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ANDREW LANDERS

321 Barton Laboratory
NYS Agricultural Experiment Station
Geneva, NY 14456

Tel: 315-787-2429

Fax: 315-787-2326

email:ajl31@cornell.edu

• Application of modern technology to crop sprayers to reduce environmental pollution and operator contamination

• Development of direct injection crop sprayers

• Variable rate pesticide application for precision farming

• University of Bath, Ph.D, 1992. Thesis: The characteristics and performance of a direct injection crop sprayer

• Cranfield University, Silsoe College, M.Sc., 1984, Agricultural Engineering. Thesis: Labour and Machinery Planning

• Writtle Agricultural College, 1972. National Diploma in Agricultural Engineering

• Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 1970

. Diploma of Membership of the Royal Agricultural College and National Diploma in Agriculture

1994 - 1996: Head, Dept. of Agric. Eng, Harper Adams University College

1983 - 1994: Senior Lecturer in Agric. Engineering, Royal Agricultural College

1975 - 1983: Lecturer in Agric.Engineering, Royal Agricultural College

1972 - 1974: Lecturer in Agricultural Engineering at Aylesbury College

• Douglas Bomford Trust Scholarship to undertake M.Sc. Course at Silsoe College and to carry out research into computerised labour and machinery planning at Silsoe Research Institute, 1983-84

• European Community Cooperation award to study methods of machinery management in Schleswig-Holstein, based at Kiel University, Germany, 1985

• Her Majesty's Agricultural Inspectorate, Health and Safety Executive and the Douglas Bomford Trust Travel scholarship to study farming methods and closed transfer of pesticides, based at the University of California, Davis, 1989

• European Commission PHARE ACE scholarship to visit the University of Rousse and tour farms in Bulgaria, October 1994

• Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travel Fellowship to visit the USA in July and August 1995 to study engineering solutions to farm waste problems. (eight weeks).

• Royal Academy of Engineering International travel grant to visit China, August 1996.

• Chartered Engineer (P.E)
• 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 (Pesticide application sub-group)
• Member of the Soil and Water Conservation Society

Institution of Agricultural Engineers:

Vice-President 1997-98

Chairman of the Machinery Management specialist group since 1992

Western branch: Chairman (1993-94), Vice-Chairman (1991-93), Secretary and treasurer (1980-91).

Landers, A.J. (1993). Direct injection sprayers a method of reducing environmental pollution. Proc. ANPP-BCPC second international symposium on pesticide application techniques. Strasbourg, France, 22nd24th September 1993. pp 305312 Thornton Heath: British Crop Protection Council

Landers A.J. (1994) The design, operation and performance of a direct injection sprayer.The Agricultural Engineer 49 (1) 2629

Landers A.J and Steel D. (1994) Precision agriculture a viable option for future farming in Europe? Paper No. 94/1604 St Joseph, MI: American Society of Agricltural Engineers.

Landers A.J. (1995) Planning the policy for the replacement of machinery. Manual for exercises on the management of agriculture. N. Naydenov ed., Rousse: University of Rousse

Landers, A.J. and Naydenov N. (1996) Experiences gained from the TEMPUS exchange for mechanization management teaching at the University of Rousse, Bulgaria and Harper Adams College, England. Agricultural progress - the journal of the Rural Education and Development Association, Vol.71. 49-52

Landers, A.J (1996). Engineering solutions for safer pesticide application - reducing operator contamination and environmental pollution.Proc. International conference on Agricultural and Biological Environment Engineering. Beijing, China. 15-20th August 1996. (Zhang Senwen and Wang Yunlong, eds.).pp.V1-V3. Beijing: China Agricultral University Press

Landers, A.J. (1997). A compressed air direct injection crop sprayer. Optimising pesticide applications. Aspects of Applied Biology,48 1997.pp25-32. Wellesbourne:Associaion of Applied Biologists.

Landers, A.J. (1998) The development of a crop sprayer testing scheme to improve quality standards in crop protection in the United Kingdom. Presented at the 1998 ASAE Annual International Meeting, Paper No. 981002, ASAE, 2950 Niles Road, St Joseph, MI 49085-9659 USA

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