| 1 | Cropland Annual Payment | $225,510,254 |
| 2 | Pasture Annual Payment | $7,029,433 |
| 3 | Reduce risks of nutrient losses to surface water by utilizing precision ag technologies | $5,681,241 |
| 4 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing precision pesticide application techniques | $5,476,070 |
| 5 | Non-Industrial Private Forest Land Annual Payment | $3,246,410 |
| 6 | Close structures to capture/retain rainfall to improve food for waterfowl/wading birds during winter | $2,958,369 |
| 7 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to surface water | $2,673,756 |
| 8 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques | $1,913,509 |
| 9 | Intermittent flooding of rice fields | $1,774,645 |
| 10 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risks to air quality - emissions of GHGs | $1,645,316 |
| 11 | Controlled traffic farming to reduce compaction | $1,414,429 |
| 12 | Close structures to capture and retain rainfall to improve cover and shelter for birds during winter | $1,351,204 |
| 13 | Reduce ozone precursor emissions related to pesticides by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques | $1,095,047 |
| 14 | Stream habitat improvement through placement of woody biomass | $1,080,175 |
| 15 | Pastured Cropland Annual Payment | $1,045,839 |
| 16 | Advanced IWM--Weather is monitored- recorded and used in decision making | $1,030,406 |
| 17 | Manipulate vegetation on fields where rainfall is to be captured and retained-food | $969,879 |
| 18 | Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $926,120 |
| 19 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife cover | $832,566 |
| 20 | Reduced tillage to reduce water erosion | $811,727 |
| 21 | Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles | $719,259 |
| 22 | Existing Activity Payment-Land Use | $645,293 |
| 23 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to groundwater | $445,775 |
| 24 | Close structures to capture and retain rainfall for birds to improve habitat continuity | $405,956 |
| 25 | Manipulate vegetation on fields where rainfall is to be captured and retained-cover/shelter | $403,883 |
| 26 | Advanced Automated IWM - Year 1 - Equipment and soil moisture is monitored- recorded and used in dec | $391,535 |
| 27 | Forest Stand Improvement to rehabilitate degraded hardwood stands | $370,187 |
| 28 | Advanced IWM--Soil moisture is monitored- recorded- and used in decision making | $359,638 |
| 29 | Close structures to capture and retain rainfall to provide water for birds during winter | $356,467 |
| 30 | Reduce height of the forest understory to limit wildfire risk | $352,525 |
| 31 | Farmstead | $344,329 |
| 32 | Minimum Payment Adjustment | $336,601 |
| 33 | Sequential patch burning | $325,795 |
| 34 | Supplemental Payment | $316,884 |
| 35 | Extend retention of captured rainfall to provide enhanced cover and shelter for late winter habitat | $272,807 |
| 36 | Provide early successional habitat between first rice crop and ratoon crop-continuity | $243,892 |
| 37 | Crop tree management for mast production | $237,174 |
| 38 | Associated Ag Land | $192,750 |
| 39 | Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture: irrigation water | $186,960 |
| 40 | Existing Activity Payment-Resource Concern | $186,300 |
| 41 | Establish Monarch butterfly habitat | $184,548 |
| 42 | Reduce forest stand density to improve a degraded plant community | $173,395 |
| 43 | Herbaceous weed control (plant pest pressures) for desired plant communities/habitats | $170,506 |
| 44 | Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $168,251 |
| 45 | Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients-surface water | $165,850 |
| 46 | Enhance development of the forest understory to provide wildlife cover and shelter | $155,479 |
| 47 | Reduced tillage to reduce energy use | $138,824 |
| 48 | Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture: moisture management | $131,753 |
| 49 | Enhance development of the forest understory to create conditions resistant to pests | $121,798 |
| 50 | Short-interval burns to promote a healthy herbaceous plant community for wildlife food | $118,223 |
| 51 | Pest Management Conservation System | $116,688 |
| 52 | Enhance development of the forest understory to capture nutrients in surface water | $107,658 |
| 53 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food | $107,331 |
| 54 | Reduce risks of nutrient losses to ground water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies to p | $106,138 |
| 55 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife food sources | $104,916 |
| 56 | Planting for high carbon sequestration rate | $99,256 |
| 57 | Harvest of crops (hay or small grains) using measures that allow desired species to flush or escape | $99,090 |
| 58 | Reduced tillage to reduce tillage induced particulate matter | $95,698 |
| 59 | Cover crop to minimize soil compaction | $86,693 |
| 60 | Cover crop to reduce water erosion | $80,295 |
