Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) in the United States
CSP payments by fiscal year in the United States
CSP payments by state, 2017-2022
Practices and enhancements on CSP acres, 2017-2022, the United States
Rank | Practice | Payments, 2017-2022 |
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1 | Cropland Annual Payment | $2,905,293,856 |
2 | Rangeland Annual Payment | $466,604,997 |
3 | Pasture Annual Payment | $241,054,338 |
4 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing precision pesticide application techniques | $112,332,044 |
5 | Non-Industrial Private Forest Land Annual Payment | $108,700,616 |
6 | Reduce risks of nutrient losses to surface water by utilizing precision ag technologies | $85,361,873 |
7 | Existing Activity Payment-Land Use | $78,827,896 |
8 | Farmstead | $48,340,994 |
9 | Pastured Cropland Annual Payment | $46,302,289 |
10 | Existing Activity Payment-Resource Concern | $44,141,913 |
11 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to surface water | $41,214,736 |
12 | Associated Ag Land | $40,921,068 |
13 | Establish Monarch butterfly habitat | $31,177,518 |
14 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques | $29,676,241 |
15 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risks to air quality - emissions of GHGs | $17,356,086 |
16 | Maintaining quantity and quality of forage for animal health and productivity | $16,239,776 |
17 | Reduce ozone precursor emissions related to pesticides by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques | $15,311,269 |
18 | Pest Management Conservation System | $14,204,764 |
19 | Minimum Payment Adjustment | $11,570,387 |
20 | Establish Monarch butterfly habitat | $10,670,604 |
21 | Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $10,662,109 |
22 | Cover Crop | $10,657,715 |
23 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses to groundwater | $10,055,877 |
24 | Supplemental Payment | $9,497,193 |
25 | Summer roosting habitat for native forest-dwelling bat species | $8,558,105 |
26 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses | $8,398,192 |
27 | Close structures to capture/retain rainfall to improve food for waterfowl/wading birds during winter | $8,311,641 |
28 | Planting for high carbon sequestration rate | $7,440,638 |
29 | Snags- den trees- and coarse woody debris for wildlife habitat | $7,320,622 |
30 | Sequential patch burning | $7,236,755 |
31 | Reduce risks of nutrient loss to surface water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies | $6,888,107 |
32 | Prescribed grazing that improves or maintains riparian and watershed function-erosion | $6,661,849 |
33 | Reduce risk of pesticides in surface water by utilizing precision pesticide application techniques | $6,534,421 |
34 | Reduce risk of pesticides in water and air by utilizing IPM PAMS techniques | $5,267,199 |
35 | Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles | $4,715,720 |
36 | Advanced IWM--Soil moisture is monitored- recorded- and used in decision making | $4,688,681 |
37 | Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $4,637,395 |
38 | Nutrient Management | $4,586,307 |
39 | Prescribed Grazing | $4,540,686 |
40 | Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $4,477,047 |
41 | Cover crop to minimize soil compaction | $4,429,136 |
42 | Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $4,403,888 |
43 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife food sources | $3,923,912 |
44 | Maintaining and improving forest soil quality by limiting compaction | $3,891,168 |
45 | Forest Stand Improvement to rehabilitate degraded hardwood stands | $3,789,370 |
46 | Reduced tillage to reduce water erosion | $3,785,968 |
47 | Advanced IWM--Weather is monitored- recorded and used in decision making | $3,768,216 |
48 | Controlled traffic farming to reduce compaction | $3,695,908 |
49 | Increase stream shading for stream temperature reduction | $3,674,961 |
50 | Harvest of crops (hay or small grains) using measures that allow desired species to flush or escape | $3,637,885 |
51 | Improved grazing management for plant productivity/health through monitoring | $3,612,555 |
52 | Short-interval burn | $3,492,759 |
53 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife cover | $3,485,904 |
54 | Close structures to capture and retain rainfall to improve cover and shelter for birds during winter | $3,283,517 |
55 | Cover crop to reduce water erosion | $3,071,365 |
56 | Herbaceous weed control (plant pest pressures) for desired plant communities/habitats | $3,046,384 |
57 | Advanced Automated IWM - Year 1 - Equipment and soil moisture is monitored- recorded and used in dec | $2,951,392 |
58 | Incorporating wildlife refuge areas in contingency plans for wildlife. | $2,834,869 |
59 | Increase riparian forest buffer width to enhance wildlife habitat | $2,825,955 |
60 | Reduce forest stand density to improve a degraded plant community | $2,744,963 |
61 | Grazing management for improving quantity/quality of plant structure/composition for wildlife | $2,625,576 |
62 | Maintaining and improving forest soil quality | $2,528,304 |
63 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food | $2,528,263 |
64 | Reduce risks of nutrient losses to ground water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies to p | $2,510,184 |
65 | Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients-surface water | $2,492,073 |
66 | Resource conserving crop rotation for soil organic matter improvement | $2,488,683 |
67 | Use of body condition scoring for livestock on a monthly basis to keep track of herd health | $2,378,160 |
68 | Advanced Automated IWM - Year 1- Equipment and soil moisture or water level monitoring | $2,378,084 |
69 | Intermittent flooding of rice fields | $2,333,779 |
70 | Resource conserving crop rotation to reduce water erosion | $2,318,638 |
