Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) in Arkansas
The state-level CSP data only includes practices that had more than four contracts in a state for a particular year. Because of this, the data contained within the state pages will not sum up to the total payments by practice on the national page.
CSP payments by fiscal year in Arkansas
CSP payments by county, 2017-2022
Practices and enhancements on CSP acres, 2017-2022, Arkansas
Rank | Practice | Payments, 2017-2022 |
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1 | Cropland Annual Payment | $263,075,749 |
2 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing precision pesticide application techniques | $11,240,881 |
3 | Reduce risks of nutrient losses to surface water by utilizing precision ag technologies | $10,915,526 |
4 | Pasture Annual Payment | $8,751,845 |
5 | Close structures to capture/retain rainfall to improve food for waterfowl/wading birds during winter | $5,784,714 |
6 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to surface water | $5,100,193 |
7 | Non-Industrial Private Forest Land Annual Payment | $4,531,360 |
8 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques | $3,663,277 |
9 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risks to air quality - emissions of GHGs | $3,486,518 |
10 | Existing Activity Payment-Land Use | $3,424,862 |
11 | Close structures to capture and retain rainfall to improve cover and shelter for birds during winter | $2,935,514 |
12 | Reduce ozone precursor emissions related to pesticides by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques | $2,154,319 |
13 | Intermittent flooding of rice fields | $2,051,745 |
14 | Controlled traffic farming to reduce compaction | $1,926,323 |
15 | Manipulate vegetation on fields where rainfall is to be captured and retained-food | $1,875,187 |
16 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife cover | $1,647,631 |
17 | Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $1,517,294 |
18 | Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles | $1,389,939 |
19 | Advanced IWM--Weather is monitored- recorded and used in decision making | $1,344,492 |
20 | Reduced tillage to reduce water erosion | $1,309,904 |
21 | Stream habitat improvement through placement of woody biomass | $1,245,780 |
22 | Pastured Cropland Annual Payment | $1,134,231 |
23 | Existing Activity Payment-Resource Concern | $1,113,448 |
24 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to groundwater | $1,050,900 |
25 | Manipulate vegetation on fields where rainfall is to be captured and retained-cover/shelter | $841,690 |
26 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses | $833,964 |
27 | Reduce risk of pesticides in water and air by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques | $738,737 |
28 | Close structures to capture and retain rainfall for birds to improve habitat continuity | $737,314 |
29 | Reduce risks of nutrient loss to surface water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies | $714,084 |
30 | Sequential patch burning | $678,791 |
31 | Provide early successional habitat between first rice crop and ratoon crop-continuity | $606,196 |
32 | Advanced Automated IWM - Year 1 - Equipment and soil moisture is monitored- recorded and used in dec | $601,942 |
33 | Close structures to capture and retain rainfall to provide water for birds during winter | $575,130 |
34 | Extend retention of captured rainfall to provide enhanced cover and shelter for late winter habitat | $537,865 |
35 | Farmstead | $521,157 |
36 | Close structures to capture and retain rainfall for waterfowl and wading bird winter habitat | $505,443 |
37 | Reduce height of the forest understory to limit wildfire risk | $462,783 |
38 | Advanced IWM--Soil moisture is monitored- recorded- and used in decision making | $447,616 |
39 | Forest Stand Improvement to rehabilitate degraded hardwood stands | $442,579 |
40 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing precision pesticide application techniques | $437,338 |
41 | Reduce risks of nutrient losses to ground water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies to p | $420,668 |
42 | Minimum Payment Adjustment | $399,938 |
43 | Pest Management Conservation System | $374,812 |
44 | Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture: irrigation water | $372,278 |
45 | Advanced Automated IWM - Year 1- Equipment and soil moisture or water level monitoring | $342,710 |
46 | Associated Ag Land | $327,810 |
47 | Supplemental Payment | $313,895 |
48 | Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients-surface water | $300,081 |
49 | Reduced tillage to reduce energy use | $297,899 |
50 | Manipulate vegetation on fields with captured rainfall for waterfowl & wading bird winter habitat | $284,188 |
51 | Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $282,542 |
52 | Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture: moisture management | $272,293 |
53 | Intermediate IWM - Year 1- Equipment with Soil or Water Level monitoring | $261,850 |
54 | Advanced Automated IWM - Year 2-5- Soil moisture is monitored- recorded and used in decision making | $255,254 |
55 | Forest management to enhance understory vegetation | $238,448 |
56 | Reduce forest stand density to improve a degraded plant community | $224,286 |
