Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) in Georgia

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 Georgia

CSP payments by county, 2017-2022

Practices and enhancements on CSP acres, 2017-2022, Georgia

Rank	Practice	Payments, 2017-2022
1	Cropland Annual Payment	$150,107,666
2	Non-Industrial Private Forest Land Annual Payment	$21,727,634
3	Pasture Annual Payment	$9,744,237
4	Reduce risks of nutrient losses to surface water by utilizing precision ag technologies	$7,419,270
5	Planting for high carbon sequestration rate	$4,625,416
6	Sequential patch burning	$3,833,630
7	Increase stream shading for stream temperature reduction	$2,720,053
8	Advanced IWM--Soil moisture is monitored- recorded- and used in decision making	$2,055,394
9	Snags- den trees- and coarse woody debris for wildlife habitat	$1,947,130
10	Existing Activity Payment-Land Use	$1,888,535
11	Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to surface water	$1,654,538
12	Cover Crop	$1,516,988
13	Existing Activity Payment-Resource Concern	$1,508,508
14	Maintaining and improving forest soil quality by limiting compaction	$1,350,741
15	Short-interval burn	$1,252,326
16	Cover crop to reduce water erosion	$1,089,200
17	Pastured Cropland Annual Payment	$925,291
18	Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter	$893,980
19	Maintaining and improving forest soil quality	$882,421
20	Advanced Automated IWM - Year 1- Equipment and soil moisture or water level monitoring	$856,657
21	Advanced IWM--Weather is monitored- recorded and used in decision making	$794,071
22	Enhance development of the forest understory to improve site moisture	$780,468
23	Reduce risks of nutrient loss to surface water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies	$765,564
24	Increase stream shading for stream temperature reduction	$743,084
25	Maintaining and improving forest soil quality	$591,701
26	Associated Ag Land	$559,029
27	Minimum Payment Adjustment	$502,103
28	Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses	$485,554
29	Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content	$485,405
30	Advanced Automated IWM - Year 1 - Equipment and soil moisture is monitored- recorded and used in dec	$483,922
31	Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles	$418,407
32	No till system to increase soil health and soil organic matter content	$409,186
33	Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risks to air quality - emissions of GHGs	$383,619
34	Use of SHA to assist with development of cover crop mix to improve soil health and increase SOM	$373,911
35	Advanced Automated IWM - Year 2-5- Soil moisture is monitored- recorded and used in decision making	$370,079
36	Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter	$369,085
37	Reduce height of the forest understory to limit wildfire risk	$354,165
38	Forest management to enhance understory vegetation	$351,537
39	Herbaceous weed control for desired plant communities/habitats consistent with the ecological site	$347,650
40	Cover crop to minimize soil compaction	$343,396
41	Snags- den trees- and coarse woody debris for wildlife habitat	$328,973
42	Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to groundwater	$321,328
43	Reduced tillage to reduce soil erosion	$290,261
44	Reduce risks of nutrient losses to ground water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies to p	$281,638
45	Reduce forest stand density to improve a degraded plant community	$261,800
46	Cover crop to reduce soil erosion	$239,772
47	Reduce risk of pesticides in water and air by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques	$235,147
48	Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing precision pesticide application techniques	$224,558
49	Planting for high carbon sequestration rate	$206,130
50	Herbaceous weed control (plant pest pressures) for desired plant communities/habitats	$199,002
51	Enhance development of the forest understory to capture nutrients in surface water	$196,910
52	Short-interval burns to promote a healthy herbaceous plant community	$191,305
53	Enhance development of the forest understory to capture nutrients -ground water	$185,938
54	Farmstead	$169,750
55	Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients-surface water	$169,557
56	Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter	$161,815
57	Reduce forest stand density to improve wildlife food sources	$161,489
58	Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food	$160,893
59	Stockpiling cool season forage to improve plant productivity and health	$153,406
60	Native grasses or legumes in forage base to improve plant community structure and composition	$149,332
61	Herbaceous weed treatment to create plant communities consistent with the ecological site	$147,665
62	Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients	$141,419
63	Irrigation Water Management	$131,743
64	Conservation Crop Rotation	$129,965
65	Native grasses or legumes in forage base	$128,666
66	Intensive cover cropping (orchard/vineyard floor) to increase soil health and SOM content	$128,014
67	Soil health crop rotation	$126,143
68	Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses on pasture	$123,583
69	Controlled traffic farming to reduce compaction	$120,695
70	No till to reduce water erosion	$116,801