71 | Herbaceous weed control for desired plant communities/habitats consistent with the ecological site | $2,289,177 |
72 | No till system to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $1,945,265 |
73 | Planting for high carbon sequestration rate | $1,912,199 |
74 | Manipulate vegetation on fields where rainfall is to be captured and retained-food | $1,863,841 |
75 | Herbaceous Weed Treatment | $1,832,567 |
76 | Crop tree management for mast production | $1,787,922 |
77 | Prescribed grazing that maintains/improves riparian/watershed function-pathogens/chemicals | $1,774,362 |
78 | Increase stream shading for stream temperature reduction | $1,752,274 |
79 | Residue and Tillage Management- Reduced Till | $1,750,216 |
80 | Improved grazing management for soil compaction on rangeland through monitoring activities | $1,749,390 |
81 | Stream habitat improvement through placement of woody biomass | $1,687,806 |
82 | Advanced Automated IWM - Year 2-5- Soil moisture is monitored- recorded and used in decision making | $1,615,798 |
83 | Herbaceous weed treatment to create plant communities consistent with the ecological site | $1,589,258 |
84 | Crop Bundle#6 - Soil Health Assessment- Reduced till | $1,541,647 |
85 | Use of SHA to assist with development of cover crop mix to improve soil health and increase SOM | $1,535,800 |
86 | MRBI Bundle#1 - Irrigated Cropland | $1,518,875 |
87 | Reduce height of the forest understory to limit wildfire risk | $1,473,203 |
88 | Summer roosting habitat for native forest-dwelling bat species | $1,457,825 |
89 | Clipping mature forages to set back vegetative growth for improved forage quality | $1,447,660 |
90 | Incorporating wildlife refuge areas in contingency plans for wildlife food | $1,405,437 |
91 | Conservation cover to provide food habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects | $1,375,878 |
92 | Manage livestock access to streams/ditches/other waterbodies to reduce nutrients in surface water | $1,365,571 |
93 | Longleaf Pine Bundle#2 | $1,354,804 |
94 | Reduce forest stand density to improve wildlife food sources | $1,321,853 |
95 | Enhance development of the forest understory to improve site moisture | $1,290,960 |
96 | Residue and Tillage Management- No Till | $1,275,622 |
97 | Forest management to enhance understory vegetation | $1,256,099 |
98 | Conservation Crop Rotation | $1,226,239 |
99 | Improved crop rotation to provide benefits to pollinators | $1,202,609 |
100 | Incorporating wildlife refuge areas in contingency plans for prescribed grazing-cover/shelter | $1,171,465 |
101 | Enhance development of the forest understory to capture nutrients in surface water | $1,159,496 |
102 | Pasture and Hay Planting | $1,138,730 |
103 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base | $1,137,900 |
104 | Maintaining quantity and quality of forage for animal health and productivity | $1,113,013 |
105 | No till to reduce water erosion | $1,112,300 |
106 | Improved grazing mgmt for plant productivity/health through monitoring | $1,058,564 |
107 | Prescribed grazing that maintains/improves riparian/watershed function impairment from nutrients | $1,025,979 |
108 | Snags- den trees- and coarse woody debris for wildlife habitat | $973,768 |
109 | Stockpiling cool season forage to improve plant productivity and health | $968,213 |
110 | Short-interval burns to promote a healthy herbaceous plant community | $962,200 |
111 | Management Intensive Rotational Grazing | $945,286 |
112 | Conservation Cover | $943,529 |
113 | Reduced tillage to reduce soil erosion | $941,415 |
114 | Close structures to capture and retain rainfall for birds to improve habitat continuity | $938,134 |
115 | Improved grazing management for enhanced plant structure and composition for wildlife | $900,878 |
116 | Resource conserving crop rotation | $896,518 |
117 | Maintaining and improving forest soil quality | $891,995 |
118 | Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $878,765 |
119 | Eliminate use of chemical treatments to control pests and to increase the presence of dung beetles | $870,905 |
120 | Improved grazing management for water erosion through monitoring activities | $870,425 |
121 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife cover and shelter | $857,137 |
122 | Manipulate vegetation on fields where rainfall is to be captured and retained-cover/shelter | $850,424 |
123 | Enhanced field borders to reduce water induced erosion along the edge(s) of a field | $826,368 |
124 | Enhance development of the forest understory to provide wildlife cover and shelter | $800,796 |
125 | Improved grazing management for plant structure and composition through monitoring activities | $797,024 |
126 | Enhanced wildlife habitat on expired grass/legume covered CRP acres | $790,851 |
127 | Forage harvest management that helps maintain or improve wildlife habitat (cover and shelter) | $784,159 |
128 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food | $777,570 |
129 | Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $764,377 |
130 | Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture: moisture management | $736,589 |
131 | Crop Bundle#5 - Soil Health Assessment- No till | $718,695 |
132 | Herbaceous weed control (inadequate structure and comp) for desired plant communities/habitats | $691,922 |
133 | Improved grazing management through monitoring activities | $689,387 |
134 | Conservation cover to provide cover and shelter habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects | $679,755 |
135 | Upland Wildlife Habitat Management | $679,506 |
136 | Close structures to capture and retain rainfall to provide water for birds during winter | $672,577 |
137 | Enhance development of the forest understory to create conditions resistant to pests | $671,552 |
138 | Cultural plantings | $662,660 |
