The county is a big poultry producer, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has accused several chicken and turkey farmers in the area of polluting water that will eventually find its way into Chesapeake Bay.

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The nightmare prospect is that Turkey's farmers, about 45% of the nation, with no more state subsidies to keep them afloat, will flock to the cities, whose swollen shanty-towns are already a fertile breeding-ground for extremists, be they Islamists, Kurds or others.

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Demand for the U.S. crop from Spain, Turkey and Pakistan also has led farmers to plant more.

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Martin, the economist, says farmers have to move in that direction if they're going to compete with countries like Turkey and China.

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