Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) in Mississippi

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 Mississippi

CSP payments by county, 2017-2022

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

Rank	Practice	Payments, 2017-2022
1	Cropland Annual Payment	$159,935,751
2	Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing precision pesticide application techniques	$40,078,207
3	Reduce risks of nutrient losses to surface water by utilizing precision ag technologies	$29,089,196
4	Pasture Annual Payment	$9,092,514
5	Summer roosting habitat for native forest-dwelling bat species	$8,987,806
6	Non-Industrial Private Forest Land Annual Payment	$8,521,082
7	Associated Ag Land	$7,196,656
8	Farmstead	$6,386,920
9	Establish Monarch butterfly habitat	$6,139,366
10	Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content	$6,002,120
11	Reduce ozone precursor emissions related to pesticides by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques	$4,908,885
12	Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to surface water	$4,343,387
13	Snags- den trees- and coarse woody debris for wildlife habitat	$4,134,776
14	Existing Activity Payment-Land Use	$1,852,595
15	Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to groundwater	$1,849,298
16	Longleaf Pine Bundle#2	$1,830,713
17	Maintaining and improving forest soil quality by limiting compaction	$1,786,565
18	Resource conserving crop rotation to reduce water erosion	$1,762,802
19	Prescribed grazing that maintains/improves riparian/watershed function-pathogens/chemicals	$1,754,244
20	MRBI Bundle#1 - Irrigated Cropland	$1,567,724
21	Summer roosting habitat for native forest-dwelling bat species	$1,411,109
22	Existing Activity Payment-Resource Concern	$1,282,571
23	Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing precision pesticide application techniques	$1,102,523
24	Herbaceous weed control for desired plant communities/habitats consistent with the ecological site	$1,010,842
25	Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risks to air quality - emissions of GHGs	$820,994
26	Reduce risks of nutrient loss to surface water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies	$816,866
27	Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques	$770,391
28	Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses	$759,578
29	Reduced tillage to reduce water erosion	$757,190
30	Pastured Cropland Annual Payment	$742,457
31	Advanced IWM--Soil moisture is monitored- recorded- and used in decision making	$738,130
32	Short-interval burn	$735,475
33	Reduce risk of pesticides in water and air by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques	$691,068
34	Sequential patch burning	$655,226
35	Minimum Payment Adjustment	$622,255
36	Crop Bundle #19 - Soil Health Precision Ag	$585,278
37	Increase riparian forest buffer width to enhance wildlife habitat	$488,141
38	Clipping mature forages to set back vegetative growth for improved forage quality	$473,744
39	Snags- den trees- and coarse woody debris for wildlife habitat	$435,755
40	Intermittent flooding of rice fields	$418,034
41	Pest Management Conservation System	$395,062
42	MRBI Bundle#2 - Non-Irrigated Cropland #1	$359,300
43	Short-interval burns to promote a healthy herbaceous plant community for wildlife food	$331,114
44	Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles	$327,466
45	Cover crop to minimize soil compaction	$316,852
46	Reduced tillage to reduce soil erosion	$315,590
47	Establish Monarch butterfly habitat	$308,429
48	Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter	$287,902
49	Close structures to capture/retain rainfall to improve food for waterfowl/wading birds during winter	$286,494
50	Crop tree management for mast production	$242,495
51	Short-interval burns to promote a healthy herbaceous plant community	$241,671
52	Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food	$239,626
53	Forest management to enhance understory vegetation	$237,980
54	Increase on-site carbon storage	$237,632
55	Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses on pasture	$237,224
56	Maintaining and improving forest soil quality	$236,188
57	Advanced IWM--Weather is monitored- recorded and used in decision making	$232,825
58	Maintaining and improving forest soil quality	$222,328
59	Herbaceous weed treatment to create plant communities consistent with the ecological site	$205,281
60	Enhance development of the forest understory to improve site moisture	$201,482
61	Cover crop to reduce water erosion	$192,497
62	Tree/shrub planting for wildlife cover	$172,016
63	YEAR 2+ Irrigated Cropland (MRBI/Ogallala)	$170,653
64	Residue and Tillage Management- Reduced Till	$160,593
65	Prescribed Grazing	$140,159
66	Enhance development of the forest understory to capture nutrients -ground water	$136,169
67	Pasture Bundle 5	$128,360
68	Herbaceous Weed Treatment	$122,317
69	Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food	$121,891
