I'm procrasinating and waiting for my turkey, kale, apple/cranberry pie breakfast to digest before I hit the workout routine. 

Today, our neighbor and friend, P.A. Keating is here doing our NASS CEAP survey.  This survey is a federally sponsored documentation/interview of every single farming and conservation practice we have on each and every field we farm!  It's a daunting process, but very, very important to agriculture.  Many, many environmental modelling programs are based on what we tell the NASS folks when the call/knock on our door.  This is important stuff folks.  Our TMDL for the Bay is based on the Bay model, which is such a freakishly flawed system.  EPA recognizes their model is flawed, but in a stunning display of heels being dug in, the EPA has locked down the model to any changes until 2017.  An example of the flaw is that Kent county Maryland is being recorded by the Bay model as having 10,000 more acres of crop land than actually exist. Kent County will have no chance of meeting the Bay TMDL, based on this flawed information.  Another shocking discovery was that agriculture is responsible, across the board, for being given a portion of the urban Waste Water Treatment Plant load because the WWTP's have no way of meeting their reductions.  So, we're doing such a good job of reducing nutrients in ag, the WWTP's want us to take up their load.