71	Resource conserving crop rotation to reduce water erosion	$115,387
72	No till to reduce energy	$113,957
73	Controlled Traffic Farming	$112,539
74	Short-interval burns to promote a healthy herbaceous plant community for wildlife food	$109,979
75	Manage livestock access to streams/ditches/other waterbodies to reduce nutrients in surface water	$102,848
76	Brush management for improved structure and composition	$99,895
77	Tree/shrub planting for wildlife cover	$99,523
78	Reduction of attractants to human-subsidized predators in sensitive wildlife species habitat	$90,298
79	Maintaining quantity and quality of forage for animal health and productivity	$88,985
80	Residue and Tillage Management- Reduced Till	$83,914
81	Supplemental Payment	$82,711
82	Residue and Tillage Management- No Till	$80,868
83	Reduce forest stand density to create open stand structure	$79,742
84	Management Intensive Rotational Grazing	$77,538
85	Conservation cover to provide food habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects	$77,341
86	Use of soil health assessment to assist with development of cover crop mix to improve soil health	$70,167
87	Pest Management Conservation System	$67,832
88	Pasture and Hay Planting	$64,383
89	Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter	$63,672
90	Establish Monarch butterfly habitat	$61,737
91	Prescribed grazing that improves or maintains riparian and watershed function-erosion	$61,479
92	Native grasses or legumes in forage base	$57,889
93	No till to increase plant-available moisture: moisture management	$57,539
94	Controlled traffic farming to reduce compaction	$57,164
95	Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content	$55,590
96	Nutrient Management	$54,285
97	Forest Stand Improvement	$54,174
98	Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles	$53,349
99	Non-Irrigated Precision Ag (MRBI)	$50,415
100	Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife food sources	$49,574
101	Conservation Cover	$47,355
102	Grazing Bundle 1 - Range and Pasture	$46,380
103	Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food	$45,616
104	Soil health crop rotation	$45,243
105	Adding food-producing trees and shrubs to existing plantings	$44,138
106	Herbaceous weed control (inadequate structure and comp) for desired plant communities/habitats	$42,731
107	Brush management to improve wildlife habitat	$42,703
108	Prescribed Grazing	$40,917
109	Herbaceous Weed Treatment	$40,849
110	Pasture Bundle#3 -- Soil Health	$38,412
111	Forage and biomass planting for water erosion to improve soil health	$38,296
112	Conservation cover to provide cover and shelter habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects	$38,060
113	Forage plantings that can help increase organic matter in depleted soils	$34,484
114	Manage livestock access to waterbodies to reduce nutrients or pathogens to surface water	$33,381
115	Establishing native grass or legumes in forage base to improve the plant community	$32,616
116	Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content	$30,536
117	Creating structural diversity with patch openings	$28,217
118	Grazing management that protects sensitive areas from gully erosion	$27,665
119	Native grasses or legumes in forage base to improve plant productivity and health	$26,938
120	Conservation cover to provide habitat continuity for pollinators and beneficial insects	$25,329
121	Complete pumping plant evaluation for all pumps on a farm.	$24,011
122	Prescribed Burning	$21,566
123	Brush Management	$15,101
124	Native grass or legumes in forage base to provide wildlife food	$13,812
125	Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife	$13,428
126	No till to increase plant-available moisture: irrigation water	$11,336
127	Create patch openings to enhance wildlife food sources and availability	$10,407
128	Mulching	$8,619
129	Create patch openings to enhance wildlife cover and shelter	$8,168
130	Brush management that maintains or enhances wildlife or fish habitat	$7,701
131	No till to reduce soil erosion	$7,608
132	Tree/Shrub Establishment	$7,590
133	Increase on-site carbon storage	$7,092
134	Critical Area Planting	$6,705
135	Enhanced field border to provide wildlife cover or shelter along the edge(s) of a field	$5,570
136	Forage plantings that help increase organic matter in depleted soils	$5,337
137	Enhanced field border to provide wildlife food for pollinators along the edge(s) of a field	$5,048
138	Improved grazing management for soil compaction on pasture through monitoring activities	$4,991
139	Upland Wildlife Habitat Management	$4,758
140	Forest Trails and Landings	$4,228
141	Firebreak	$3,323
142	Conservation cover for pollinators and beneficial insects	$2,706
143	Reduce forest density and manage understory along roads to improve wildlife food sources	$2,344
144	Field Border	$2,042
145	Grazing management that protects sensitive areas -surface or ground water from nutrients	$1,188
146	Harvest of crops (hay or small grains) using measures that allow desired species to flush or escape	$975
147	Grazing management for improving quantity and quality of food or cover and shelter for wildlife	$548
148	Early Successional Habitat Development-Mgt	$30
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	Total Payments, 2017-2022	238,016,522