| 61 | Enhance development of the forest understory to improve site moisture | $76,084 |
| 62 | Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients-ground water | $62,908 |
| 63 | Prescribed grazing that maintains/improves riparian/watershed function impairment from nutrients | $62,165 |
| 64 | Maintaining and improving forest soil quality by limiting compaction | $60,683 |
| 65 | Resource conserving crop rotation to relieve plant pest pressure | $60,305 |
| 66 | Stockpiling cool season forage to improve plant productivity and health | $59,896 |
| 67 | Irrigation Water Management  | $58,472 |
| 68 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation to reduce water erosion | $56,094 |
| 69 | Increase riparian forest buffer width to enhance wildlife habitat | $54,257 |
| 70 | Conservation cover to provide food habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects | $50,250 |
| 71 | Resource conserving crop rotation to improve soil compaction | $49,459 |
| 72 | Automated Intermittent flood irrigation of rice fields- Year 2-5 | $48,296 |
| 73 | Increase diversity in pine plantation monocultures | $46,923 |
| 74 | Short-interval burn | $40,713 |
| 75 | Stream habitat improvement through placement of woody biomass | $37,685 |
| 76 | Cropland conversion to trees or shrubs for long term improvement of water quality | $32,570 |
| 77 | Create patch openings to enhance wildlife cover and shelter | $31,882 |
| 78 | Resource conserving crop rotation for soil organic matter improvement | $30,764 |
| 79 | Snags- den trees- and coarse woody debris for wildlife habitat | $28,915 |
| 80 | Reduce forest stand density to improve wildlife food sources | $28,895 |
| 81 | Adding food-producing trees and shrubs to existing plantings | $28,320 |
| 82 | Summer roosting habitat for native forest-dwelling bat species | $28,242 |
| 83 | No till system to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $28,151 |
| 84 | Herbaceous weed control for desired plant communities/habitats consistent with the ecological site | $26,900 |
| 85 | Resource conserving crop rotation to reduce water erosion | $25,072 |
| 86 | Stream crossing elimination | $23,848 |
| 87 | Extend retention of rainfall to provide food for late winter habitat | $23,751 |
| 88 | Advanced Automated IWM - Year 2-5- Soil moisture is monitored- recorded and used in decision making | $22,432 |
| 89 | No till to increase plant-available moisture: irrigation water | $22,248 |
| 90 | Manage livestock access to streams/ditches/other waterbodies to reduce nutrients in surface water | $21,953 |
| 91 | Enhanced field borders to reduce water induced erosion along the edge(s) of a field | $21,193 |
| 92 | Crop Bundle#3 - Soil health rotation- No till | $19,564 |
| 93 | Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $18,473 |
| 94 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base to improve plant community structure and composition | $17,573 |
| 95 | Maintaining quantity and quality of forage for animal health and productivity | $16,743 |
| 96 | Prescribed Grazing | $15,470 |
| 97 | Conservation cover to provide habitat continuity for pollinators and beneficial insects | $13,982 |
| 98 | Firebreak | $13,536 |
| 99 | Cover Crop | $13,426 |
| 100 | Nutrient Management | $12,960 |
| 101 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife cover and shelter | $12,125 |
| 102 | Create patch openings to enhance wildlife food sources and availability | $11,586 |
| 103 | Stockpiling cool season forage to improve structure and composition. | $11,433 |
| 104 | Reduce forest density and manage understory along roads to improve wildlife food sources | $11,312 |
| 105 | Switch fuel source for pump motor(s) | $11,094 |
| 106 | Enhanced field borders to increase carbon storage along the edge(s) of the field | $11,078 |
| 107 | Creating structural diversity with patch openings | $10,737 |
| 108 | Prescribed grazing that improves or maintains riparian and watershed function-erosion | $10,125 |
| 109 | Conservation cover to provide cover and shelter habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects | $10,109 |
| 110 | Manage livestock access to streams/ditches/other waterbodies to reduce pathogens in surface water | $9,495 |
| 111 | Stream corridor bank stability improvement | $8,948 |
| 112 | Grazing management that protects sensitive areas from gully erosion | $8,857 |
| 113 | Pasture and Hay Planting | $7,991 |
| 114 | No till to reduce energy | $7,924 |
| 115 | Reduce forest density and manage understory along roads to limit wildfire risk | $7,634 |
| 116 | Provide early successional habitat between first rice crop and ratoon crop-food | $7,281 |
| 117 | Grazing management for improving quantity/quality of plant structure/composition for wildlife | $6,761 |
| 118 | No till to reduce water erosion | $6,560 |
| 119 | Enhanced field border to provide wildlife habitat continuity along the edge(s) of a field | $5,814 |
| 120 | Incorporating wildlife refuge areas in contingency plans for prescribed grazing-cover/shelter | $5,734 |
| 121 | Soil health crop rotation | $5,619 |
