop production and soil management — who comes around in December to test the soil on each field of his farm.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
Al-Nazir Ali Babiker, an agronomist, said the loss of tree cover could cause more severe seasonal flooding because the "forest acted as a barrier" against rising waters.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
Back then, French entrepreneur and agronomist Michael Laurent began using Google Earth to identify new locations for food production.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
Running in a crowded field, Vargas Llosa emerged as a favorite in early polls, which catapulted him to a runoff against agronomist Alberto Fujimori in 1990.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2025
After the agronomist had left, they also ate the imported cows and all the brood hens.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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Farmers who need advice on how best to grow their crops can have natural-language conversations with AI agents preloaded with research and advice from scientific literature and a community of professional agronomists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
The garden, owned by Ms. García and run by agronomists from the University of Buenos Aires, reflects the changing taste of locals, which Ms. García’s dining venues have helped cultivate.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
Where resources are stretched too thin or disasters become too frequent, some agronomists believe it is no longer wise to grow some crops in the areas that they have been previously grown.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2022
Some of the farmers in the project, excited that they were becoming agronomists, started to wonder how to tackle the problem more directly.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2021
Why did olive trees yield to Stone Age farmers, whereas oak trees continue to defeat our brightest agronomists?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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