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Agronomy

The science of soil management for producing crops destined for food, feed, fibre and fuel.

agronomy

the study of the cultivation of field crops, with particular emphasis on improving their productivity and qualitative features.

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The opening of Starbucks Coffee Agronomy Company is another step to help improve the lives of coffee farmers, their families and communities by ensuring social, environmental and economic sustainability.

Starbucks Coffee Agronomy Company Opens in Costa Rica to Help Farmers Improve Their Coffee Quality

There is skill involved in combining your own knowledge and ground truthing to ensure precision agronomy is effective in your farming system.

Australia : Growers offered precision agronomy courses

The number of events has been increased to provide more growers with better opportunities to discuss developments in agronomy with experts at the cutting edge of applied research.

Agronomy event staged for Northern farmers; FARMING

Under this agreement, Iteris' ClearPath Ag high-resolution, precision weather analytics will be integrated into Agrian's suite of precision agronomy products.

Iteris signs agronomy weather agreement with Agrian

MarkLogic's capabilities allowed the American Society of Agronomy to "get at" and use its data quickly.

A case of agronomic information management

Origin Enterprises supplies integrated agronomy services, crop nutrition and feed ingredients in the UK, Poland and Ireland.

-Danish Columbus IT wins ERP deal in Ireland

Steered by the Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries Ministry and the Bari-based Mediterranean Agronomy Institute, Italy, this project also helps conceive of projects in the handicrafts, fisheries and other farming activities, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Bizerte and Zaghouan intervention areas.

Results of technical co-operation back-up project to fruits and vegetables production in Tunisia

This volume updates and supplants the 1979 Agronomy Monograph 20 Tall Grass and complements the 1996 Agronomy Monograph 34 Cool-Season Forage Grasses.

Tall fescue for the twenty-first century. (CD-ROM included)

Summary: Morocco pledged to reconstruct the agronomy faculty of Al-Azhar University and the destroyed part of al Quds hospital in Gaza under two agreements signed, here Thursday, under chairmanship of king Mohammed VI.

Morocco to reconstruct agronomy faculty, Al Quds hospital in Gaza

FINE (South Dakota State University), a longtime agronomy professor, passed away on Nov.

Lawrence O. Fine

The International Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) will hold their annual meetings November 4-8, 2007 in New Orleans, La.

2007 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings

Now in a newly revised edition, Hands-On Agronomy covers how to balance soil nutrients for maximum yield, why simple N-P-K fertilization isn't enough, how to properly use manures, compost, tillage, and micronutrients, and much more.