139 | Crop Bundle #19 - Soil Health Precision Ag | $640,895 |
140 | Enhancement - Soil Management | $638,214 |
141 | Prescribed grazing that improves or maintains riparian and watershed function-erosion | $635,809 |
142 | Reduced tillage to reduce wind erosion | $635,329 |
143 | Provide early successional habitat between first rice crop and ratoon crop-continuity | $631,111 |
144 | Resource conserving crop rotation to improve soil compaction | $626,206 |
145 | Extend retention of rainfall to provide food for late winter habitat | $625,402 |
146 | Grazing management that protects sensitive areas from gully erosion | $624,201 |
147 | Short-interval burns to promote a healthy herbaceous plant community for wildlife food | $624,059 |
148 | Reduce forest stand density to create open stand structure | $616,666 |
149 | Grazing management that improves Monarch butterfly habitat | $616,653 |
150 | Irrigation Water Management | $613,743 |
151 | Reduced tillage to reduce energy use | $611,487 |
152 | Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $597,189 |
153 | Extend retention of captured rainfall to provide enhanced cover and shelter for late winter habitat | $569,470 |
154 | Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $566,120 |
155 | Cover crop to reduce soil erosion | $562,450 |
156 | Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture: irrigation water | $540,924 |
157 | Brush Management | $538,952 |
158 | Crop Bundle #20 - Soil Health Assessment | $535,340 |
159 | Soil health crop rotation | $525,507 |
160 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base to improve plant community structure and composition | $523,924 |
161 | Resource conserving crop rotation to relieve plant pest pressure | $515,851 |
162 | Enhanced field borders to increase carbon storage along the edge(s) of the field | $506,000 |
163 | Forest Stand Improvement | $492,105 |
164 | Brush management for improved structure and composition | $490,072 |
165 | Creating structural diversity with patch openings | $473,685 |
166 | Establishing tree/shrub species to restore native plant communities | $472,148 |
167 | Close structures to capture and retain rainfall for waterfowl and wading bird winter habitat | $461,823 |
168 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses on pasture | $461,286 |
169 | Reduction of attractants to human-subsidized predators in sensitive wildlife species habitat | $456,663 |
170 | Leave standing grain crops unharvested to benefit wildlife | $454,694 |
171 | Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients | $453,240 |
172 | Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients-ground water | $439,325 |
173 | Tree/Shrub Establishment | $436,320 |
174 | Forest Stand Improvement to rehabilitate degraded hardwood stands | $420,580 |
175 | Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles | $407,304 |
176 | Eliminate use of chemical treatments to control pests and increase dung beetle populations | $391,965 |
177 | Prescribed grazing that maintains/improves riparian/watershed function-min sediment in surface water | $388,150 |
178 | Enhance development of the forest understory to capture nutrients -ground water | $385,734 |
179 | Harvest of crops (hay or small grains) using measures that allow desired species to flush or escape | $382,029 |
180 | Implementing Bale or Swath Grazing to increase organic matter and reduce nutrients in surface water | $380,991 |
181 | Adding food-producing trees and shrubs to existing plantings | $378,103 |
182 | Stockpiling cool season forage to improve structure and composition. | $375,333 |
183 | Modify field operations to reduce particulate matter | $375,067 |
184 | Cover crop to minimize soil compaction | $371,405 |
185 | Switch fuel source for pump motor(s) | $370,319 |
186 | Crop Bundle#4 - Soil health rotation- Reduced till | $367,923 |
187 | Manage livestock access to waterbodies to reduce nutrients or pathogens to surface water | $362,685 |
188 | Establishing tree/shrub species to restore native plant communities | $361,540 |
189 | Provide early successional habitat between first rice crop and ratoon crop-food | $361,218 |
190 | Grazing Bundle 1 - Range and Pasture | $346,851 |
191 | Grazing management that protects sensitive areas-surface water from nutrients | $345,764 |
192 | Improved grazing management for soil compaction through monitoring activities | $345,053 |
193 | Crop Bundle#1 - Precision Ag- No till | $342,683 |
194 | Extend existing filter strip to reduce excess nutrients in surface water | $340,050 |
195 | Incorporating wildlife friendly fencing for connectivity of wildlife food resources | $336,289 |
196 | Cover crop to reduce wind erosion | $334,295 |
197 | MRBI Bundle#2 - Non-Irrigated Cropland #1 | $325,383 |
198 | Conservation cover for pollinators and beneficial insects | $322,859 |
199 | Crop Bundle#2 - Precision Ag- Reduced till | $322,329 |
200 | Controlled traffic farming to reduce compaction | $320,354 |
201 | Range Bundle#2 | $320,241 |
202 | Intermediate IWM - Year 1- Equipment with Soil or Water Level monitoring | $318,396 |
203 | Manage livestock access to streams/ditches/other waterbodies to reduce pathogens in surface water | $317,131 |
204 | Extend existing filter strip to reduce excess sediment in surface water | $316,502 |
205 | Crop Bundle #18 - Precision Ag | $316,043 |
206 | Increase on-site carbon storage | $315,008 |
207 | Create patch openings to enhance wildlife cover and shelter | $310,135 |
208 | Reduced tillage to reduce tillage induced particulate matter | $303,307 |
209 | Stewardship Payment | $298,285 |
210 | Improved crop rotation to provide benefits to pollinators | $295,289 |
211 | Cropland conversion to trees or shrubs for long term improvement of water quality | $285,066 |
212 | Conservation cover to provide habitat continuity for pollinators and beneficial insects | $283,579 |
