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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 Georgia, 2022
Land in Georgia, 2022
Land type | Acres |
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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 |
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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 |