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• n  an expert in soil management and field-crop production

• Lysenko was a peasant-born agronomist and Marxist ideologue who rejected Mendel's ideas because they contradicted the doctrine of dialectical materialism.
• The 63-year old agronomist and former president is better known for being Haiti's only democratically elected head of state to complete his five-year term rather than for anything .
• It sold for less than a quarter of some speciality coffees and it didn't take an agronomist to figure out why.

News & Articles

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• Answers from Winfield
  Regional agronomist Ryan Wolf shows the root systems from two corn plants at Winfield’s Answer Plot near Garretson, S.D.
  June 15, 2013 - Tri-State Neighbor

Quotes

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• Jonathan Alter in DesMoinesRegister.com
  An elderly agronomist doesn't make news, even when he is widely credited with saving the lives of 1 billion human beings worldwide,Alter wrote. "For Borlaug, still vital at 93, to win more notice, he would have to make his next trip to...
• Lester R. Brown in National Journal (blog)
  You don't have to be an agronomist to know that if you keep adding that many mouths to feed each year, you are going to be in trouble,said Brown, of the Earth Policy Institute.
• Pat Nevin in Times Online
  There is not a specialist a round who can fix this,a sympathetic Nevin said yesterday. "We spent a lot of time, money and effort when I was at Motherwell. We listened to every agronomist, did everything they asked and got nowhere. To fix...