57 | Harvest of crops (hay or small grains) using measures that allow desired species to flush or escape | $223,794 |
58 | Crop tree management for mast production | $205,894 |
59 | Short-interval burns to promote a healthy herbaceous plant community for wildlife food | $199,227 |
60 | Nutrient Management | $190,003 |
61 | Residue and Tillage Management- Reduced Till | $189,012 |
62 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife food sources | $184,409 |
63 | Herbaceous weed control (plant pest pressures) for desired plant communities/habitats | $182,822 |
64 | Cover crop to minimize soil compaction | $180,025 |
65 | Cover crop to reduce water erosion | $171,397 |
66 | Reduced tillage to reduce tillage induced particulate matter | $165,865 |
67 | Reduced tillage to reduce soil erosion | $157,040 |
68 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food | $151,688 |
69 | Enhance development of the forest understory to improve site moisture | $141,425 |
70 | Irrigation Water Management | $134,455 |
71 | Enhance development of the forest understory to create conditions resistant to pests | $132,856 |
72 | Cover Crop | $120,469 |
73 | Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients-ground water | $118,771 |
74 | Clipping mature forages to set back vegetative growth for improved forage quality | $113,588 |
75 | Establish Monarch butterfly habitat | $108,229 |
76 | Enhance development of the forest understory to capture nutrients in surface water | $107,658 |
77 | Controlled traffic farming to reduce compaction | $106,175 |
78 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation to reduce water erosion | $105,634 |
79 | Short-interval burns to promote a healthy herbaceous plant community | $104,042 |
80 | Stockpiling cool season forage to improve plant productivity and health | $98,223 |
81 | Resource conserving crop rotation to improve soil compaction | $85,912 |
82 | Implementing Bale or Swath Grazing to increase organic matter and reduce nutrients in surface water | $81,901 |
83 | Automated Intermittent flood irrigation of rice fields- Year 2-5 | $80,536 |
84 | Prescribed grazing that maintains/improves riparian/watershed function impairment from nutrients | $78,991 |
85 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food | $77,640 |
86 | Maintaining and improving forest soil quality by limiting compaction | $74,245 |
87 | Resource conserving crop rotation | $73,053 |
88 | Establish Monarch butterfly habitat | $70,881 |
89 | Enhance development of the forest understory to provide wildlife cover and shelter | $66,814 |
90 | Snags- den trees- and coarse woody debris for wildlife habitat | $65,090 |
91 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation to relieve plant pest pressure | $65,005 |
92 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife | $64,585 |
93 | Conservation Crop Rotation | $62,548 |
94 | Resource conserving crop rotation to relieve plant pest pressure | $55,682 |
95 | Early Successional Habitat Development-Mgt | $55,037 |
96 | Conservation cover to provide food habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects | $51,024 |
97 | Resource conserving crop rotation to reduce water erosion | $50,954 |
98 | Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture | $50,447 |
99 | Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $49,448 |
100 | Herbaceous weed treatment to create plant communities consistent with the ecological site | $49,180 |
101 | Prescribed Grazing | $47,825 |
102 | Shallow Water Development and Management | $43,392 |
103 | No till system to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $38,339 |
104 | No till to increase plant-available moisture: irrigation water | $35,335 |
105 | Create patch openings to enhance wildlife cover and shelter | $30,573 |
106 | Creating structural diversity with patch openings | $30,078 |
107 | Enhanced field border to provide wildlife food for pollinators along the edge(s) of a field | $30,077 |
108 | Short-interval burn | $29,929 |
109 | Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $29,518 |
110 | Reduced tillage to reduce tillage induced particulate matter | $28,775 |
111 | Maintaining quantity and quality of forage for animal health and productivity | $26,739 |
112 | Harvest of crops (hay or small grains) using measures that allow desired species to flush or escape | $26,170 |
113 | Adding food-producing trees and shrubs to existing plantings | $25,987 |
114 | Extend retention of rainfall to provide food for late winter habitat | $24,763 |
115 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses on pasture | $23,334 |
116 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife cover and shelter | $22,905 |
117 | Reduce forest stand density to improve wildlife food sources | $21,967 |
118 | Firebreak | $20,538 |
119 | Reduced tillage to reduce energy use | $20,480 |
120 | Conservation cover to provide habitat continuity for pollinators and beneficial insects | $18,709 |
121 | Forage harvest management that helps maintain wildlife habitat cover- shelter or continuity | $18,416 |
122 | Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $18,237 |
123 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base to improve plant community structure and composition | $17,573 |
124 | Cover crop to reduce soil erosion | $15,887 |
125 | Forest Stand Improvement | $15,422 |
126 | Resource conserving crop rotation for soil organic matter improvement | $15,171 |
