Farming on the Edge - MLRA no. Covering 5,990 square miles, about 65 percent of the area is in farms.
Major crops are corn, soybeans, small grains , vegetables and fruit.
Poultry, truck crops , sod farms and fruit crops are significant in some counties and many large tracts of lobloll pine are managed for timber production. The market value per acre produced in this MLRA ranks it as sixth out of the 127 MLRAs threatened by some development. A narrow band along the Atlantic coast is intensively developed for resorts and recreation. The county which grew most rapidly in the threatened areas is Queen Annes County in Maryland, which grew by 37.8 percent between 1980 and 1992. Sussex County in Delaware and Caroline, Talbot and Worcester counties in Maryland all grew by more than 20 percent during the same period.