How to Use agronomy in a Sentence

agronomy

noun
  • There has never been as much data in the field of agronomy as there is now.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Todd Bohn is the new director of agronomy for Desert Mountain Club.
    Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2021
  • An ace in the hole for Superstition Mountain: director of agronomy Scott Krout has been there since the place opened in 1999.
    Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Wunderlich is the director of grounds and agronomy at Edgewood, and his main concern weeks before the games was the amount of snow (nearly four feet) that fell in the area three weeks before the game.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Oberly is the director of agronomy at Miacomet Golf Course, where he’s tasked with keeping the club’s 18 holes lush and verdant.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2021
  • Williams, Rowe and director of agronomy Michael Dieckhoff joined Robertson on the course to critique each hole for possible changes.
    Mark Kazlowski, Dallas News, 9 May 2021
  • Stevenson went to Purdue to study agronomy — the science of soil management and crop production.
    Matthew Vantryon, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2017
  • Today’s farmers are at the mercy of world markets as well as areas such as agronomy, climate change and new technologies.
    Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Despite the early start times, Widener was never late to work, according to Dan Figueras, the director of agronomy at Kierland.
    Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Pro golf on so many weeks is a comfortable environment for elite athletes who have elite equipment and elite agronomy at their command.
    Jim McCabe, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022
  • Babe eventually took a PhD in agronomy and got a job as a research scientist with a seed company in Scotland County.
    Tony Earley, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • Chris Gaesser, 36, who returned to the farm after graduating from Iowa State University with a degree in agronomy, asked with a laugh.
    New York Times, 9 July 2022
  • For instance, the Russian part of the International Space Station has a greenhouse for testing off-planet agronomy.
    Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
  • In making the decision, the board considered an agronomy study that included cost estimates to either maintain the 239-acre golf course or restore it at a future date.
    David Hernandez, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Schultz greets Carlos Mario Rodriguez, director of global agronomy at Starbucks, with a big smile and a familiar handshake.
    Justin Worland/alajuela, Time, 21 June 2018
  • But as talk of a border wall and a Muslim ban overtook the presidential campaign, Mr. Wielenga, the agronomy manager of a farmers’ co-op here in northwestern Iowa, had a change of heart.
    Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2017
  • The farm, its 600 acres located at the foot of the active Poás Volcano, is considered the coffee company's global agronomy headquarters.
    Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The organization relies on weather reports and agronomy wizardry to push a course to the limits of fairness, and routinely the courses become unfair.
    Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 22 May 2018
  • The crews themselves are largely made up of Americans in their seventh year of graduate work in agronomy or applied social-media studies who also happen to be Olympic gold medalists.
    Gerard Baker, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
  • These are steps forward but need to be closely vetted, said Kladivko, the agronomy professor at Purdue University.
    Emily Hopkins, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
  • Like many kidnapping victims, her son, an agronomy student, was beaten during his ordeal.
    Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2021
  • There’s no shortage of how-to books catering to pot growers both in and out of the black market, but Colorado’s forthcoming guidebook aims to apply established agronomy practices to the production of marijuana.
    Kristen Wyatt, The Cannabist, 3 Feb. 2017
  • Wigger graduated in 1960 with a degree in agronomy, became an Army officer and rose to lieutenant colonel, mostly based in Fort Benning, Ga., as a riflery instructor.
    Frank Litsky, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Colonial hired Rich McIntosh as director of agronomy in December 2021.
    Dallas News, 7 May 2022
  • Harrell was the rice extension specialist and will continue his agronomy research.
    NOLA.com, 6 Dec. 2020
  • Arthur plans to attend Northwest Missouri State University to study agronomy and horticulture.
    USA Today, 7 June 2023
  • At Purdue, Redenbacher competed in track, performed in marching band and graduated with a degree in agronomy.
    Matthew Glenesk, Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The commission used software to search hundreds of Russian-language journals—ranging from natural sciences, agronomy, psychology, and medicine to economics and law—for text overlap.
    Dalmeet Singh Chawla, Science | AAAS, 8 Jan. 2020
  • After earning his degree in agronomy, Choqque left a job at Peru’s agricultural institute to continue researching the crop in Huatata, his home village.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2022
  • Harvesting the marijuana was a difficult process from the start, said Eduardo Blasina, an agronomy engineer who held a minority stake in the companies that supply pharmacies.
    Leonardo Haberkorn, Fox News, 13 June 2018

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