127 | Creating structural diversity with patch openings | $15,109 |
128 | Herbaceous weed control for desired plant communities/habitats consistent with the ecological site | $14,846 |
129 | Enhanced field borders to reduce water induced erosion along the edge(s) of a field | $14,301 |
130 | Residue and Tillage Management- No Till | $13,650 |
131 | No till to reduce soil erosion | $13,179 |
132 | Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles | $13,083 |
133 | Cover crop to minimize soil compaction | $12,447 |
134 | Herbaceous Weed Treatment | $11,088 |
135 | Pasture and Hay Planting | $10,889 |
136 | No till to reduce water erosion | $10,285 |
137 | Grazing management that protects sensitive areas from gully erosion | $9,851 |
138 | Forage Harvest Management | $9,829 |
139 | Conservation cover to provide cover and shelter habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects | $9,738 |
140 | Prescribed grazing that improves or maintains riparian and watershed function-erosion | $9,024 |
141 | Grazing management for improving quantity/quality of plant structure/composition for wildlife | $7,344 |
142 | Create patch openings to enhance wildlife food sources and availability | $7,321 |
143 | Forage harvest management that helps maintain wildlife habitat continuity (space) | $6,420 |
144 | Conservation Cover | $6,389 |
145 | Establishing tree/shrub species to restore native plant communities | $6,306 |
146 | Prescribed Burning | $5,286 |
147 | Use of body condition scoring for livestock on a monthly basis to keep track of herd health | $4,745 |
148 | Forage plantings that can help increase organic matter in depleted soils | $4,653 |
149 | Tree/Shrub Establishment | $3,528 |
150 | No till to reduce tillage induced particulate matter | $3,445 |
151 | Deep Tillage | $3,394 |
152 | Conservation cover for pollinators and beneficial insects | $2,894 |
153 | Field Border | $1,833 |
154 | Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $1,664 |
155 | Critical Area Planting | $1,347 |
156 | Brush management that maintains or enhances wildlife or fish habitat | $1,099 |
157 | No till to increase plant-available moisture: moisture management | $930 |
158 | Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect food habitat | $879 |
159 | Upland Wildlife Habitat Management | $273 |
160 | Establish and maintenance of moist soil vegetation on cropland edges to increase wildlife food | $235 |
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Total Payments, 2017-2022 | 363,469,416 |
NRCS 2024 climate smart practice.
NRCS 2024 provisional climate smart practice.
NCRS climate smart practices on CSP acres, 2017-2022, Arkansas
Rank | Practice | Payments, 2017-2022 |
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1 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses | $833,964 |
2 | Reduce risks of nutrient loss to surface water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies | $714,084 |
3 | Forest management to enhance understory vegetation | $238,448 |
4 | Nutrient Management | $190,003 |
5 | Residue and Tillage Management- Reduced Till | $189,012 |
6 | Reduced tillage to reduce soil erosion | $157,040 |
7 | Irrigation Water Management | $134,455 |
8 | Cover Crop | $120,469 |
9 | Clipping mature forages to set back vegetative growth for improved forage quality | $113,588 |
10 | Implementing Bale or Swath Grazing to increase organic matter and reduce nutrients in surface water | $81,901 |
11 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food | $77,640 |
12 | Resource conserving crop rotation | $73,053 |
13 | Establish Monarch butterfly habitat | $70,881 |
14 | Conservation Crop Rotation | $62,548 |
15 | Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture | $50,447 |
16 | Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $49,448 |
17 | Herbaceous weed treatment to create plant communities consistent with the ecological site | $49,180 |
18 | Prescribed Grazing | $47,825 |
19 | Creating structural diversity with patch openings | $30,078 |
20 | Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $29,518 |
21 | Reduced tillage to reduce tillage induced particulate matter | $28,775 |
22 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses on pasture | $23,334 |
23 | Reduced tillage to reduce energy use | $20,480 |
24 | Cover crop to reduce soil erosion | $15,887 |
25 | Forest Stand Improvement | $15,422 |
26 | Residue and Tillage Management- No Till | $13,650 |
27 | No till to reduce soil erosion | $13,179 |
28 | Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles | $13,083 |
29 | Cover crop to minimize soil compaction | $12,447 |
30 | Herbaceous Weed Treatment | $11,088 |
31 | Pasture and Hay Planting | $10,889 |
32 | Conservation Cover | $6,389 |
33 | Prescribed Burning | $5,286 |
34 | Tree/Shrub Establishment | $3,528 |
35 | Conservation cover for pollinators and beneficial insects | $2,894 |
36 | Field Border | $1,833 |
37 | Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $1,664 |
38 | Critical Area Planting | $1,347 |
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Total Climate Smart CSP payments, 2017-2022 | $3,514,757 | |
Climate Smart CSP payments, 2017-2022 | $3,030,800 | |
Provisional Climate Smart CSP payments, 2017-2022 | $483,957 |
NRCS 2024 climate smart practice.
NRCS 2024 provisional climate smart practice.
