| 1 | Cropland Annual Payment | $19,512,291 |
| 2 | Pasture Annual Payment | $3,835,802 |
| 3 | Non-Industrial Private Forest Land Annual Payment | $1,525,552 |
| 4 | Associated Ag Land | $555,496 |
| 5 | Pastured Cropland Annual Payment | $420,956 |
| 6 | Farmstead | $413,384 |
| 7 | Existing Activity Payment-Resource Concern | $384,918 |
| 8 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing precision pesticide application techniques | $380,219 |
| 9 | Existing Activity Payment-Land Use | $367,573 |
| 10 | Minimum Payment Adjustment | $335,182 |
| 11 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base | $310,061 |
| 12 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to surface water | $259,869 |
| 13 | Forest Stand Improvement to rehabilitate degraded hardwood stands | $251,200 |
| 14 | Reduce risks of nutrient losses to surface water by utilizing precision ag technologies | $135,488 |
| 15 | No till system to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $103,193 |
| 16 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques | $84,423 |
| 17 | Establish Monarch butterfly habitat | $75,807 |
| 18 | Crop Bundle#5 - Soil Health Assessment- No till | $71,223 |
| 19 | Cultural plantings | $62,150 |
| 20 | Use of SHA to assist with development of cover crop mix to improve soil health and increase SOM | $62,099 |
| 21 | Soil health crop rotation | $51,192 |
| 22 | MRBI Bundle#3 - Non-Irrigated Cropland #2 | $45,606 |
| 23 | Crop tree management for mast production | $44,134 |
| 24 | Enhance development of the forest understory to provide wildlife cover and shelter | $42,454 |
| 25 | Reduce forest stand density to improve a degraded plant community | $40,058 |
| 26 | Reduce height of the forest understory to limit wildfire risk | $35,461 |
| 27 | Establishing tree/shrub species to restore native plant communities | $32,078 |
| 28 | Stockpiling cool season forage to improve plant productivity and health | $30,032 |
| 29 | Crop Bundle#1 - Precision Ag- No till | $29,437 |
| 30 | Advanced Automated IWM - Year 1 - Equipment and soil moisture is monitored- recorded and used in dec | $27,797 |
| 31 | Pest Management Conservation System | $26,570 |
| 32 | Summer roosting habitat for native forest-dwelling bat species | $26,326 |
| 33 | Cover Crop  | $22,085 |
| 34 | Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles | $21,409 |
| 35 | Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients-surface water | $21,301 |
| 36 | Snags- den trees- and coarse woody debris for wildlife habitat | $21,030 |
| 37 | Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $20,875 |
| 38 | Cover crop to reduce water erosion | $20,347 |
| 39 | Enhance development of the forest understory to capture nutrients in surface water | $19,127 |
| 40 | Manage livestock access to streams/ditches/other waterbodies to reduce nutrients in surface water | $19,104 |
| 41 | Herbaceous weed control (plant pest pressures) for desired plant communities/habitats | $18,802 |
| 42 | Improved grazing mgmt for plant productivity/health through monitoring | $16,674 |
| 43 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base to improve plant community structure and composition | $15,383 |
| 44 | Enhance development of the forest understory to create conditions resistant to pests | $14,374 |
| 45 | Conservation cover to provide food habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects | $11,638 |
| 46 | Enhance development of the forest understory to capture nutrients -ground water | $10,817 |
| 47 | Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $10,376 |
| 48 | Maintaining and improving forest soil quality by limiting compaction | $10,171 |
| 49 | Conservation cover to provide cover and shelter habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects | $8,760 |
| 50 | Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $8,390 |
| 51 | Herbaceous weed control for desired plant communities/habitats consistent with the ecological site | $7,746 |
| 52 | Conservation cover to provide habitat continuity for pollinators and beneficial insects | $7,713 |
| 53 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food | $7,248 |
| 54 | Forage and biomass planting for water erosion to improve soil health | $6,768 |
| 55 | Nutrient Management | $6,667 |
| 56 | Maintaining quantity and quality of forage for animal health and productivity | $6,391 |
| 57 | Prescribed Grazing | $5,423 |
| 58 | Prescribed grazing that maintains/improves riparian/watershed function impairment from nutrients | $4,844 |
| 59 | Grazing management that protects sensitive areas from gully erosion | $4,836 |
| 60 | Reduce ozone precursor emissions related to pesticides by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques | $4,818 |
| 61 | Herbaceous Weed Treatment | $4,780 |
| 62 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base to improve plant productivity and health | $4,748 |
| 63 | Resource conserving crop rotation to reduce water erosion | $4,694 |
| 64 | No till to reduce water erosion | $4,626 |
| 65 | Create patch openings to enhance wildlife cover and shelter | $4,259 |
