[INFO] - main - ve_run(191) - Starting update 14: 2014-03-03T03:00:00
[INFO] - main - ve_run(197) - Updating model abiotic_simple
[INFO] - main - ve_run(197) - Updating model animal
[INFO] - main - ve_run(197) - Updating model plants
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Yeah. This is actively confusing. We could usefully move the logging here out of ve_run and into BaseModel.update where it can actually report more meaningful messages about the status.
Originally posted by @davidorme in #686