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
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.
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Jason Phillips, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Piccini's team tackled this by staging hands-on workshops, pairing veteran agronomists with robotics engineers to co-develop protocols that honored both viticultural wisdom and technological best practices.
—Jill Barth, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Jason Phillips, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Piccini's team tackled this by staging hands-on workshops, pairing veteran agronomists with robotics engineers to co-develop protocols that honored both viticultural wisdom and technological best practices.
—Jill Barth, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agronomists
farmers
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And Mendoza, who up until then had only brought over a few smaller batches of workers for other farmers, got to work on sourcing 300 of them for King.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
13 Sep. 2025
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Food companies are learning to build flexibility into their operations, farmers are diversifying their markets and input sources, and restaurants are redesigning menus around supply chain reliability rather than just cost and taste.—
Phil Lempert,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Agronomists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agronomists. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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