213 | Create patch openings to enhance wildlife food sources and availability | $272,643 |
214 | No till system to reduce wind erosion | $268,593 |
215 | Biochar production from woody residue | $266,085 |
216 | Improved grazing management for wind erosion through monitoring activities | $266,045 |
217 | Crop tree management for mast production | $264,049 |
218 | Non-Irrigated Precision Ag (MRBI) | $261,413 |
219 | No till to reduce soil erosion | $260,860 |
220 | Forage plantings that can help increase organic matter in depleted soils | $260,801 |
221 | No till system to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $259,000 |
222 | Enhanced field border to provide wildlife food for pollinators along the edge(s) of a field | $255,297 |
223 | Crop Bundle#3 - Soil health rotation- No till | $255,008 |
224 | Use of soil health assessment to assist with development of cover crop mix to improve soil health | $251,311 |
225 | Install variable frequency drive(s) on pump(s) | $249,669 |
226 | No till to increase plant-available moisture: moisture management | $246,460 |
227 | Stream crossing elimination | $243,109 |
228 | No till to reduce energy | $241,963 |
229 | Enhanced field border to provide wildlife cover or shelter along the edge(s) of a field | $229,286 |
230 | Creating structural diversity with patch openings | $221,714 |
231 | Improved grazing management that reduces undesirable plant pest pressure through monitoring | $221,622 |
232 | Facilitating oak forest regeneration | $217,770 |
233 | Range planting for improving forage- browse- or cover for wildlife | $207,091 |
234 | Stockpiling cool season forage to improve structure and composition or plant productivity and health | $206,916 |
235 | Fishpond management for native aquatic and terrestrial species | $194,803 |
236 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation to reduce water erosion | $194,740 |
237 | Forage harvest management that helps maintain wildlife habitat continuity (space) | $194,152 |
238 | Brush management that maintains or enhances wildlife or fish habitat | $192,542 |
239 | Sugarbush management | $191,073 |
240 | Increase riparian forest buffer width to reduce sediment loading | $190,681 |
241 | Forage and biomass planting for water erosion to improve soil health | $187,736 |
242 | Reduce forest density and manage understory along roads to limit wildfire risk | $187,523 |
243 | Forest Bundle#1 | $186,536 |
244 | Enhanced field border to provide wildlife habitat continuity along the edge(s) of a field | $186,060 |
245 | Fence | $183,737 |
246 | Grazing management that protects sensitive areas-ground water from nutrients | $182,408 |
247 | Supplemental Payment Improved | $182,083 |
248 | Erroneous Underpayment | $181,087 |
249 | Soil health crop rotation | $178,773 |
250 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base to improve plant productivity and health | $173,583 |
251 | Manipulate vegetation on fields with captured rainfall for waterfowl & wading bird winter habitat | $168,753 |
252 | Controlled Traffic Farming | $166,219 |
253 | Brush management to improve wildlife habitat | $163,826 |
254 | Reduce height of the forest understory to limit wildfire risk | $154,109 |
255 | Grazing management for improving quantity and quality of food for wildlife | $153,487 |
256 | Other Payment | $151,109 |
257 | Reduce forest density and manage understory along roads to improve wildlife food sources | $150,864 |
258 | Native grasses or legumes in forage base | $150,541 |
259 | Prescribed grazing that improves or maintains riparian/watershed function-elevated water temperature | $145,697 |
260 | Forage harvest management that helps maintain wildlife habitat cover- shelter or continuity | $145,676 |
261 | Intensive cover cropping (orchard/vineyard floor) to increase soil health and SOM content | $145,509 |
262 | Establishing native grass or legumes in forage base to improve the plant community | $138,934 |
263 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation for soil organic matter improvement | $135,439 |
264 | Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture | $133,666 |
265 | Range planting for increasing/maintaining organic matter | $130,769 |
266 | Firebreak | $129,208 |
267 | Enhancement - Pest Management | $128,922 |
268 | Increase on-site carbon storage | $128,698 |
269 | Cropland conversion to trees or shrubs for long term water erosion control | $128,527 |
270 | Ogallala Bundle#2 | $127,650 |
271 | Grazing management for improving quantity and quality of cover and shelter for wildlife | $126,748 |
272 | Improved grazing management on pasture for plant productivity and health with monitoring activities | $125,540 |
273 | Forage Harvest Management | $124,367 |
274 | Shorebird habitat- late season shallow water with manipulation to enhance habitat continuity | $124,314 |
275 | Increase diversity in pine plantation monocultures | $123,417 |
276 | Cropland conversion to grass-based agriculture for soil organic matter improvement | $122,606 |
277 | Resource conserving crop rotation to reduce wind erosion | $118,418 |
278 | Prescribed Burning | $117,864 |
279 | Automated Intermittent flood irrigation of rice fields- Year 2-5 | $114,797 |
280 | Strategic patch burning for grazing distribution/wildlife habitat (undesirable plant pressure) | $114,287 |
281 | Mulching | $112,442 |
282 | Critical Area Planting | $111,527 |
283 | Increase riparian forest buffer width for nutrient reduction | $109,836 |
284 | Stream habitat improvement through placement of woody biomass | $109,560 |
285 | Non-Irrigated Cropland (MRBI) | $108,658 |
286 | Forage and biomass planting that produces feedstock for biofuels or energy production | $104,887 |
287 | MRBI Bundle#3 - Non-Irrigated Cropland #2 | $99,905 |
288 | Early Successional Habitat Development-Mgt | $99,421 |
