Tripal3 Chado text areas are broken.

Currently all text areas are broken for chado fields. This is due to the change to make them formatted without adding a mechanism or place to store the format. As such, we currently see an area when Drupal tries to pull the format and can't find it. For example, on an organism page we will see the following error related to the description field:
Notice: Undefined index: format in _text_sanitize() (line 321 of modules/field/modules/text/text.module).

My current thought it to save the format as a tripal variable but I haven't gotten the change to implement it yet.