| 66 | Reduce forest stand density to improve wildlife food sources | $4,094 |
| 67 | Pasture and Hay Planting | $3,926 |
| 68 | Forage harvest management that helps maintain wildlife habitat continuity (space) | $3,716 |
| 69 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risks to air quality - emissions of GHGs | $3,295 |
| 70 | Forage harvest management that helps maintain or improve wildlife habitat (cover and shelter) | $3,086 |
| 71 | Forest Stand Improvement | $2,956 |
| 72 | Cover crop to minimize soil compaction | $2,818 |
| 73 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation for soil organic matter improvement | $2,735 |
| 74 | Native grass or legumes in forage base to provide wildlife food | $2,651 |
| 75 | Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients-ground water | $2,624 |
| 76 | Adding food-producing trees and shrubs to existing plantings | $2,375 |
| 77 | Harvest of crops (hay or small grains) using measures that allow desired species to flush or escape | $2,054 |
| 78 | Brush Management | $2,027 |
| 79 | Prescribed grazing that improves or maintains riparian and watershed function-erosion | $1,859 |
| 80 | Short-interval burns to promote a healthy herbaceous plant community for wildlife food | $1,791 |
| 81 | Stockpiling cool season forage to improve structure and composition. | $1,562 |
| 82 | Complete pumping plant evaluation for all pumps on a farm. | $1,547 |
| 83 | Close structures to capture and retain rainfall to improve cover and shelter for birds during winter | $1,448 |
| 84 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife cover and shelter | $1,438 |
| 85 | Reduce forest density and manage understory along roads to improve wildlife food sources | $1,367 |
| 86 | Roof Runoff Structure | $1,300 |
| 87 | No till to increase plant-available moisture: irrigation water | $1,288 |
| 88 | Herbaceous weed treatment to create plant communities consistent with the ecological site | $1,248 |
| 89 | Forage and biomass planting that produces feedstock for biofuels or energy production | $1,196 |
| 90 | Brush management for improved structure and composition | $1,171 |
| 91 | Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles | $1,103 |
| 92 | Forage plantings that can help increase organic matter in depleted soils | $1,095 |
| 93 | Grazing management for improving quantity and quality of cover and shelter for wildlife | $1,082 |
| 94 | Conservation Cover | $1,014 |
| 95 | Improved grazing management for soil compaction through monitoring activities | $884 |
| 96 | Early Successional Habitat Development-Mgt | $862 |
| 97 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife food sources | $806 |
| 98 | Create patch openings to enhance wildlife food sources and availability | $728 |
| 99 | Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect food habitat | $721 |
| 100 | Fishpond management for native aquatic and terrestrial species | $695 |
| 101 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife cover | $607 |
| 102 | Mulching | $600 |
| 103 | Planting for high carbon sequestration rate | $563 |
| 104 | Increase diversity in pine plantation monocultures | $534 |
| 105 | Creating structural diversity with patch openings | $485 |
| 106 | Enhanced field borders to increase carbon storage along the edge(s) of the field | $467 |
| 107 | Grassed Waterway | $392 |
| 108 | Irrigation Water Management | $388 |
| 109 | Enhanced field border to provide wildlife food for pollinators along the edge(s) of a field | $328 |
| 110 | Manage livestock access to streams/ditches/other waterbodies to reduce pathogens in surface water | $327 |
| 111 | Critical Area Planting | $303 |
| 112 | Conservation Crop Rotation | $291 |
| 113 | Enhanced field borders to reduce water induced erosion along the edge(s) of a field | $263 |
| 114 | Reduced tillage to reduce water erosion | $260 |
| 115 | Prescribed grazing that maintains/improves riparian/watershed function-min sediment in surface water | $227 |
| 116 | Field Border | $206 |
| 117 | Enhanced field border to provide wildlife habitat continuity along the edge(s) of a field | $197 |
| 118 | Firebreak | $189 |
| 119 | Increase riparian forest buffer width for nutrient reduction | $155 |
| 120 | Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect habitat continuity (space) | $148 |
| 121 | Silvopasture for wildlife habitat (cover and shelter) | $143 |
| 122 | Road/Trail/Landing Closure and Treatment | $106 |
| 123 | Tree/Shrub Establishment | $83 |
| 124 | Increase riparian herbaceous cover width to reduce sediment loading | $52 |
| 125 | Residue and Tillage Management- No Till | $49 |
| 126 | Riparian Forest Buffer | $37 |
| 127 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation to reduce water erosion | $29 |
| 128 | Prescribed Burning | $29 |
| 129 | Cropland conversion to grass-based agriculture for soil organic matter improvement | $27 |
| 130 | Tree/Shrub Site Preparation | $27 |
| 131 | Access Control | $0 |
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| | Total Payments, 2017-2020 | 30,026,326 |
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