NRCS 2024 climate smart practice.
NRCS 2024 provisional climate smart practice.

NCRS climate smart practices on CSP acres, 2017-2022, Georgia

Rank	Practice	Payments, 2017-2022
1	Cover Crop	$1,516,988
2	Reduce risks of nutrient loss to surface water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies	$765,564
3	Increase stream shading for stream temperature reduction	$743,084
4	Maintaining and improving forest soil quality	$591,701
5	Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses	$485,554
6	Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter	$369,085
7	Forest management to enhance understory vegetation	$351,537
8	Reduced tillage to reduce soil erosion	$290,261
9	Cover crop to reduce soil erosion	$239,772
10	Planting for high carbon sequestration rate	$206,130
11	Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter	$161,815
12	Herbaceous weed treatment to create plant communities consistent with the ecological site	$147,665
13	Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients	$141,419
14	Irrigation Water Management	$131,743
15	Conservation Crop Rotation	$129,965
16	Soil health crop rotation	$126,143
17	Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses on pasture	$123,583
18	Residue and Tillage Management- Reduced Till	$83,914
19	Residue and Tillage Management- No Till	$80,868
20	Reduce forest stand density to create open stand structure	$79,742
21	Management Intensive Rotational Grazing	$77,538
22	Pasture and Hay Planting	$64,383
23	Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content	$55,590
24	Nutrient Management	$54,285
25	Forest Stand Improvement	$54,174
26	Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles	$53,349
27	Conservation Cover	$47,355
28	Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food	$45,616
29	Brush management to improve wildlife habitat	$42,703
30	Prescribed Grazing	$40,917
31	Herbaceous Weed Treatment	$40,849
32	Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content	$30,536
33	Prescribed Burning	$21,566
34	Brush Management	$15,101
35	Mulching	$8,619
36	No till to reduce soil erosion	$7,608
37	Tree/Shrub Establishment	$7,590
38	Critical Area Planting	$6,705
39	Forage plantings that help increase organic matter in depleted soils	$5,337
40	Conservation cover for pollinators and beneficial insects	$2,706
41	Field Border	$2,042
42	Grazing management that protects sensitive areas -surface or ground water from nutrients	$1,188
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	Total Climate Smart CSP payments, 2017-2022	$7,452,290
	Climate Smart CSP payments, 2017-2022	$5,975,509
	Provisional Climate Smart CSP payments, 2017-2022	$1,476,781

NRCS 2024 climate smart practice.
NRCS 2024 provisional climate smart practice.

