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Agricultural Research Essential Works

September 1, 2026
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National Archives: Morrill Act (1862)

 

Standards Developer Titles
International Code Council
Agricultural / Farm

International Building Code (IBC)

International Fire Code (IFC)
International Mechanical Code (IMC)
International Code Council
Water / Plumbing / Sewage

International Plumbing Code (IPC)

International Private Sewage Disposal Code (IPSDC)
International Green Construction Code (IgCC)
NFPA / National Electrical Code
Agricultural Services
NFPA 70 — National Electrical Code
Article 547 — Agricultural Buildings
NFPA / National Electrical Code
Fences / Grounding
Article 547 — Agricultural Buildings
Section 250.194 — Grounding and Bonding of Fences and Other Metal Structures
Note: Section 250.194 applies particularly to fences associated with electrical installations and should not be confused with requirements for energized livestock fencing.
ASABE
Farm Buildings

ASAE EP378.4 — Floor and Suspended Loads on Agricultural Structures Due to Use

ASAE EP484.3 — Diaphragm Design of Metal-Clad, Wood-Frame Rectangular Buildings
ASAE S401.2 — Guidelines for Use of Thermal Insulation in Agricultural Buildings
ASAE EP486.3 — Shallow Post and Pier Foundation Design
ASAE EP473.2 — Equipotential Plane in Livestock Containment Areas
ASAE S412.2 — Ladders, Cages, Walkways and Stairs
ASABE
Agricultural Electrical
ASAE EP258.5 — Installation of Electric Infrared Brooding Equipment
ASAE EP473.2 — Equipotential Plane in Livestock Containment Areas
Illuminating Engineering Society
ANSI/IES RP-45-21 — Recommended Practice: Horticultural Lighting
American Society of Civil Engineers
ASCE/SEI 7 — Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures

On-Farm Irrigation Systems standards and technical work
Working index. Additional titles from ASHRAE, ASTM International, AWWA and ASME will be brought forward as research continues.

Agriculture

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“Harvest Rest” | George Cole

One characteristic of the “customer experience” of school children, dormitory residents, patients in university-affiliated hospitals and attendees of large athletic events is the quality of food.  School districts and large research universities are responsible for hundreds of food service enterprises for communities that are sensitive to various points along the food supply chain.

The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) is one of the first names in standards setting for the technology and management of the major components of the global food supply chain.   It has organized its ANSI-accredited standards setting enterprise into about 200 technical committees developing 260-odd consensus documents*.   It throws off a fairly steady stream of public commenting opportunities; many of them relevant to agricultural equipment manufacturers (i.e, the Producer interest where the most money is) but enough of them relevant to consumers (i.e. the User interest where the least money is) and agricultural economics academic programs that we follow the growth of its best practice bibliography.

A few of the ASABE consensus documents that may be of interest to faculty and students in agricultural and environmental science studies are listed below:

  • Safety for Farmstead Equipment
  • Safety Color Code for Educational and Training Laboratories
  • Recommended Methods for Measurement and Testing of LED Products for Plant Growth and Development
  • Distributed Ledger Technology applications to the global food supply chain

The ASABE bibliography is dominated by product-related standards; a tendency we see in many business models of standards setting organizations because of the influence of global industrial conglomerates who can bury the cost of their participation into a sold product.  Our primary interest lies in the movement of interoperability standards — much more difficult — as discussed in our ABOUT.

The home page for the ASABEs standards setting enterprise is linked below:

ASABE Standards Development

"It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart." -- Rainer Maria Rilke

As of this posting we find no live consultation notices for interoperability standards relevant to educational settlements.  Sometimes you can find them ‘more or less concurrently’ posted at the linked below:

ANSI Standards Action

We always encourage our colleagues to participate directly in the ASABE standards development process.  Students are especially welcomed into the ASABE Community.  Jean Walsh (walsh@asabe.org) and Scott Cederquist (cedarq@asabe.org) are listed as contacts.

 

Category: Food

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben


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Overnight Guests

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Residential Services

 

Standards Illinois | Homophily Illinois

What’s a Father to Do? Send his daughter to college to find a man only to discover that there are no men

A father has a simple, time-honored plan. Pack the minivan, drive the daughter to a respectable college, and wait for the inevitable phone call announcing she has found a solid young man—someone with a firm handshake, a future, and the ability to change a tire without consulting YouTube. He waves goodbye with the quiet confidence of a man who believes the campus still stocks reliable husbands the way it stocks textbooks — someone from a family born in the same weather their family was born in.

Months later the first report arrives. “Dad,” she says, “there are no men here.”

He blinks. “What do you mean, no men? I saw several walking around during orientation.”

“Those were boys,” she explains patiently. “They wear pajama pants to class, call their mothers three times a day, and consider ‘adulting’ a competitive sport they are currently losing. The ones who do shave have somehow managed to make facial hair look like a cry for help.”

He suggests she look harder. She does. She finds young males who communicate exclusively in memes, whose idea of providing is splitting the Uber Eats bill, and who treat commitment the way most people treat expired yogurt—something to be avoided until it becomes a science experiment. One proudly announced he was “working on himself,” which turned out to mean leveling up a video-game character while living on instant ramen in a dorm that smelled faintly of regret.

The father tries the classic advice: “Look for the ones who open doors.” She replies that the only doors being opened are the ones to the campus counseling center after yet another group-chat misunderstanding. He mentions careers and ambition. She counters with stories of seniors still majoring in “figuring it out” and minors in “vibes.”

In the end the father sits on the porch, staring at the empty driveway, wondering whether he should have invested in a time machine instead of tuition. Perhaps the real lesson is that college still produces plenty of degrees—just not the kind that come with a man attached. What’s a father to do? Buy extra tissues, lower his expectations, and hope the next generation invents a major in “basic adulthood.”

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Gallery: Doctoral Dissertations, et al

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Sketchy:

Jason Arday: An exploration of peer-mentoring among student teachers’ to inform reflective practice within the context of action research

Anilenia Hernández: A Brief History of My Gendered Body (Removed by ProQuest)

Dr. Jill Jacobs-Biden: Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Student’s Needs

Michelle Obama: Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community

Dr. Claudine Gay: Taking charge: Black electoral success and the redefinition of American politics

Ibram X. Kendi (Henry Rogers):  The Black Campus Movement: An Afrocentric Narrative History of the Struggle to Diversify Higher Education, 1965-1972

Hilary Clinton: There is Only the Fight…

Not Sketchy:

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman

John Kennedy: Appeasement at Munich

Janet Yellen: Employment, Output and Capital Accumulation in an Open Economy: A Disequilibrium Approach.

John Nash: Non-Cooperative Games

Reflections / John Nash


Alma Adams (D-NC, US House)

Multicultural attitudes and teacher performance in art classrooms in the southwestern city schools of Franklin County /

Jamaal Bowman (D-NY, US House, until 2024)
“Community Schools: The Perceptions and Practices that Foster Broad-Based Collaboration among Leaders within the Community School.”
Raphael Warnock (D-GA, US Senate)
“Churchmen, Church Martyrs: The Activist Ecclesiologies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr.”
John Walsh (former Democratic US Senator, Montana)

 

 

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