Agriculture and Farming Atlas

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Agronomy

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The science of field crop production: what to plant, when, in what soil, and how to bring a harvest in year after year without exhausting the land. Agronomy is the spine discipline of this atlas, the one plant breeding, soil science and agroecology branch from and return to.

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Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation. 1
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1. Agronomy (Wikipedia)
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American Society of Agronomy (Wikipedia)
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the increase and dissemination of knowledge concerning soils, crops, and the conditions affecting them.
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