| 1 | Cropland Annual Payment | $15,815,037 |
| 2 | Non-Industrial Private Forest Land Annual Payment | $4,016,224 |
| 3 | Pasture Annual Payment | $1,848,467 |
| 4 | Maintaining and improving forest soil quality | $675,801 |
| 5 | Existing Activity Payment-Land Use | $505,368 |
| 6 | Minimum Payment Adjustment | $468,105 |
| 7 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing precision pesticide application techniques | $451,508 |
| 8 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to surface water | $361,786 |
| 9 | Maintaining and improving forest soil quality by limiting compaction | $338,018 |
| 10 | Sequential patch burning | $295,511 |
| 11 | Existing Activity Payment-Resource Concern | $237,000 |
| 12 | Enhance development of the forest understory to capture nutrients in surface water | $228,392 |
| 13 | Reduce forest stand density to improve wildlife food sources | $174,942 |
| 14 | Planting for high carbon sequestration rate | $95,563 |
| 15 | Reduce height of the forest understory to limit wildfire risk | $79,778 |
| 16 | Snags- den trees- and coarse woody debris for wildlife habitat | $74,930 |
| 17 | Reduce risks of nutrient losses to surface water by utilizing precision ag technologies | $63,066 |
| 18 | Increase riparian forest buffer width to enhance wildlife habitat | $58,318 |
| 19 | Pastured Cropland Annual Payment | $53,270 |
| 20 | Short-interval burn | $52,962 |
| 21 | Cover crop to minimize soil compaction | $44,298 |
| 22 | Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $43,950 |
| 23 | Conservation cover to provide food habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects | $39,322 |
| 24 | Fishpond management for native aquatic and terrestrial species | $36,534 |
| 25 | Herbaceous weed control (plant pest pressures) for desired plant communities/habitats | $34,358 |
| 26 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques | $28,300 |
| 27 | Cover Crop  | $27,684 |
| 28 | Reduce forest stand density to improve a degraded plant community | $24,818 |
| 29 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food | $19,425 |
| 30 | Enhance development of the forest understory to provide wildlife cover and shelter | $17,894 |
| 31 | Pest Management Conservation System | $17,095 |
| 32 | Increase on-site carbon storage | $14,790 |
| 33 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife cover | $14,208 |
| 34 | Increase riparian herbaceous cover width to reduce sediment loading | $14,102 |
| 35 | Brush Management | $13,911 |
| 36 | Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $13,213 |
| 37 | Supplemental Payment | $12,540 |
| 38 | Associated Ag Land | $11,657 |
| 39 | Herbaceous weed control for desired plant communities/habitats consistent with the ecological site | $11,251 |
| 40 | Create patch openings to enhance wildlife cover and shelter | $10,789 |
| 41 | Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles | $9,668 |
| 42 | No till system to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $9,524 |
| 43 | Herbaceous Weed Treatment | $9,440 |
| 44 | Conservation cover to provide cover and shelter habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects | $9,356 |
| 45 | Forage and biomass planting for water erosion to improve soil health | $9,226 |
| 46 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base | $9,214 |
| 47 | Harvest of crops (hay or small grains) using measures that allow desired species to flush or escape | $8,912 |
| 48 | Short-interval prescribed burning to promote a healthy herbaceous plant community | $8,560 |
| 49 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to groundwater | $8,016 |
| 50 | Conservation cover to provide habitat continuity for pollinators and beneficial insects | $7,950 |
| 51 | Create patch openings to enhance wildlife food sources and availability | $7,358 |
| 52 | Establish Monarch butterfly habitat | $6,586 |
| 53 | Enhanced field border to provide wildlife habitat continuity along the edge(s) of a field | $5,908 |
| 54 | Forage harvest management that helps maintain or improve wildlife habitat (cover and shelter) | $5,705 |
| 55 | Forage plantings that enhance bird habitat (structure and composition) | $5,291 |
| 56 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base to improve plant productivity and health | $4,883 |
| 57 | Forage plantings that can help increase organic matter in depleted soils | $4,857 |
| 58 | Other Payment | $4,785 |
| 59 | Pasture and Hay Planting | $4,472 |
| 60 | Resource conserving crop rotation to reduce water erosion | $4,368 |
| 61 | Enhanced field border to provide wildlife food for pollinators along the edge(s) of a field | $4,256 |
| 62 | Conservation Cover | $4,005 |
| 63 | Enhanced field border to provide wildlife cover or shelter along the edge(s) of a field | $3,433 |
| 64 | Tree/Shrub Establishment | $3,239 |
| 65 | Stockpiling cool season forage to improve plant productivity and health | $2,895 |
| 66 | Prescribed Grazing | $2,741 |
| 67 | Improved grazing mgmt for plant productivity/health through monitoring | $2,161 |
| 68 | Prescribed Burning | $2,042 |
| 69 | Farmstead | $1,776 |
| 70 | Forest Stand Improvement | $1,730 |
| 71 | Herbaceous weed control (inadequate structure and comp) for desired plant communities/habitats | $1,321 |
| 72 | Brush management for improved structure and composition | $1,283 |
| 73 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife food sources | $1,277 |
| 74 | Soil health crop rotation | $1,250 |
| 75 | Cover crop to reduce water erosion | $1,179 |
| 76 | Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients-surface water | $1,072 |
| 77 | Firebreak | $1,025 |
| 78 | Tree/Shrub Site Preparation | $1,003 |
| 79 | Nutrient Management | $921 |
| 80 | Residue and Tillage Management- Reduced Till | $859 |
| 81 | Increase diversity in pine plantation monocultures | $692 |
| 82 | Forest Trails and Landings | $689 |
| 83 | Enhanced field borders to increase carbon storage along the edge(s) of the field | $607 |
| 84 | Reduce ozone precursor emissions related to pesticides by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques | $519 |
| 85 | Residue and Tillage Management- No Till | $503 |
| 86 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base to improve plant community structure and composition | $475 |
| 87 | Conservation Crop Rotation | $436 |
| 88 | Structures for Wildlife | $217 |
| 89 | Prescribed grazing that maintains/improves riparian/watershed function impairment from nutrients | $174 |
| 90 | Implementing sustainable practices for pine straw raking | $152 |
| 91 | Early Successional Habitat Development-Mgt | $122 |
| 92 | Advanced IWM--Soil moisture is monitored- recorded- and used in decision making | $98 |
| 93 | Grazing management for improving quantity and quality of cover and shelter for wildlife | $94 |
| 94 | Field Border | $73 |
| 95 | Forage harvest management that helps maintain wildlife habitat continuity (space) | $60 |
| 96 | Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect food habitat | $58 |
| 97 | Watering Facility | $36 |
| 98 | Critical Area Planting | $35 |
| 99 | Grazing management that protects sensitive areas from gully erosion | $23 |
| 100 | Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect habitat continuity (space) | $18 |
| 101 | Intensive cover cropping (orchard/vineyard floor) to increase soil health and SOM content | $5 |
| 102 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife cover and shelter | $2 |
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| | Total Payments, 2017-2020 | 26,532,817 |
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