70	Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture: moisture management	$106,162
71	Reduce risks of nutrient losses to ground water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies to p	$105,387
72	Resource conserving crop rotation	$104,163
73	Forest Bundle#1	$102,994
74	Stockpiling cool season forage to improve structure and composition.	$95,077
75	Conservation Crop Rotation	$93,169
76	Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture: irrigation water	$92,244
77	Non-Irrigated Cropland (MRBI)	$90,714
78	Conservation cover to provide food habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects	$88,565
79	Increase on-site carbon storage	$87,578
80	Nutrient Management	$80,134
81	Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife food sources	$79,489
82	Create patch openings to enhance wildlife food sources and availability	$78,713
83	Non-Irrigated Precision Ag (MRBI)	$78,140
84	Reduced tillage to reduce energy use	$77,295
85	MRBI Bundle#6 - Pastureland	$74,602
86	Herbaceous weed control (plant pest pressures) for desired plant communities/habitats	$72,198
87	Resource conserving crop rotation for soil organic matter improvement	$70,121
88	Creating structural diversity with patch openings	$69,991
89	Crop tree management for mast production	$69,184
90	Forest Stand Improvement	$64,866
91	Increase stream shading for stream temperature reduction	$61,416
92	Reduce forest stand density to improve a degraded plant community	$60,587
93	Reduce forest density and manage understory along roads to improve wildlife food sources	$55,917
94	Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content	$55,357
95	Cover Crop	$55,326
96	Reduced tillage to reduce tillage induced particulate matter	$52,359
97	Cover crop to reduce soil erosion	$50,243
98	Enhance development of the forest understory to capture nutrients in surface water	$50,087
99	Prescribed grazing that maintains/improves riparian/watershed function-min sediment in surface water	$45,138
100	Extend retention of rainfall to provide food for late winter habitat	$44,776
101	Residue and Tillage Management- No Till	$44,704
102	Close structures to capture and retain rainfall for birds to improve habitat continuity	$44,630
103	Reduction of attractants to human-subsidized predators in sensitive wildlife species habitat	$42,082
104	Maintaining quantity and quality of forage for animal health and productivity	$41,877
105	Stockpiling cool season forage to improve structure and composition or plant productivity and health	$41,589
106	Crop Bundle #18 - Precision Ag	$41,018
107	Automated Intermittent flood irrigation of rice fields- Year 2-5	$39,411
108	Forage plantings that enhance bird habitat cover and shelter or structure and composition	$39,336
109	Forage plantings that can help increase organic matter in depleted soils	$39,285
110	Native grass or legumes in forage base to provide wildlife food	$36,715
111	Crop Bundle#2 - Precision Ag- Reduced till	$36,410
112	Establishing tree/shrub species to restore native plant communities	$35,087
113	Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients	$34,443
114	Enhanced field borders to reduce water induced erosion along the edge(s) of a field	$31,882
115	Reduce forest density and manage understory along roads to limit wildfire risk and improve habitat	$31,156
116	Close structures to capture and retain rainfall to improve cover and shelter for birds during winter	$30,613
117	Enhance development of the forest understory to create conditions resistant to pests	$30,582
118	Conservation cover to provide habitat continuity for pollinators and beneficial insects	$29,164
119	Herbaceous weed control (inadequate structure and comp) for desired plant communities/habitats	$28,583
120	Increase riparian forest buffer width for nutrient reduction	$25,815
121	Pasture and Hay Planting	$25,628
122	Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles	$25,257
123	Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter	$24,709
124	No till system to increase soil health and soil organic matter content	$24,292
125	Increase stream shading for stream temperature reduction	$23,380
126	Modify field operations to reduce particulate matter	$23,298
127	Creating structural diversity with patch openings	$22,896
128	Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife cover and shelter	$22,580
129	Prescribed grazing that improves or maintains riparian and watershed function-erosion	$22,206
130	Upland Wildlife Habitat Management	$21,890
131	Native grasses or legumes in forage base	$21,886
132	Prescribed Burning	$20,563
133	Cover crop to minimize soil compaction	$19,913
134	Conservation Cover	$18,983
135	Conservation cover for pollinators and beneficial insects	$16,912
136	Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture	$16,279
137	Forage and biomass planting to reduce soil erosion or increase organic matter to build soil health	$16,034
138	Pasture Bundle#2	$15,406
