Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in Indiana

CRP rental payments by fiscal year in Indiana

CRP rental payments by county, 2017-2021

Conservation practices installed on CRP acres, cumulative, as of January 2020, Indiana

Rank	Practice	Acres	Percent
1	State acres for wildlife enhancement	56,153	26.2%
2	Filter strips	42,130	19.7%
3	Grass waterways	17,424	8.1%
4	Grass plantings - introduced	16,870	7.9%
5	Tree plantings - hardwoods	11,706	5.5%
6	Grass plantings - native	11,551	5.4%
7	Bottomland hardwood trees	9,575	4.5%
8	Upland bird habitat buffers	9,291	4.3%
9	Wetland restoration - non-floodplain	8,106	3.8%
10	Wildlife habitat	5,857	2.7%
11	Pollinator habitat	5,313	2.5%
12	Riparian buffers	4,585	2.1%
13	Wetland restoration - floodplain	3,940	1.8%
14	Existing grass	3,937	1.8%
15	Rare and declining habitat	1,962	0.9%
16	Existing trees	1,322	0.6%
17	Field windbreaks	1,065	0.5%
18	Wetland restoration	945	0.4%
19	Shallow water for wildlife	856	0.4%
20	Farmable wetland program - buffer	468	0.2%
21	Wildlife food plots	296	0.1%
22	Farmable wetland program - wetland	266	0.1%
23	Tree plantings - softwoods	254	0.1%
24	Marginal pasture buffers - wildlife	87	< 0.1%
25	CRP grasslands - introduced grasses	54	< 0.1%
26	CRP grasslands - native grasses	46	< 0.1%
27	Marginal pasture buffers - wetland	42	< 0.1%
28	Wildlife corridors	22	< 0.1%
29	Contour grass strips	21	< 0.1%
30	Farmable wetland program - constructed wetlands	19	< 0.1%
31	Shelterbelts	17	< 0.1%
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	Total Acres	214,150

CRP rental payments by county, 2017-2021

Rank	State	CRP Rental Payments, 2017-2020
1	Starke County, Indiana	$9,062,782
2	Montgomery County, Indiana	$5,320,947
3	Warren County, Indiana	$5,313,840
4	Pulaski County, Indiana	$5,003,174
5	Jasper County, Indiana	$4,642,270
6	Wabash County, Indiana	$3,798,162
7	Kosciusko County, Indiana	$3,744,170
8	Putnam County, Indiana	$3,501,946
9	Benton County, Indiana	$3,473,228
10	Knox County, Indiana	$3,462,824
11	Miami County, Indiana	$3,459,684
12	De Kalb County, Indiana	$3,416,453
13	Cass County, Indiana	$3,402,027
14	Pike County, Indiana	$3,042,046
15	Huntington County, Indiana	$2,969,243
16	Lawrence County, Indiana	$2,863,171
17	Fountain County, Indiana	$2,852,193
18	Jay County, Indiana	$2,834,020
19	Allen County, Indiana	$2,573,733
20	Jackson County, Indiana	$2,430,806
21	Noble County, Indiana	$2,427,633
22	Wayne County, Indiana	$2,411,991
23	Parke County, Indiana	$2,406,365
24	Newton County, Indiana	$2,401,088
25	White County, Indiana	$2,379,748
26	Fulton County, Indiana	$2,374,339
27	Decatur County, Indiana	$2,149,466
28	Orange County, Indiana	$2,139,699
29	Ripley County, Indiana	$2,126,134
30	Steuben County, Indiana	$2,053,730
31	Tippecanoe County, Indiana	$2,051,234
32	Bartholomew County, Indiana	$1,962,128
33	La Porte County, Indiana	$1,930,038
34	Washington County, Indiana	$1,923,957
35	Carroll County, Indiana	$1,781,920
36	Marshall County, Indiana	$1,753,655
37	Sullivan County, Indiana	$1,591,542
38	Vermillion County, Indiana	$1,538,334
39	Owen County, Indiana	$1,484,438
40	Daviess County, Indiana	$1,386,116
41	Whitley County, Indiana	$1,384,713
42	Greene County, Indiana	$1,324,456
43	Adams County, Indiana	$1,288,955
44	Grant County, Indiana	$1,287,772
45	Delaware County, Indiana	$1,215,684
46	Vigo County, Indiana	$1,209,320
47	Howard County, Indiana	$1,199,552
48	Dubois County, Indiana	$1,198,819
49	Randolph County, Indiana	$1,195,104
50	Madison County, Indiana	$1,161,416
51	Blackford County, Indiana	$1,155,713
52	Jennings County, Indiana	$1,149,609
53	Clinton County, Indiana	$1,126,366
54	Wells County, Indiana	$1,118,759
55	Warrick County, Indiana	$1,087,882
56	Spencer County, Indiana	$1,052,013
57	Fayette County, Indiana	$945,376
58	Franklin County, Indiana	$931,628
59	Morgan County, Indiana	$883,011
60	Tipton County, Indiana	$874,454
61	Gibson County, Indiana	$851,131
62	Saint Joseph County, Indiana	$847,456
63	Porter County, Indiana	$841,169
64	Boone County, Indiana	$837,768
65	Harrison County, Indiana	$816,755
66	Lake County, Indiana	$810,452
67	Clay County, Indiana	$803,354
68	Scott County, Indiana	$788,698
69	Henry County, Indiana	$773,467
70	Posey County, Indiana	$756,022
71	Perry County, Indiana	$696,766
72	Martin County, Indiana	$679,393
73	Hendricks County, Indiana	$674,703
74	Hamilton County, Indiana	$650,369
75	Rush County, Indiana	$584,084
76	Johnson County, Indiana	$557,520
77	Crawford County, Indiana	$556,734
78	Monroe County, Indiana	$516,651
79	Vanderburgh County, Indiana	$513,786
80	Union County, Indiana	$446,845
81	Lagrange County, Indiana	$417,108
82	Switzerland County, Indiana	$391,178
83	Elkhart County, Indiana	$352,274
84	Jefferson County, Indiana	$347,894
85	Shelby County, Indiana	$281,448
86	Clark County, Indiana	$178,182
87	Hancock County, Indiana	$131,491
88	Brown County, Indiana	$102,688
89	Floyd County, Indiana	$72,483
90	Dearborn County, Indiana	$58,634
91	Marion County, Indiana	$15,887
92	Ohio County, Indiana	$4,688
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USDA Census of Agriculture Data for Indiana, 2017

Land in Indiana, 2017

Land type	Acres
Number of Farms:	56,649
Total Acres in Farms:	14,969,996
Cropland Acres:	12,909,673
Permanent pasture and rangeland:	508,735
Woodland Acres:	1,034,784

Livestock in Indiana, 2017

Livestock	Number of Animals
Broilers and other meat-type chickens sold	44,862,510
Layers inventory	26,354,377
Hogs and pigs inventory	4,004,388
Cattle and calves inventory	844,187
Sheep and lambs inventory	62,085

Crops in Indiana, 2017

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