 They were replaced by forage crops for dairy farming.In Aunis, this new agricultural activity grew rapidly thanks to the powerful dairy cooperative movement begun in 1888 in Chaillé in the Commune of Saint-Georges-du-Bois which then spread to Saintonge and Poitou before the 20th century.Together with dairy farming, cereal cropping also grew for which the cultivable land of the plain of "Aunis" is particularly well suited.