139	Native grasses or legumes in forage base	$15,270
140	Maintaining quantity and quality of forage for animal health and productivity	$15,146
141	Cropland conversion to trees or shrubs for long term improvement of water quality	$14,503
142	Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients-surface water	$13,106
143	Advanced Automated IWM - Year 2-5- Soil moisture is monitored- recorded and used in decision making	$12,733
144	Firebreak	$12,725
145	Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content	$12,429
146	Precision Land Forming and Smoothing	$12,005
147	Soil health crop rotation	$11,477
148	Forage harvest management that helps maintain wildlife habitat cover- shelter or continuity	$11,080
149	Close structures to capture and retain rainfall for waterfowl and wading bird winter habitat	$10,962
150	Reduce forest density and manage understory along roads to limit wildfire risk	$10,241
151	Harvest of crops (hay or small grains) using measures that allow desired species to flush or escape	$10,064
152	Grazing management that protects sensitive areas from gully erosion	$9,918
153	Improved grazing management for soil compaction on pasture through monitoring activities	$9,901
154	Grade Stabilization Structure	$9,816
155	Close structures to capture and retain rainfall to provide water for birds during winter	$9,558
156	Forage plantings that help increase organic matter in depleted soils	$9,497
157	Prescribed grazing on pastureland that improves riparian and watershed function	$9,476
158	Enhanced field border to provide wildlife cover or shelter along the edge(s) of a field	$9,428
159	Improved grazing management on pasture for plant productivity and health with monitoring activities	$7,674
160	Tree/Shrub Site Preparation	$7,487
161	Planting for high carbon sequestration rate	$7,014
162	Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife	$6,469
163	Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients-ground water	$6,154
164	No till to reduce water erosion	$5,991
165	Conservation cover to provide cover and shelter habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects	$5,969
166	Stream corridor bank stability improvement	$4,857
167	Reduced tillage to reduce tillage induced particulate matter	$4,774
168	Irrigation Water Management	$4,104
169	Forage harvest management that helps maintain wildlife habitat continuity (space)	$4,021
170	Create patch openings to enhance wildlife cover and shelter	$3,747
171	Reduced tillage to reduce energy use	$3,351
172	Prescribed grazing that maintains/improves riparian/watershed function impairment from nutrients	$2,997
173	Forage harvest management that helps maintain or improve wildlife habitat (cover and shelter)	$2,995
174	Brush Management	$2,951
175	Improved resource conserving crop rotation	$2,482
176	Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content	$2,402
177	Riparian Herbaceous Cover	$2,338
178	Critical Area Planting	$2,282
179	No till to increase plant-available moisture: moisture management	$2,228
180	Establishing native grass or legumes in forage base to improve the plant community	$2,222
181	Improved grazing management for soil compaction through monitoring activities	$2,208
182	Adding food-producing trees and shrubs to existing plantings	$2,083
183	Adding food-producing trees and shrubs to existing plantings	$1,685
184	Crop Bundle #20 - Soil Health Assessment	$1,659
185	Manage existing shrub thickets to provide adequate shelter for wildlife	$1,606
186	Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter	$1,547
187	Improved resource conserving crop rotation to relieve plant pest pressure	$1,516
188	Mulching	$1,349
189	Use of body condition scoring for livestock on a monthly basis to keep track of herd health	$1,249
190	Tree/Shrub Establishment	$1,186
191	Use of soil health assessment to assist with development of cover crop mix to improve soil health	$1,181
192	Forage and biomass planting for water erosion to improve soil health	$1,114
193	Filter Strip	$1,035
194	Brush management that maintains or enhances wildlife or fish habitat	$837
195	Harvest of crops (hay or small grains) using measures that allow desired species to flush or escape	$810
196	Grazing management for improving quantity and quality of cover and shelter for wildlife	$642
197	Brush management to improve wildlife habitat	$605
198	Field Border	$503
199	Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter	$456
200	Forage Harvest Management	$426
201	Grazing management for improving quantity and quality of food for wildlife	$423
202	Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect food habitat	$294
203	Grazing management that protects sensitive areas from gully erosion	$276
204	Riparian Forest Buffer	$262
205	Establish Monarch butterfly habitat in pastures	$205
206	Grazing Bundle 5 - Range and Pasture	$196
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	Total Payments, 2017-2022	333,113,513

