as in farmers
a person who cultivates the land and grows crops on it
went from being a simple soybean farmer to an agronomist specializing in soil management
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Recent Examples of agronomists
Elsewhere in Kigali, a group of young agronomists are training farmers to adopt technologies such as hydroponics to maximize productivity, using water instead of soil.
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Evelyne Musambi, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Elsewhere in Kigali, a group of young agronomists are training farmers to adopt technologies such as hydroponics to maximize productivity, using water instead of soil.
—ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
Cattle were raised, and various crops (including corn [maize] and cotton) were grown with the assistance of agronomists.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Oktyabr Dospanov, curator of the Nukus Museum of Art’s archaeology department, explained that rice cultivation in Karakalpakstan took off in the 1960s, when Soviet agronomists introduced it as a salt-tolerant crop for the area’s saline soil.
—Michael Snyder, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026
All 11 stadiums — even the four that play NFL football on natural grass — will bring in special sod carefully crafted by agronomists and approved by FIFA.
—Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
There are humans in the cabin of the combine - mostly agronomists who study the operations and yield, and use this information to optimize seeding plans for next season.
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
The charity’s agronomists predict that one kit, properly tended, can yield up to two hundred pounds of produce in a single season, enough to supplement the diets of a family of four.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
There, architects, agronomists, artists, and anthropologists spoke about ways of reviving the desiccated landscape.
—Michael Snyder, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2025
Evelyne Musambi, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Elsewhere in Kigali, a group of young agronomists are training farmers to adopt technologies such as hydroponics to maximize productivity, using water instead of soil.
—ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
Cattle were raised, and various crops (including corn [maize] and cotton) were grown with the assistance of agronomists.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Oktyabr Dospanov, curator of the Nukus Museum of Art’s archaeology department, explained that rice cultivation in Karakalpakstan took off in the 1960s, when Soviet agronomists introduced it as a salt-tolerant crop for the area’s saline soil.
—Michael Snyder, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026
All 11 stadiums — even the four that play NFL football on natural grass — will bring in special sod carefully crafted by agronomists and approved by FIFA.
—Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
There are humans in the cabin of the combine - mostly agronomists who study the operations and yield, and use this information to optimize seeding plans for next season.
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
The charity’s agronomists predict that one kit, properly tended, can yield up to two hundred pounds of produce in a single season, enough to supplement the diets of a family of four.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
There, architects, agronomists, artists, and anthropologists spoke about ways of reviving the desiccated landscape.
—Michael Snyder, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agronomists
farmers
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For commercial farmers Jami and Chuck English, stationing an honor box at their pick-your-own pumpkin patch each fall was a logistics decision.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
10 Apr. 2026
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Such assurances are unlikely to quell the community’s decades-long experience with polluted runoff, however, and small farmers say that runoff could also present a food safety problem and threaten to set back years of organic farming practices.—
Thomas Heaton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Agronomists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agronomists. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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