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Scientific agriculture   /sˌaɪəntˈɪfɪk ˈægrɪkˌəltʃər/   Listen
Scientific agriculture

noun
1.
The application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production.  Synonym: agronomy.





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... farm and home by being well-balanced between the cultural and vocational. They have made it possible for the country boy who remains on the farm to obtain a high school education in his own community that is directly related to his needs. Scientific agriculture under trained instructors is taught in all of these schools. The possibilities of the farm and of rural life are thus revealed to the boy and he will be equipped with knowledge necessary to the scientific performance ...
— The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox • Charles E. Morris
... semi-arid plains of the American West. Sheep-grazing on open range was with difficulty dislodged from the San Joaquin Valley of California by expanding farms in the sixties. More recently "dry farming" and scientific agriculture adapted to semi-arid conditions have "pushed the desert off the map" in Kansas, and advanced the frontier of tillage across the previous domain of natural pastures to the western border ...
— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple


Words linked to "Scientific agriculture" :   science, agronomy, agrobiology, agrology, scientific discipline


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