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
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
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

USDA Census of Agriculture Data for the United States, 2022

Land in the United States, 2022

Livestock in the United States, 2022

Crops in the United States, 2022