CSP payments by county, 2017-2022
Rank | State | CSP Payments, 2017-2022 |
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1 | Jefferson County, Arkansas | $12,544,586 |
2 | Arkansas County, Arkansas | $8,843,379 |
3 | Chicot County, Arkansas | $7,398,910 |
4 | White County, Arkansas | $6,914,203 |
5 | Jackson County, Arkansas | $6,663,496 |
6 | Prairie County, Arkansas | $6,276,625 |
7 | Lonoke County, Arkansas | $5,893,750 |
8 | Cross County, Arkansas | $5,814,836 |
9 | Desha County, Arkansas | $4,007,422 |
10 | Crittenden County, Arkansas | $3,937,465 |
11 | Lincoln County, Arkansas | $3,512,609 |
12 | Ashley County, Arkansas | $3,033,529 |
13 | Woodruff County, Arkansas | $2,654,605 |
14 | Clay County, Arkansas | $2,240,600 |
15 | Drew County, Arkansas | $2,228,131 |
16 | Independence County, Arkansas | $2,146,440 |
17 | Monroe County, Arkansas | $1,991,037 |
18 | Yell County, Arkansas | $1,839,995 |
19 | Saint Francis County, Arkansas | $1,733,876 |
20 | Pulaski County, Arkansas | $1,509,170 |
21 | Lawrence County, Arkansas | $1,372,566 |
22 | Phillips County, Arkansas | $1,334,427 |
23 | Greene County, Arkansas | $1,183,683 |
24 | Poinsett County, Arkansas | $1,161,191 |
25 | Lee County, Arkansas | $941,808 |
26 | Craighead County, Arkansas | $856,314 |
27 | Pope County, Arkansas | $599,181 |
28 | Miller County, Arkansas | $444,014 |
29 | Perry County, Arkansas | $386,620 |
30 | Mississippi County, Arkansas | $349,309 |
31 | Faulkner County, Arkansas | $340,902 |
32 | Clark County, Arkansas | $233,565 |
33 | Crawford County, Arkansas | $220,186 |
34 | Hempstead County, Arkansas | $178,147 |
35 | Randolph County, Arkansas | $172,740 |
36 | Conway County, Arkansas | $103,223 |
37 | Nevada County, Arkansas | $98,246 |
38 | Franklin County, Arkansas | $93,719 |
39 | Scott County, Arkansas | $82,647 |
40 | Dallas County, Arkansas | $66,032 |
41 | Sharp County, Arkansas | $50,239 |
42 | Calhoun County, Arkansas | $50,019 |
43 | Ouachita County, Arkansas | $37,737 |
44 | Little River County, Arkansas | $34,488 |
45 | Madison County, Arkansas | $29,701 |
46 | Washington County, Arkansas | $29,387 |
47 | Boone County, Arkansas | $29,057 |
48 | Cleburne County, Arkansas | $28,602 |
49 | Sevier County, Arkansas | $26,590 |
50 | Carroll County, Arkansas | $25,866 |
51 | Baxter County, Arkansas | $23,904 |
52 | Searcy County, Arkansas | $23,386 |
53 | Bradley County, Arkansas | $22,097 |
54 | Johnson County, Arkansas | $15,733 |
55 | Cleveland County, Arkansas | $15,180 |
56 | Benton County, Arkansas | $11,364 |
57 | Logan County, Arkansas | $10,888 |
58 | Montgomery County, Arkansas | $6,880 |
59 | Fulton County, Arkansas | $6,752 |
60 | Hot Spring County, Arkansas | $5,249 |
61 | Stone County, Arkansas | $4,838 |
62 | Izard County, Arkansas | $683 |
63 | Garland County, Arkansas | $374 |
64 | Grant County, Arkansas | $164 |
65 | Saline County, Arkansas | $129 |
66 | Pike County, Arkansas | $0 |
67 | Marion County, Arkansas | $0 |
68 | Lafayette County, Arkansas | $0 |
69 | Newton County, Arkansas | $0 |
70 | Van Buren County, Arkansas | $0 |
71 | Union County, Arkansas | $0 |
72 | Howard County, Arkansas | $0 |
73 | Sebastian County, Arkansas | $0 |
74 | Columbia County, Arkansas | $0 |
75 | Polk County, Arkansas | $0 |
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The state-level CSP data only includes practices that had more than four contracts in a state for a particular year. Because of this, the data contained within the state pages will not sum up to the total payments by practice on the national page.
USDA Census of Agriculture Data for Arkansas, 2022
Land in Arkansas, 2022
Land type | Acres |
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Number of Farms: | 37,756 |
Total Acres in Farms: | 13,722,525 |
Cropland Acres: | 7,940,501 |
Permanent pasture and rangeland: | 2,867,979 |
Woodland Acres: | 2,383,238 |
Livestock in Arkansas, 2022
Livestock | Number of Animals |
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Broilers and other meat-type chickens sold | 1,045,855,386 |
Layers inventory | 14,421,929 |
Cattle and calves inventory | 1,588,074 |
Hogs and pigs inventory | 145,376 |
Sheep and lambs inventory | 32,485 |