CSP payments by county, 2017-2022

Rank	State	CSP Payments, 2017-2022
1	Terrell County, Georgia	$5,733,745
2	Dooly County, Georgia	$5,221,177
3	Sumter County, Georgia	$4,550,164
4	Turner County, Georgia	$3,512,904
5	Brooks County, Georgia	$3,309,283
6	Early County, Georgia	$3,102,414
7	Grady County, Georgia	$2,634,123
8	Thomas County, Georgia	$2,566,791
9	Lee County, Georgia	$2,405,206
10	Laurens County, Georgia	$2,320,991
11	Worth County, Georgia	$2,235,974
12	Colquitt County, Georgia	$2,113,425
13	Bulloch County, Georgia	$2,109,787
14	Calhoun County, Georgia	$2,091,540
15	Mitchell County, Georgia	$1,987,490
16	Wilcox County, Georgia	$1,944,352
17	Crisp County, Georgia	$1,824,421
18	Emanuel County, Georgia	$1,797,020
19	Decatur County, Georgia	$1,647,658
20	Randolph County, Georgia	$1,635,748
21	Macon County, Georgia	$1,428,558
22	Screven County, Georgia	$1,385,973
23	Dodge County, Georgia	$1,278,121
24	Coffee County, Georgia	$1,249,922
25	Irwin County, Georgia	$1,214,708
26	Tattnall County, Georgia	$1,089,204
27	Candler County, Georgia	$961,925
28	Ben Hill County, Georgia	$944,761
29	Jenkins County, Georgia	$891,543
30	Webster County, Georgia	$886,605
31	Lowndes County, Georgia	$884,256
32	Stewart County, Georgia	$881,221
33	Telfair County, Georgia	$864,761
34	Clay County, Georgia	$830,830
35	Johnson County, Georgia	$643,660
36	Tift County, Georgia	$610,842
37	Pulaski County, Georgia	$575,514
38	Burke County, Georgia	$524,079
39	Washington County, Georgia	$516,369
40	Cook County, Georgia	$492,437
41	Berrien County, Georgia	$489,577
42	Toombs County, Georgia	$475,590
43	Schley County, Georgia	$443,222
44	Montgomery County, Georgia	$421,519
45	Jefferson County, Georgia	$402,030
46	Appling County, Georgia	$397,666
47	Taylor County, Georgia	$358,129
48	Seminole County, Georgia	$345,705
49	Wheeler County, Georgia	$332,669
50	Miller County, Georgia	$289,388
51	Lanier County, Georgia	$286,077
52	Floyd County, Georgia	$280,974
53	Treutlen County, Georgia	$267,662
54	Bleckley County, Georgia	$251,193
55	Evans County, Georgia	$249,732
56	Jeff Davis County, Georgia	$233,306
57	Quitman County, Georgia	$231,553
58	Dougherty County, Georgia	$188,845
59	Walton County, Georgia	$170,913
60	Hart County, Georgia	$167,549
61	Pierce County, Georgia	$166,042
62	Meriwether County, Georgia	$161,155
63	Houston County, Georgia	$159,300
64	Wilkinson County, Georgia	$151,506
65	Baker County, Georgia	$141,715
66	Ware County, Georgia	$136,822
67	Oconee County, Georgia	$129,236
68	Polk County, Georgia	$128,362
69	Madison County, Georgia	$125,055
70	Pike County, Georgia	$124,220
71	Marion County, Georgia	$124,075
72	Peach County, Georgia	$112,231
73	Warren County, Georgia	$101,416
74	Echols County, Georgia	$98,646
75	Crawford County, Georgia	$83,222
76	Clarke County, Georgia	$78,895
77	Murray County, Georgia	$76,974
78	Bryan County, Georgia	$75,034
79	Bacon County, Georgia	$74,548
80	Twiggs County, Georgia	$73,953
81	Upson County, Georgia	$67,367
82	Morgan County, Georgia	$67,184
83	Harris County, Georgia	$65,690
84	Wilkes County, Georgia	$62,437