289 | Complete pumping plant evaluation for all pumps on a farm. | $99,120 |
290 | Forest songbird habitat maintenance | $98,907 |
291 | Reduce forest density and manage understory along roads to limit wildfire risk and improve habitat | $97,826 |
292 | Enhanced field borders to increase carbon storage along the edge(s) of the field | $96,940 |
293 | Equitable Relief Payment | $93,799 |
294 | Facilitating oak forest regeneration | $92,027 |
295 | No till to reduce tillage induced particulate matter | $88,242 |
296 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation to relieve plant pest pressure | $87,518 |
297 | Increase riparian herbaceous cover width to enhance wildlife habitat | $86,303 |
298 | MRBI Bundle#6 - Pastureland | $86,210 |
299 | YEAR 2+ Irrigated Cropland (MRBI/Ogallala) | $84,113 |
300 | Native grass or legumes in forage base to provide wildlife food | $79,793 |
301 | Prescribed grazing on pastureland that improves riparian and watershed function | $79,227 |
302 | Edge feathering for wildlife cover | $77,547 |
303 | Existing Practice Payment | $75,583 |
304 | Tree/Shrub Site Preparation | $74,463 |
305 | Incorporating wildlife refuge areas in contingency plans for livestock feed and forage | $73,914 |
306 | Extend existing filter strip to reduce water quality impacts | $73,159 |
307 | Reduction of attractants to human-subsidized predators in sensitive wildlife species habitat | $72,934 |
308 | Stream corridor bank stability improvement | $72,915 |
309 | Structures for Wildlife | $72,285 |
310 | Extend existing filter strip to reduce excess pathogens and chemicals in surface water | $72,280 |
311 | Range planting for improving forage- browse- or cover for wildlife | $72,181 |
312 | Improved grazing management for soil compaction on pasture through monitoring activities | $71,629 |
313 | No till to increase plant-available moisture: irrigation water | $71,529 |
314 | Forest songbird habitat maintenance | $69,233 |
315 | Increase the size requirement of refuges planted to slow pest resistance to Bt crops | $68,354 |
316 | Filter Strip | $67,959 |
317 | Working Lands for Wildlife Bundle | $67,943 |
318 | Grassed Waterway | $66,405 |
319 | Reduced tillage to reduce energy use | $66,021 |
320 | Installing electrical fence offsets and wire for cross-fencing to improve grazing management | $65,884 |
321 | Watering Facility | $65,709 |
322 | Increase riparian herbaceous cover width to reduce sediment loading | $64,767 |
323 | Conservation crop rotation to reduce the concentration of salts | $64,240 |
324 | Shorebird habitat- extended late season shallow water with manipulation to improve food sources | $61,983 |
325 | Pasture Bundle 5 | $61,649 |
326 | Buffer Bundle#1 | $61,139 |
327 | Increase riparian forest buffer width for sediment and nutrient reduction | $60,137 |
328 | Field Border | $60,109 |
329 | Forage plantings that help increase organic matter in depleted soils | $59,904 |
330 | Pasture Bundle#3 -- Soil Health | $58,784 |
331 | Enhancement - Nutrient Management | $58,585 |
332 | Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect food habitat | $58,281 |
333 | Forest Trails and Landings | $58,254 |
334 | Cropland conversion to trees or shrubs for long term improvement of water quality | $57,668 |
335 | Implementing sustainable practices for pine straw raking | $57,612 |
336 | Apply gypsum products to improve surface WQ quality by reducing dissolved P conc in surface runoff | $56,830 |
337 | Installation of end of pipe or ditch treatment for nitrogen | $56,210 |
338 | Establish/maintain habitat continuity- naturally occurring vegetation in ditches/ditch bank borders | $55,952 |
339 | Forage plantings that enhance bird habitat (structure and composition) | $53,826 |
340 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation | $53,275 |
341 | Forage plantings that enhance bird habitat cover and shelter or structure and composition | $53,254 |
342 | Manage existing shrub thickets to provide adequate shelter for wildlife | $52,443 |
343 | Range Planting | $52,083 |
344 | Complete pumping plant evaluation for all existing pumps on a farm. | $51,751 |
345 | Enhanced field borders to reduce wind induced erosion along the windward side(s) of a field | $51,297 |
346 | Shallow Water Development and Management | $49,175 |
347 | Enhancement - Water Management | $48,683 |
348 | Grazing Bundle 5 - Range and Pasture | $47,986 |
349 | Incorporating wildlife friendly fencing for connectivity of wildlife food resources | $47,229 |
350 | Salinity and Sodic Soil Management | $46,658 |
351 | Road/Trail/Landing Closure and Treatment | $46,146 |
352 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation to improve soil compaction | $45,911 |
353 | Grazing management for improving quantity and quality of food or cover and shelter for wildlife | $45,652 |
354 | Reducing routine neonicotinoid seed treatments on corn and soybean crops. | $45,162 |
355 | Increase riparian herbaceous cover width for nutrient reduction | $43,870 |
356 | Reduced tillage to reduce tillage induced particulate matter | $43,731 |
357 | Grade Stabilization Structure | $43,257 |
358 | Short-interval prescribed burning to promote a healthy herbaceous plant community | $43,198 |
359 | Roof Runoff Structure | $40,440 |
360 | Converting loblolly and slash pine plantations to longleaf pine with FSI and prescribed burning | $40,384 |
361 | Enhancement - Habitat Management | $39,396 |
362 | Tree/Shrub Pruning | $38,818 |
363 | Stream Crossing | $38,638 |
364 | Renovate small- shallow pothole and playa sites which may seasonally hold water | $34,596 |
365 | Shorebird habitat- late season shallow water with manipulation | $33,920 |
366 | Heavy Use Area Protection | $31,801 |
367 | Cropland conversion to grass-based agriculture to reduce wind erosion | $30,894 |
