Better nutrient management, better buffer zones, and better cover crops are all key to repairing the damage that agriculture and industry have done to the Chesapeake Bay — that was the message that senior EPA Chesapeake adviser Chuck Fox delivered to the area’s agricultural community, according to the Associated Press. You might have noticed that the talk about cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay has picked up recently: That’s because President Barack Obama told Fox and the boys down at EPA to submit a draft cleanup plan by September 9 or he’d rub Old Bay into tiny little cuts on their fingers. Questions remain as to how the plan will also address urban and suburban fertilizer runoff — which are the pollution vectors that are increasing — but it’s clear that Obama intends to go for cost-effective agricultural solutions to agricultural runoff.