85	Glascock County, Georgia	$61,839
86	Wayne County, Georgia	$55,820
87	Oglethorpe County, Georgia	$52,649
88	Talbot County, Georgia	$51,593
89	Bartow County, Georgia	$47,859
90	Jones County, Georgia	$44,046
91	Gordon County, Georgia	$42,105
92	Franklin County, Georgia	$40,962
93	McDuffie County, Georgia	$40,338
94	Hancock County, Georgia	$36,758
95	Elbert County, Georgia	$36,396
96	Chattooga County, Georgia	$34,369
97	Lincoln County, Georgia	$33,718
98	Atkinson County, Georgia	$32,720
99	Monroe County, Georgia	$31,502
100	Walker County, Georgia	$30,515
101	Richmond County, Georgia	$30,439
102	Newton County, Georgia	$26,448
103	Butts County, Georgia	$23,912
104	Brantley County, Georgia	$23,111
105	Whitfield County, Georgia	$21,098
106	Banks County, Georgia	$19,840
107	Lamar County, Georgia	$16,882
108	Jasper County, Georgia	$16,039
109	Coweta County, Georgia	$12,139
110	Hall County, Georgia	$9,672
111	Troup County, Georgia	$7,854
112	Carroll County, Georgia	$7,071
113	Dade County, Georgia	$6,919
114	Catoosa County, Georgia	$6,326
115	Taliaferro County, Georgia	$5,869
116	Heard County, Georgia	$5,677
117	Jackson County, Georgia	$4,712
118	Fannin County, Georgia	$4,652
119	Cobb County, Georgia	$4,559
120	Greene County, Georgia	$4,388
121	Dawson County, Georgia	$3,710
122	Pickens County, Georgia	$2,887
123	Effingham County, Georgia	$2,742
124	Chattahoochee County, Georgia	$1,687
125	Spalding County, Georgia	$1,625
126	Forsyth County, Georgia	$405
127	Cherokee County, Georgia	$370
128	Barrow County, Georgia	$247
129	Baldwin County, Georgia	$0
130	Bibb County, Georgia	$0
131	Camden County, Georgia	$0
132	Charlton County, Georgia	$0
133	Chatham County, Georgia	$0
134	Clayton County, Georgia	$0
135	Clinch County, Georgia	$0
136	Columbia County, Georgia	$0
137	DeKalb County, Georgia	$0
138	Douglas County, Georgia	$0
139	Fayette County, Georgia	$0
140	Fulton County, Georgia	$0
141	Gilmer County, Georgia	$0
142	Glynn County, Georgia	$0
143	Gwinnett County, Georgia	$0
144	Habersham County, Georgia	$0
145	Haralson County, Georgia	$0
146	Henry County, Georgia	$0
147	Liberty County, Georgia	$0
148	Long County, Georgia	$0
149	Lumpkin County, Georgia	$0
150	McIntosh County, Georgia	$0
151	Muscogee County, Georgia	$0
152	Paulding County, Georgia	$0
153	Putnam County, Georgia	$0
154	Rabun County, Georgia	$0
155	Rockdale County, Georgia	$0
156	Stephens County, Georgia	$0
157	Towns County, Georgia	$0
158	Union County, Georgia	$0
159	White County, Georgia	$0
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USDA Census of Agriculture Data for Georgia, 2022

Land in Georgia, 2022

Land type	Acres
Number of Farms:	39,264
Total Acres in Farms:	9,939,313
Cropland Acres:	4,523,728
Permanent pasture and rangeland:	1,177,580
Woodland Acres:	3,489,201

Livestock in Georgia, 2022

Livestock	Number of Animals
Broilers and other meat-type chickens sold	1,300,052,315
Layers inventory	22,129,571
Cattle and calves inventory	1,000,560
Hogs and pigs inventory	41,671
Sheep and lambs inventory	26,839

Crops in Georgia, 2022

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