Before you buy a new orchard sprayer, you’ll want to think about it a bit. A sprayer is a major investment, about $50,000, not something to be taken lightly. And what you buy is likely to be with you for many years. Dr. Andrew Landers, an agricultural engineer at New York State’s Cornell University, is one of the nation’s few researchers—the only one at a land-grant university—who keeps track of new orchard spray technology, researches better techniques, evaluates new machines and sprayer concepts, and teaches growers and students ways to provide more effective and safer spraying. In an interview with […]