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

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

Rank	Practice	Payments, 2017-2022
1	Summer roosting habitat for native forest-dwelling bat species	$1,411,109
2	Reduce risks of nutrient loss to surface water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies	$816,866
3	Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses	$759,578
4	Clipping mature forages to set back vegetative growth for improved forage quality	$473,744
5	Reduced tillage to reduce soil erosion	$315,590
6	Establish Monarch butterfly habitat	$308,429
7	Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter	$287,902
8	Forest management to enhance understory vegetation	$237,980
9	Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses on pasture	$237,224
10	Maintaining and improving forest soil quality	$236,188
11	Herbaceous weed treatment to create plant communities consistent with the ecological site	$205,281
12	Residue and Tillage Management- Reduced Till	$160,593
13	Prescribed Grazing	$140,159
14	Herbaceous Weed Treatment	$122,317
15	Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food	$121,891
16	Resource conserving crop rotation	$104,163
17	Conservation Crop Rotation	$93,169
18	Increase on-site carbon storage	$87,578
19	Nutrient Management	$80,134
20	Crop tree management for mast production	$69,184
21	Forest Stand Improvement	$64,866
22	Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content	$55,357
23	Cover Crop	$55,326
24	Cover crop to reduce soil erosion	$50,243
25	Residue and Tillage Management- No Till	$44,704
26	Stockpiling cool season forage to improve structure and composition or plant productivity and health	$41,589
27	Establishing tree/shrub species to restore native plant communities	$35,087
28	Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients	$34,443
29	Pasture and Hay Planting	$25,628
30	Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles	$25,257
31	Increase stream shading for stream temperature reduction	$23,380
32	Creating structural diversity with patch openings	$22,896
33	Prescribed Burning	$20,563
34	Cover crop to minimize soil compaction	$19,913
35	Conservation Cover	$18,983
36	Conservation cover for pollinators and beneficial insects	$16,912
37	Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture	$16,279
38	Forage and biomass planting to reduce soil erosion or increase organic matter to build soil health	$16,034
39	Maintaining quantity and quality of forage for animal health and productivity	$15,146
40	Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content	$12,429
41	Forage plantings that help increase organic matter in depleted soils	$9,497
42	Prescribed grazing on pastureland that improves riparian and watershed function	$9,476
43	Improved grazing management on pasture for plant productivity and health with monitoring activities	$7,674
44	Planting for high carbon sequestration rate	$7,014
45	Reduced tillage to reduce tillage induced particulate matter	$4,774
46	Irrigation Water Management	$4,104
47	Reduced tillage to reduce energy use	$3,351
48	Brush Management	$2,951
49	Improved resource conserving crop rotation	$2,482
50	Riparian Herbaceous Cover	$2,338
51	Critical Area Planting	$2,282
52	Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter	$1,547
53	Mulching	$1,349
54	Tree/Shrub Establishment	$1,186
55	Filter Strip	$1,035
56	Brush management to improve wildlife habitat	$605
57	Field Border	$503
58	Grazing management that protects sensitive areas from gully erosion	$276
59	Riparian Forest Buffer	$262
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	Total Climate Smart CSP payments, 2017-2022	$6,946,820
	Climate Smart CSP payments, 2017-2022	$4,461,198
	Provisional Climate Smart CSP payments, 2017-2022	$2,485,622

