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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This decline was due to lower oilseed processing margins and decreased agronomy product prices.
    — Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Todd Bohn is the new director of agronomy for Desert Mountain Club.
    — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2021
  • Like many kidnapping victims, her son, an agronomy student, was beaten during his ordeal.
    — Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Nearby was a tome on Ecuador’s judicial system and another on agronomy.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • Call it spiritual agronomy for short — or call it whack-a-doodle nonsense — but either way, biodynamics is a force in the wine world.
    — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
  • Stevenson went to Purdue to study agronomy — the science of soil management and crop production.
    — Matthew Vantryon, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2017
  • Harrell was the rice extension specialist and will continue his agronomy research.
    — NOLA.com, 6 Dec. 2020
  • The brand owns and runs 28 golf courses across their resort portfolio and handles operations, maintenance and agronomy in house.
    — Mike Dojc, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The club’s agronomy team has about 30 staffers, and for the Travelers about 30 more, some professionals, some volunteers, are brought in for such emergencies.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2024
  • 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
  • At Purdue, Redenbacher competed in track, performed in marching band and graduated with a degree in agronomy.
    — Matthew Glenesk, Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Arthur plans to attend Northwest Missouri State University to study agronomy and horticulture.
    — USA Today, 7 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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 Times interviewed a dozen academics — in fields ranging from law to psychology to agronomy — who have left Florida public universities or given their notice, many headed to blue states.
    — Stephanie Saul, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Colonial hired Rich McIntosh as director of agronomy in December 2021.
    — Dallas News, 7 May 2022
  • York studied mathematics and agronomy at South Dakota State University.
    — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026

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