Chapter 7: The Bypassed East

Chapter Seven goes into detail about the "Bypassed East" an area from Northern New York through Newfoundland. Washington D.C. is not included in this section, so I am focusing on relating the agriculture problems in the Bypassed East to the Farming Bureau in Washington D.C., which handles all things agriculture and tries to help farms and farmers with their land and production.

The textbook writes, "Since the farm family exodus during the nineteenth century, agriculture's regional importance has continued to decline across most of the Bypassed East. Today, less than 15 percent of the land in northern New England (Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine) is in farms; 100 years ago, this was close to 50 percent."

Headquartered in Washington D.C., according to their website, the Farm Bureau is an independent, non-governmental, voluntary organization governed by and representing farm and ranch families united for the problems and formulating action to achieve educational improvement, economic opportunity and social advancement and, hereby to promote the national well-being. Farm Bureau is local, county, state, national and international in its scope and influence and is non-partisan, non-sectarian and non-secret in character. Farm Bureau is the voice of agricultural producers at all levels.

The Farm Bureau has sections all across the nation, including the states in the Bypassed East, (New York Vermont and Maine).