368 | Grazing management that protects sensitive areas from gully erosion | $29,948 |
369 | Enhancement - Grazing Management | $29,904 |
370 | Forage and biomass planting to reduce soil erosion or increase organic matter to build soil health | $29,591 |
371 | Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect habitat continuity (space) | $27,058 |
372 | Forage plantings that enhance bird habitat (cover and shelter) | $26,427 |
373 | Access Control | $26,011 |
374 | Silvopasture for wildlife habitat (structure and composition) | $25,984 |
375 | Fuel Break | $24,946 |
376 | Complete pumping plant eval for all pumps on a farm to determine the VFD potential | $24,903 |
377 | Pasture Bundle#1 - Organic | $23,562 |
378 | Pasture Bundle#2 | $23,341 |
379 | Grazing management that protects sensitive areas -surface or ground water from nutrients | $23,320 |
380 | Stream corridor bank vegetation improvement | $22,568 |
381 | Sprinkler System | $22,396 |
382 | Livestock Pipeline | $21,375 |
383 | Adding food-producing trees and shrubs to existing plantings | $20,231 |
384 | Increase diversity in pine plantation monocultures | $19,384 |
385 | Strategically planned- patch burning for grazing distribution and wildlife habitat (fuel loading) | $19,025 |
386 | Pumping Plant | $18,640 |
387 | Deep Tillage | $18,421 |
388 | Buffer Bundle#2 | $17,161 |
389 | Amending Soil Properties with Gypsum Products | $16,792 |
390 | Extend the periods of soil saturation or shallow ponding for wildlife | $16,511 |
391 | MRBI Bundle#4 - Cropland with Water Bodies- No till | $16,186 |
392 | Establish and maintenance of moist soil vegetation on cropland edges to increase cover/shelter | $15,727 |
393 | Extend retention of captured rainfall to provide habitat continuity during late winter | $15,476 |
394 | Grazing-maintained fuel break to reduce the risk of fire | $15,423 |
395 | Managing Flood-Irrigated Landscapes for Wildlife | $15,338 |
396 | Stream corridor bank vegetation improvement | $15,235 |
397 | Enhanced field borders to decrease particulate emissions along the edge(s) of the field | $15,011 |
398 | Windbreak/Shelterbelt Renovation | $14,136 |
399 | Enhancement - Air Resource Management | $13,922 |
400 | Grazing management that improves monarch butterfly habitat | $13,737 |
401 | Conservation crop rotation on recently converted CRP grass/legume cover for SOM improvement | $13,136 |
402 | Precision Land Forming and Smoothing | $13,060 |
403 | Pond | $12,427 |
404 | Woody Residue Treatment | $11,840 |
405 | Riparian Forest Buffer | $11,219 |
406 | Enhancement - Energy Management | $10,773 |
407 | Cropland conversion to grass-based agriculture to reduce water erosion | $10,676 |
408 | Extend retention of captured rainfall to provide late winter water habitat | $10,421 |
409 | Windbreak/Shelterbelt Establishment and Renovation | $9,662 |
410 | Dust Control on Unpaved Roads and Surfaces | $9,143 |
411 | Cropland conversion to grass-based agriculture to reduce sediment loading | $9,036 |
412 | Mulching to improve soil health | $8,717 |
413 | Grazing Bundle 2 - Range and Pasture | $8,712 |
414 | Riparian Herbaceous Cover | $8,000 |
415 | Structure for Water Control | $6,904 |
416 | Using cover crops for biological strip till | $6,757 |
417 | Establish and maintenance of moist soil vegetation on cropland edges to increase wildlife food | $6,685 |
418 | Irrigation System- Microirrigation | $6,117 |
419 | Cropland conversion to grass-based agriculture to reduce soil erosion | $5,793 |
420 | Converting loblolly and slash pine plantations to longleaf pine to retain soil moisture | $5,782 |
421 | Judicial or NAD Payment | $5,725 |
422 | Mulching to improve soil health | $5,636 |
423 | Cropland conversion to grass for soil organic matter improvement | $4,638 |
424 | Shorebird habitat- late season shallow water with manipulation to improve food sources | $4,556 |
425 | Conservation crop rotation on recently converted CRP grass/legume cover for wind erosion | $4,455 |
426 | Drainage Water Management | $4,226 |
427 | Crop Bundle#7 - Soil Health -Organic | $3,845 |
428 | Cropland conversion to trees or shrubs for long term wind erosion control | $3,785 |
429 | Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect and/or monarch habitat | $3,256 |
430 | Forage harvest to reduce water quality impacts by utilization of excess soil nutrients | $2,883 |
431 | Establish Monarch butterfly habitat in pastures | $2,449 |
432 | Underground Outlet | $2,399 |
433 | Subsurface Drain | $2,382 |
434 | Wetland Wildlife Habitat Management | $2,315 |
435 | Energy Efficient Agricultural Operation | $2,288 |
436 | Enhancement - Plant Management | $1,930 |
437 | Mulching with natural materials in specialty crops for weed control | $1,916 |
438 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation to reduce wind erosion | $1,880 |
439 | Grazing-maintained fuel break to reduce the risk of fire | $1,681 |
440 | Hedgerow Planting | $1,464 |
441 | Silvopasture for wildlife habitat (cover and shelter) | $1,326 |
442 | Stream Habitat Improvement and Management | $1,277 |
443 | Enhancement - Drainage Management | $1,029 |
444 | Establish wildlife corridors to enhance access to water | $953 |
445 | Conservation crop rotation on recently converted CRP grass/legume cover for water erosion | $867 |
446 | Silvopasture to improve wildlife habitat | $665 |
447 | Establish wildlife corridors to provide habitat continuity | $625 |
448 | Apply gypsum to improve WQ- contaminants transported from manure/biosolid application-surface water | $615 |
449 | Apply gypsum products to improve surface WQ by reducing dissolved P conc in subsurface drainage | $240 |
450 | Land Smoothing | $235 |
451 | Silvopasture Establishment | $165 |
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Total Payments, 2017-2022 | 4,739,014,522 |
NRCS 2024 climate smart practice.