| 122 | Forage harvest management that helps maintain wildlife habitat continuity (space) | $5,511 |
| 123 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation to relieve plant pest pressure | $5,379 |
| 124 | Forage plantings that can help increase organic matter in depleted soils | $5,084 |
| 125 | Controlled traffic farming to reduce compaction | $4,974 |
| 126 | Extend retention of captured rainfall to provide habitat continuity during late winter | $4,375 |
| 127 | No till to reduce tillage induced particulate matter | $4,242 |
| 128 | Extend retention of captured rainfall to provide late winter water habitat | $4,203 |
| 129 | Deep Tillage | $4,177 |
| 130 | Native grass or legumes in forage base to provide wildlife food | $4,055 |
| 131 | Short-interval prescribed burning to promote a healthy herbaceous plant community | $3,962 |
| 132 | Extend existing filter strip to reduce excess nutrients in surface water | $3,326 |
| 133 | Use of SHA to assist with development of cover crop mix to improve soil health and increase SOM | $3,284 |
| 134 | Forage and biomass planting for water erosion to improve soil health | $3,126 |
| 135 | Extend existing filter strip to reduce excess sediment in surface water | $3,125 |
| 136 | Maintaining and improving forest soil quality | $2,953 |
| 137 | Improved grazing management for soil compaction through monitoring activities | $2,899 |
| 138 | Enhanced field border to provide wildlife food for pollinators along the edge(s) of a field | $2,866 |
| 139 | Erroneous Underpayment | $2,465 |
| 140 | Complete pumping plant eval for all pumps on a farm to determine the VFD potential | $2,427 |
| 141 | Residue and Tillage Management- Reduced Till | $2,388 |
| 142 | No till to increase plant-available moisture: moisture management | $2,335 |
| 143 | Prescribed grazing that maintains/improves riparian/watershed function-min sediment in surface water | $1,902 |
| 144 | Brush management for improved structure and composition | $1,837 |
| 145 | Forage Harvest Management | $1,786 |
| 146 | Shorebird habitat- late season shallow water with manipulation to improve food sources | $1,578 |
| 147 | Increase riparian herbaceous cover width to enhance wildlife habitat | $1,576 |
| 148 | Brush management that maintains or enhances wildlife or fish habitat | $1,511 |
| 149 | Residue and Tillage Management- No Till | $1,454 |
| 150 | Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $1,452 |
| 151 | Increase riparian forest buffer width to reduce sediment loading | $1,421 |
| 152 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation to improve soil compaction | $1,417 |
| 153 | Critical Area Planting | $1,410 |
| 154 | Prescribed grazing that maintains/improves riparian/watershed function-pathogens/chemicals | $1,404 |
| 155 | Establish and maintenance of moist soil vegetation on cropland edges to increase cover/shelter | $1,329 |
| 156 | Prescribed Burning | $1,271 |
| 157 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base | $1,258 |
| 158 | Herbaceous Weed Treatment | $1,090 |
| 159 | Increase on-site carbon storage | $1,089 |
| 160 | Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect food habitat | $954 |
| 161 | Shorebird habitat- late season shallow water with manipulation | $806 |
| 162 | Improved grazing mgmt for plant productivity/health through monitoring | $788 |
| 163 | Conservation Crop Rotation | $674 |
| 164 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base to improve plant productivity and health | $639 |
| 165 | Forest Stand Improvement | $576 |
| 166 | Fence | $432 |
| 167 | Conservation Cover | $378 |
| 168 | Increase riparian forest buffer width for nutrient reduction | $377 |
| 169 | Upland Wildlife Habitat Management | $330 |
| 170 | Heavy Use Area Protection | $325 |
| 171 | Establishing tree/shrub species to restore native plant communities | $310 |
| 172 | Stream Crossing | $243 |
| 173 | Establish and maintenance of moist soil vegetation on cropland edges to increase wildlife food | $206 |
| 174 | Roof Runoff Structure | $157 |
| 175 | Tree/Shrub Pruning | $149 |
| 176 | Brush Management | $136 |
| 177 | Establish/maintain habitat continuity- naturally occurring vegetation in ditches/ditch bank borders | $80 |
| 178 | Mulching to improve soil health | $57 |
| 179 | Increase riparian herbaceous cover width to reduce sediment loading | $49 |
| 180 | Cropland conversion to grass-based agriculture to reduce water erosion | $49 |
| 181 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation for soil organic matter improvement | $43 |
| 182 | Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect habitat continuity (space) | $29 |
| 183 | Establish Monarch butterfly habitat in pastures | $29 |
| 184 | Structures for Wildlife | $25 |
| 185 | Early Successional Habitat Development-Mgt | $6 |
| 186 | Tree/Shrub Establishment | $1 |
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| | Total Payments, 2017-2020 | 279,781,850 |
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