 Beer had replaced cider as a fashionable drink in the main export markets, and even the home market had switched to beer as the population became more urban.Potatoes overtook cider as the most important crop in Jersey in the 1840s.Small-scale cider production on farms for domestic consumption, particularly by seasonal workers from Brittany and mainland Normandy, was maintained, but by the mid-20th century production dwindled until only eight farms were producing cider for their own consumption in 1983.