NRCS 2024 provisional climate smart practice.
NCRS climate smart practices on CSP acres, 2017-2022, the United States
Rank | Practice | Payments, 2017-2022 |
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1 | Establish Monarch butterfly habitat | $10,670,604 |
2 | Cover Crop | $10,657,715 |
3 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses | $8,398,192 |
4 | Reduce risks of nutrient loss to surface water by utilizing precision agriculture technologies | $6,888,107 |
5 | Nutrient Management | $4,586,307 |
6 | Prescribed Grazing | $4,540,686 |
7 | Planting for high carbon sequestration rate | $1,912,199 |
8 | Herbaceous Weed Treatment | $1,832,567 |
9 | Increase stream shading for stream temperature reduction | $1,752,274 |
10 | Residue and Tillage Management- Reduced Till | $1,750,216 |
11 | Herbaceous weed treatment to create plant communities consistent with the ecological site | $1,589,258 |
12 | Summer roosting habitat for native forest-dwelling bat species | $1,457,825 |
13 | Clipping mature forages to set back vegetative growth for improved forage quality | $1,447,660 |
14 | Residue and Tillage Management- No Till | $1,275,622 |
15 | Forest management to enhance understory vegetation | $1,256,099 |
16 | Conservation Crop Rotation | $1,226,239 |
17 | Pasture and Hay Planting | $1,138,730 |
18 | Maintaining quantity and quality of forage for animal health and productivity | $1,113,013 |
19 | Management Intensive Rotational Grazing | $945,286 |
20 | Conservation Cover | $943,529 |
21 | Reduced tillage to reduce soil erosion | $941,415 |
22 | Resource conserving crop rotation | $896,518 |
23 | Maintaining and improving forest soil quality | $891,995 |
24 | Modifications to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $878,765 |
25 | Tree/shrub planting for wildlife food | $777,570 |
26 | Reduced tillage to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $764,377 |
27 | Improved grazing management through monitoring activities | $689,387 |
28 | Prescribed grazing that improves or maintains riparian and watershed function-erosion | $635,809 |
29 | Reduce forest stand density to create open stand structure | $616,666 |
30 | Irrigation Water Management | $613,743 |
31 | Intensive cover cropping to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $597,189 |
32 | Use of multi-species cover crops to improve soil health and increase soil organic matter | $566,120 |
33 | Cover crop to reduce soil erosion | $562,450 |
34 | Brush Management | $538,952 |
35 | Forest Stand Improvement | $492,105 |
36 | Improving nutrient uptake efficiency and reducing risk of nutrient losses on pasture | $461,286 |
37 | Cover crop to reduce water quality degradation by utilizing excess soil nutrients | $453,240 |
38 | Tree/Shrub Establishment | $436,320 |
39 | Forest Stand Improvement to rehabilitate degraded hardwood stands | $420,580 |
40 | Cover crop to suppress excessive weed pressures and break pest cycles | $407,304 |
41 | Implementing Bale or Swath Grazing to increase organic matter and reduce nutrients in surface water | $380,991 |
42 | Cover crop to minimize soil compaction | $371,405 |
43 | Establishing tree/shrub species to restore native plant communities | $361,540 |
44 | Conservation cover for pollinators and beneficial insects | $322,859 |
45 | Crop tree management for mast production | $264,049 |
46 | No till to reduce soil erosion | $260,860 |
47 | No till system to increase soil health and soil organic matter content | $259,000 |
48 | Creating structural diversity with patch openings | $221,714 |
49 | Facilitating oak forest regeneration | $217,770 |
50 | Stockpiling cool season forage to improve structure and composition or plant productivity and health | $206,916 |
51 | Soil health crop rotation | $178,773 |
52 | Brush management to improve wildlife habitat | $163,826 |
53 | Reduce height of the forest understory to limit wildfire risk | $154,109 |
54 | Reduced tillage to increase plant-available moisture | $133,666 |
55 | Increase on-site carbon storage | $128,698 |
56 | Improved grazing management on pasture for plant productivity and health with monitoring activities | $125,540 |
57 | Prescribed Burning | $117,864 |
58 | Mulching | $112,442 |
59 | Critical Area Planting | $111,527 |
60 | Enhanced field borders to increase carbon storage along the edge(s) of the field | $96,940 |
61 | Prescribed grazing on pastureland that improves riparian and watershed function | $79,227 |
62 | Extend existing filter strip to reduce water quality impacts | $73,159 |
63 | Range planting for improving forage- browse- or cover for wildlife | $72,181 |
64 | Forest songbird habitat maintenance | $69,233 |