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

CSP payments by county, 2017-2022

Rank	State	CSP Payments, 2017-2022
1	Yazoo County, Mississippi	$24,174,029
2	Panola County, Mississippi	$16,737,422
3	Quitman County, Mississippi	$16,654,013
4	Calhoun County, Mississippi	$12,126,891
5	Tallahatchie County, Mississippi	$11,757,620
6	Holmes County, Mississippi	$11,058,478
7	Leflore County, Mississippi	$10,027,733
8	Chickasaw County, Mississippi	$9,542,295
9	Sharkey County, Mississippi	$8,179,963
10	Madison County, Mississippi	$8,076,340
11	Carroll County, Mississippi	$7,108,269
12	Humphreys County, Mississippi	$6,092,853
13	Coahoma County, Mississippi	$6,027,303
14	Warren County, Mississippi	$5,830,512
15	Noxubee County, Mississippi	$5,826,479
16	Hinds County, Mississippi	$5,627,676
17	Pontotoc County, Mississippi	$5,311,433
18	Attala County, Mississippi	$5,164,407
19	Bolivar County, Mississippi	$5,086,225
20	Monroe County, Mississippi	$4,824,048
21	Sunflower County, Mississippi	$4,514,186
22	Clay County, Mississippi	$4,373,850
23	Issaquena County, Mississippi	$3,678,815
24	Webster County, Mississippi	$3,639,748
25	Prentiss County, Mississippi	$3,495,770
26	Tate County, Mississippi	$3,425,673
27	Washington County, Mississippi	$3,410,452
28	Grenada County, Mississippi	$3,208,548
29	Union County, Mississippi	$3,078,705
30	Marshall County, Mississippi	$3,016,827
31	Montgomery County, Mississippi	$2,554,380
32	Oktibbeha County, Mississippi	$2,532,586
33	Claiborne County, Mississippi	$2,271,017
34	Yalobusha County, Mississippi	$2,269,036
35	Rankin County, Mississippi	$2,173,757
36	Tunica County, Mississippi	$2,133,633
37	Lowndes County, Mississippi	$2,108,851
38	Tippah County, Mississippi	$2,058,178
39	Lafayette County, Mississippi	$1,930,993
40	Itawamba County, Mississippi	$1,886,971
41	Copiah County, Mississippi	$1,771,074
42	DeSoto County, Mississippi	$1,750,477
43	Alcorn County, Mississippi	$1,521,747
44	Choctaw County, Mississippi	$1,336,654
45	Walthall County, Mississippi	$1,331,143
46	Scott County, Mississippi	$1,276,199
47	Benton County, Mississippi	$1,224,016
48	Leake County, Mississippi	$1,053,243
49	Amite County, Mississippi	$1,010,946
50	Wilkinson County, Mississippi	$980,752
51	Lee County, Mississippi	$893,977
52	Newton County, Mississippi	$892,545
53	Adams County, Mississippi	$874,598
54	Kemper County, Mississippi	$855,965
55	Tishomingo County, Mississippi	$794,626
56	Pearl River County, Mississippi	$744,591
57	Winston County, Mississippi	$735,739
58	Jefferson County, Mississippi	$732,759
59	Marion County, Mississippi	$703,575
60	Simpson County, Mississippi	$589,012
61	Neshoba County, Mississippi	$570,261
62	Jones County, Mississippi	$395,766
63	Franklin County, Mississippi	$367,014
64	Covington County, Mississippi	$355,002
65	Lincoln County, Mississippi	$350,976
66	Lawrence County, Mississippi	$309,095
67	Smith County, Mississippi	$282,141
68	Jasper County, Mississippi	$267,907
69	Pike County, Mississippi	$267,460
70	Lauderdale County, Mississippi	$249,629
71	Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi	$144,523
72	Lamar County, Mississippi	$137,748
73	Clarke County, Mississippi	$121,464
74	Perry County, Mississippi	$120,280
75	Stone County, Mississippi	$91,971
76	Wayne County, Mississippi	$78,366
77	Forrest County, Mississippi	$56,034
78	George County, Mississippi	$26,802
79	Greene County, Mississippi	$19,693
80	Hancock County, Mississippi	$9,097
81	Jackson County, Mississippi	$0
82	Harrison County, Mississippi	$0
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USDA Census of Agriculture Data for Mississippi, 2022

Land in Mississippi, 2022

Land type	Acres
Number of Farms:	31,290
Total Acres in Farms:	10,251,497
Cropland Acres:	5,135,334
Permanent pasture and rangeland:	1,442,781
Woodland Acres:	3,040,282

Livestock in Mississippi, 2022

Livestock	Number of Animals
Broilers and other meat-type chickens sold	668,652,465
Layers inventory	4,673,149
Cattle and calves inventory	832,542
Hogs and pigs inventory	177,541
Sheep and lambs inventory	18,884

Crops in Mississippi, 2022

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