| 1 | Cropland Annual Payment | $136,691,127 |
| 2 | Reduce risks of nutrient losses to surface water by utilizing precision ag technologies | $1,426,698 |
| 3 | Pasture Annual Payment | $1,356,925 |
| 4 | Existing Activity Payment-Land Use | $962,425 |
| 5 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing precision pesticide application techniques | $671,904 |
| 6 | Non-Industrial Private Forest Land Annual Payment | $655,223 |
| 7 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risks to air quality - emissions of GHGs | $605,395 |
| 8 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to surface water | $500,992 |
| 9 | Cover Crop  | $339,817 |
| 10 | Farmstead | $251,545 |
| 11 | Associated Ag Land | $249,711 |
| 12 | Minimum Payment Adjustment | $228,271 |
| 13 | Existing Activity Payment-Resource Concern | $227,910 |
| 14 | Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles | $197,884 |
| 15 | Reduce forest stand density to improve a degraded plant community | $193,941 |
| 16 | Crop tree management for mast production | $189,025 |
| 17 | Cover crop to minimize soil compaction | $183,778 |
| 18 | Improved crop rotation to provide benefits to pollinators | $179,573 |
| 19 | Pastured Cropland Annual Payment | $132,288 |
| 20 | Establish Monarch butterfly habitat | $131,134 |
| 21 | Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $107,334 |
| 22 | Supplemental Payment | $105,161 |
| 23 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife food sources | $94,563 |
| 24 | Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $84,564 |
| 25 | No till system to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $70,265 |
| 26 | Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients-surface water | $67,258 |
| 27 | Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $62,756 |
| 28 | Reduced tillage to reduce water erosion | $56,227 |
| 29 | Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $48,407 |
| 30 | Cover crop to reduce water erosion | $47,617 |
| 31 | Enhanced field borders to reduce water induced erosion along the edge(s) of a field | $44,101 |
| 32 | Use of SHA to assist with development of cover crop mix to improve soil health and increase SOM | $40,406 |
| 33 | Herbaceous weed control (plant pest pressures) for desired plant communities/habitats | $38,757 |
| 34 | Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles | $32,916 |
| 35 | Resource conserving crop rotation to improve soil compaction | $30,413 |
| 36 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to groundwater | $29,640 |
| 37 | No till to reduce water erosion | $29,309 |
| 38 | Improved crop rotation to provide benefits to pollinators | $28,962 |
| 39 | Residue and Tillage Management- No Till | $27,821 |
| 40 | Pasture and Hay Planting | $26,545 |
| 41 | Reduce risks of nutrient losses to ground water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies to p | $23,804 |
| 42 | Herbaceous Weed Treatment | $19,603 |
| 43 | Pest Management Conservation System | $18,921 |
| 44 | Enhanced field borders to increase carbon storage along the edge(s) of the field | $17,184 |
| 45 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife | $16,114 |
| 46 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques | $15,442 |
| 47 | Brush management for improved structure and composition | $14,643 |
| 48 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife cover and shelter | $14,634 |
| 49 | Forest Stand Improvement | $13,687 |
| 50 | Establishing tree/shrub species to restore native plant communities | $13,289 |
| 51 | Conservation Crop Rotation | $12,199 |
| 52 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing precision pesticide application techniques | $11,969 |
| 53 | Apply gypsum products to improve surface WQ quality by reducing dissolved P conc in surface runoff | $11,952 |
| 54 | Conservation cover to provide food habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects | $11,741 |
| 55 | Soil health crop rotation | $11,517 |
| 56 | Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $10,168 |
| 57 | Nutrient Management | $9,387 |
| 58 | Brush Management | $7,973 |
| 59 | Herbaceous weed control for desired plant communities/habitats consistent with the ecological site | $7,273 |
| 60 | Residue and Tillage Management- Reduced Till | $6,784 |
| 61 | Short-interval burn | $5,804 |
| 62 | No till system to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $5,312 |
| 63 | Snags- den trees- and coarse woody debris for wildlife habitat | $4,690 |
| 64 | Enhance development of the forest understory to capture nutrients in surface water | $4,676 |
| 65 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food | $4,558 |
| 66 | Forage and biomass planting for water erosion to improve soil health | $4,514 |
| 67 | Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients-ground water | $4,448 |
| 68 | Extend existing filter strip to reduce excess sediment in surface water | $4,379 |
| 69 | Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $4,376 |
| 70 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base | $4,367 |
| 71 | Enhancement - Soil Management | $4,203 |
| 72 | Conservation cover to provide cover and shelter habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects | $4,053 |
| 73 | Crop tree management for mast production | $3,851 |