65 | Filter Strip | $67,959 |
66 | Grassed Waterway | $66,405 |
67 | Reduced tillage to reduce energy use | $66,021 |
68 | Increase riparian forest buffer width for sediment and nutrient reduction | $60,137 |
69 | Field Border | $60,109 |
70 | Forage plantings that help increase organic matter in depleted soils | $59,904 |
71 | Improved resource conserving crop rotation | $53,275 |
72 | Range Planting | $52,083 |
73 | Reduced tillage to reduce tillage induced particulate matter | $43,731 |
74 | Grazing management that protects sensitive areas from gully erosion | $29,948 |
75 | Forage and biomass planting to reduce soil erosion or increase organic matter to build soil health | $29,591 |
76 | Fuel Break | $24,946 |
77 | Grazing management that protects sensitive areas -surface or ground water from nutrients | $23,320 |
78 | Sprinkler System | $22,396 |
79 | Pumping Plant | $18,640 |
80 | Woody Residue Treatment | $11,840 |
81 | Riparian Forest Buffer | $11,219 |
82 | Windbreak/Shelterbelt Establishment and Renovation | $9,662 |
83 | Mulching to improve soil health | $8,717 |
84 | Riparian Herbaceous Cover | $8,000 |
85 | Using cover crops for biological strip till | $6,757 |
86 | Irrigation System- Microirrigation | $6,117 |
87 | Cropland conversion to grass-based agriculture to reduce soil erosion | $5,793 |
88 | Cropland conversion to grass for soil organic matter improvement | $4,638 |
89 | Establish pollinator and/or beneficial insect and/or monarch habitat | $3,256 |
90 | Energy Efficient Agricultural Operation | $2,288 |
91 | Mulching with natural materials in specialty crops for weed control | $1,916 |
92 | Grazing-maintained fuel break to reduce the risk of fire | $1,681 |
93 | Hedgerow Planting | $1,464 |
94 | Silvopasture to improve wildlife habitat | $665 |
95 | Silvopasture Establishment | $165 |
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Total Climate Smart CSP payments, 2017-2022 | $83,270,852 | |
Climate Smart CSP payments, 2017-2022 | $72,135,890 | |
Provisional Climate Smart CSP payments, 2017-2022 | $11,134,962 |
NRCS 2024 climate smart practice.
NRCS 2024 provisional climate smart practice.
CSP payments by state, 2017-2022
Rank | State | CSP Payments, 2017-2022 |
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1 | South Dakota | $417,367,602 |
2 | Minnesota | $365,468,425 |
3 | Arkansas | $363,469,416 |
4 | North Dakota | $340,221,506 |
5 | Mississippi | $333,113,513 |
6 | Nebraska | $279,916,658 |
7 | Georgia | $238,016,522 |
8 | Oklahoma | $229,692,446 |
9 | Kansas | $214,658,433 |
10 | Illinois | $185,969,683 |
11 | Montana | $181,205,881 |
12 | Iowa | $166,899,235 |
13 | Missouri | $155,918,088 |
14 | Louisiana | $150,661,813 |
15 | Texas | $138,655,832 |
16 | Wisconsin | $116,376,482 |
17 | Colorado | $106,817,065 |
18 | Oregon | $103,007,921 |
19 | Washington | $98,209,257 |
20 | New Mexico | $86,357,012 |
21 | Indiana | $53,059,964 |
22 | Tennessee | $41,532,489 |
23 | Michigan | $37,944,095 |
24 | Alabama | $35,607,589 |
25 | Virginia | $35,598,308 |
26 | Ohio | $35,123,986 |
27 | Pennsylvania | $34,967,422 |
28 | Kentucky | $33,810,295 |
29 | South Carolina | $33,714,796 |
30 | Idaho | $31,297,350 |
31 | Utah | $30,982,737 |
32 | New York | $26,838,367 |
33 | Wyoming | $22,468,016 |
34 | California | $20,959,691 |
35 | North Carolina | $20,485,729 |
36 | Florida | $13,550,106 |
37 | West Virginia | $12,321,835 |
38 | Arizona | $8,809,775 |
39 | Delaware | $6,633,250 |
40 | Maryland | $4,524,639 |
41 | Alaska | $3,266,943 |
42 | Nevada | $2,185,232 |
43 | Maine | $1,647,809 |
44 | New Hampshire | $1,502,782 |
45 | New Jersey | $1,372,955 |
46 | Vermont | $1,306,090 |
47 | Hawaii | $1,305,304 |
48 | Connecticut | $891,760 |
49 | Rhode Island | $886,217 |
50 | Puerto Rico | $771,947 |
51 | American Samoa | $725,238 |
52 | Massachusetts | $716,740 |
53 | Northern Mariana Islands | $57,957 |
54 | Guam | $28,691 |
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USDA Census of Agriculture Data for the United States, 2022
Land in the United States, 2022
Land type | Acres |
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Number of Farms: | 1,900,487 |
Total Acres in Farms: | 880,100,848 |
Cropland Acres: | 382,356,350 |
Permanent pasture and rangeland: | 392,981,662 |
Woodland Acres: | 72,066,694 |
Livestock in the United States, 2022
Livestock | Number of Animals |
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Broilers and other meat-type chickens sold | 9,176,809,391 |
Layers inventory | 388,509,039 |
Cattle and calves inventory | 87,954,742 |
Hogs and pigs inventory | 73,817,751 |
Sheep and lambs inventory | 5,104,328 |