CAMPUS ADDRESS: 312 Barton lab, NYSAES, Geneva

PHONE: 315 787 2429
E-MAIL: ajl31@cornell.edu

ACADEMIC RANKS
Senior Extension Associate: 1999

PRIMARY DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAM AREA
Pesticide application technology in the Dept of Entomology at NYSAES, and Biological and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Pesticide application technology, agricultural engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1994-96 Head, Department of Agric. Eng., Harper Adams University College, Newport. UK
1983-94 Senior Tutor in Agric. Engineering, Royal Agricultural College.UK
1975-83 Tutor in Agric. Engineering, Royal Agricultural College.UK
1972-74 Tutor in Agricultural Engineering at Aylesbury College.UK

HONORS AND AWARDS
1983 Douglas Bomford Trust
1989 Her Majesty' s Agricultural Inspectorate, Health and Safety Executive and the Douglas Bomford Trust Travel scholarship
1995 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travel Fellowship
1996 Royal Academy of Engineering International travel grant
2004 Cornell University International Traveling Fellowship to visit Poland
2004 Viticulture Consortium –East Travel award

CURRENT ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
To develop and maintain the pesticide application technology program, via extension and research

Courses Taught
Occasional classes on application technology taught in weed science 315 and Hort 445 (pomology) and Hort 444 (viticulture)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Chartered Engineer
Fellow of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers
Member of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Member of the European Society of Agricultural Engineers
Member of the Association of Applied Biologists
Member of the Soil and Water Conservation Society
Member, Epsilon Sigma Phi

PROFESSIONAL HONORARIES
Member, Alpha Epsilon

COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
International/National:

ASAE blue ribbon committee
ASAE P208 Extension and PM41 Pest control and fertilizer application committee

State/Local:
Member of a panel to review agricultural engineering teaching and department facilities at SUNY Morrisville.

College:
Chairman of the Grape workgroup — a subsection of the Fruit Program Work Team

My role is to develop educational packages via lectures, papers, fact sheets and multi-media to improve pesticide application in the State of New York and the North-East of the USA. I am currently concentrating on 4 commodities, vegetables, apples, grapes and turfgrass.

Novel application techniques are being developed all the time and my current research is to design and evaluate new systems. There are many detailed questions to be answered, particularly when considering how New York growers apply pesticides compared with other states and countries.

1. Improving deposition and reducing drift

Considering methods of improving traditional pesticide application methods. The traditional role of an engineer looking at pesticide application will continue

2. Alternatives to pesticides

Other exciting developments such as alternatives to pesticides interest me. I have one research project on weed vision systems, a method of reducing pesticide use. Alternatives to pesticides such as steam and hot water/foam are also studied.

3. Engineering controls to reduce operator contamination and environmental pollution

Work on protective clothing with Kay Obendorf, Alan Hedge and Charlotte Coffman.

Landers, A.J. and Gil, E.  (2007) Software to determine the optimal volume rate for pesticide applications in vineyards. Report of 2007/06 proposals received and awards made and final reports to grant year 2006. Viticulture Consortium – East. Geneva: Cornell University, NYSAES  (In press)

Landers A.J and Wilcox W. (2007). Optimizing spray penetration and deposition in New York and Pennsylvania.  Report of 2007/06 proposals received and awards made and final reports to grant year 2006. Viticulture Consortium – East. Geneva: Cornell University, NYSAES (In press)

Agnello, A., Landers, A.J. (2006). Current progress in the development of a fixed spray pesticide application system for high-density apple plantings. NY Fruit Quarterly Vol 14 No. 4             Winter.pp.22-26

Landers, A.J. and Gil, E.  (2006) Development and validation of a new deflector system to improve pesticide application in New York and Pennsylvania grape production areas. Presented at the 2006 ASAE Annual International Meeting, Portland, OR Paper No. 061001, ASABE, 2950 Niles Road, St Joseph, MI 49085-9659

Landers, A.J. (2005) Optimizing spray penetration and deposition with airblast sprayers in New York             and Pennsylvania. Polish Academy of Sciences Annual Review of Agricultural Engineering 4 (1) pp179-186  Warsaw: Dabor 

Landers, A.J. (2004) Protecting the operator- are we making an impact? In: Aspects of Applied Biology 71. International advances in pesticide application. pp. 357-364

Landers, A.J. and Farooq M. (2004) Factors influencing air and pesticide penetration into grapevine canopies. In: Aspects of Applied Biology 71. International advances in pesticide application. pp. 343-348

Kline, A.A., Landers, A.J. Hedge, A., Lemley, A.T., Obendorf, S.K. and Dokuchayeva, T. (2003). Pesticide exposure levels on surfaces within sprayer cabs. Applied Engineering in Agriculture 19 (4) 397- 403 

Landers, A.J. (2002). The answer is blowing in the wind. In: Aspects of Applied Biology 66. International advances in pesticide application. pp. 177-184

Landers, A.J. (2000) Farm machinery selection, investment and management. 152pp Sidcup: Farming Press (Miller Freeman)