| 74 | Sequential patch burning | $3,761 |
| 75 | Enhanced field border to provide wildlife cover or shelter along the edge(s) of a field | $3,480 |
| 76 | Cover crop to reduce soil erosion | $3,430 |
| 77 | No till to reduce energy | $3,183 |
| 78 | Grassed Waterway | $3,096 |
| 79 | Grade Stabilization Structure | $3,075 |
| 80 | Resource conserving crop rotation to reduce water erosion | $2,899 |
| 81 | Cultural plantings | $2,858 |
| 82 | Manage livestock access to streams/ditches/other waterbodies to reduce nutrients in surface water | $2,773 |
| 83 | Facilitating oak forest regeneration | $2,512 |
| 84 | Enhanced field border to provide wildlife food for pollinators along the edge(s) of a field | $2,502 |
| 85 | Conservation Cover | $2,500 |
| 86 | No till to reduce tillage induced particulate matter | $2,241 |
| 87 | Stewardship Payment | $2,103 |
| 88 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base to improve plant community structure and composition | $2,040 |
| 89 | Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $2,020 |
| 90 | Maintaining and improving forest soil quality | $1,870 |
| 91 | Planting for high carbon sequestration rate | $1,850 |
| 92 | Complete pumping plant evaluation for all pumps on a farm. | $1,775 |
| 93 | Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $1,638 |
| 94 | Erroneous Underpayment | $1,637 |
| 95 | Enhancement - Pest Management | $1,534 |
| 96 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife cover | $1,514 |
| 97 | Adding food-producing trees and shrubs to existing plantings | $1,460 |
| 98 | Tree/Shrub Establishment | $1,407 |
| 99 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base to improve plant productivity and health | $1,328 |
| 100 | Cropland conversion to grass-based agriculture for soil organic matter improvement | $1,278 |
| 101 | Critical Area Planting | $1,245 |
| 102 | Herbaceous weed treatment to create plant communities consistent with the ecological site | $1,181 |
| 103 | Supplemental Payment Improved | $1,113 |
| 104 | Extend existing filter strip to reduce excess nutrients in surface water | $1,103 |
| 105 | Enhancement - Drainage Management | $1,029 |
| 106 | Forage plantings that enhance bird habitat (structure and composition) | $978 |
| 107 | Enhancement - Water Management | $926 |
| 108 | Enhancement - Nutrient Management | $901 |
| 109 | Equitable Relief Payment | $893 |
| 110 | Manage livestock access to streams/ditches/other waterbodies to reduce pathogens in surface water | $874 |
| 111 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation to improve soil compaction | $777 |
| 112 | Brush management that maintains or enhances wildlife or fish habitat | $719 |
| 113 | Harvest of crops (hay or small grains) using measures that allow desired species to flush or escape | $698 |
| 114 | Tree/Shrub Site Preparation | $697 |
| 115 | Forage harvest management that helps maintain wildlife habitat continuity (space) | $695 |
| 116 | Stockpiling cool season forage to improve plant productivity and health | $681 |
| 117 | Field Border | $678 |
| 118 | Roof Runoff Structure | $628 |
| 119 | Reduce risk of pesticides in water and air by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques | $621 |
| 120 | Subsurface Drain | $620 |
| 121 | Conservation cover to provide habitat continuity for pollinators and beneficial insects | $571 |
| 122 | Brush management to improve wildlife habitat | $571 |
| 123 | Forage plantings that can help increase organic matter in depleted soils | $540 |
| 124 | Existing Practice Payment | $526 |
| 125 | Creating structural diversity with patch openings | $513 |
| 126 | Prescribed Grazing | $444 |
| 127 | Conservation crop rotation on recently converted CRP grass/legume cover for SOM improvement | $366 |
| 128 | Increase riparian forest buffer width for nutrient reduction | $356 |
| 129 | Prescribed Burning | $351 |
| 130 | No till to increase plant-available moisture: moisture management | $335 |
| 131 | Filter Strip | $301 |
| 132 | Amending Soil Properties with Gypsum Products | $185 |
| 133 | Cropland conversion to grass-based agriculture to reduce water erosion | $184 |
| 134 | Firebreak | $169 |
| 135 | Tree/Shrub Pruning | $157 |
| 136 | Harvest of crops (hay or small grains) using measures that allow desired species to flush or escape | $89 |
| 137 | Forage harvest management that helps maintain or improve wildlife habitat (cover and shelter) | $87 |
| 138 | Increase on-site carbon storage | $78 |
| 139 | Forage and biomass planting that produces feedstock for biofuels or energy production | $73 |
| 140 | Herbaceous weed control (inadequate structure and comp) for desired plant communities/habitats | $65 |
| 141 | Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect habitat continuity (space) | $60 |
| 142 | Enhancement - Energy Management | $50 |
| 143 | Native grass or legumes in forage base to provide wildlife food | $29 |
| 144 | Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect food habitat | $29 |
| 145 | Forage Harvest Management | $14 |
| 146 | Cropland conversion to grass-based agriculture to reduce sediment loading | $6 |
| 147 | Early Successional Habitat Development-Mgt | $4 |
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| | Total Payments, 2017-2020 | 146,861,075 |
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