United States Department of Agriculture Conservation

Reserve Program

ANNUAL SUMMARY AND ENROLLMENT STATISTICS

FY 2011

This report provides statistics for land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), including a summary of FY 2011 CRP related activities, FY 2011 CRP outlays by payment type, continuous CRP enrollment activity, outlay and sign-up history, CRP practice and payment provisions, and environmental benefits index (EBI) history. The tables are based on contract data developed and maintained in CRP data files by Farm Service Agency (FSA) service centers and are generally based on the physical location of the CRP contracted land. The FY 2011 ended September 30, 2011.

Data from Nevada, and Rhode Island not reported because of confidentiality concerns. Data from these States are included in the totals.

The report was prepared by Alex Barbarika, Natural Resources Analysis Group, Economic and Policy Analysis Staff (EPAS), Farm Service Agency (FSA), U.S. Department of Agriculture.

FSA’s Conservation and Environmental Programs Division operates the CRP and maintains the data used in this report.

CONTENTS

Overview ...... 1 Activities ...... 2 Environmental Benefits of CRP...... 3 CRP Description and History...... 10 Acres Enrolled by Year and Signup, Cumulative ...... 17 Number of Contracts by Year and Signup, Cumulative ...... 18 Outlays by Payment Type and State ...... 19 Enrollment by Signup Type and State ...... 20 Enrollment by Conservation Practice ...... 26 Enrollment by Erodibility Index ...... 33 Enrollment by Wetland Practice ...... 34 Enrollment by Cover Type ...... 35 Expirations by Year ...... 36 Sign-up Periods and Eligibility Criteria ...... 38 Conservation Practices and Payment Provisions ...... 40 Environmental Benefits Index Factors and Points ...... 42

CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM CONTRACTS IN EFFECT, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Sign-up Type Contracts Farms Acres Annual Rental Payments b/ ($Million) ($/Acre) General 348,459 228,746 26,230,886 $1,213 $46.25 Continuous Non-CREP 321,078 191,943 3,419,164 $317 $92.64 CREP 69,768 45,927 1,220,523 $158 $129.76 Farmable Wetland 13,825 10,876 253,797 $29 $113.40 Total Continuous 404,671 235,304 a/ 4,893,485 $504 $102.97 Total 753,130 417,705 a/ 31,124,371 $1,707 $55.17 a/ Number of farms not additive across sign-up types because a farm may participate in multiple sign-up types. b/ Approximates payments which were paid October 2011 (FY 2012), before adjustments for haying/grazing, non-compliance, terminations, part-year contracts. Includes annual incentive and maintenance allowance, but not one-time up-front signing and practice incentive payments.

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CRP ACTIVITIES, FY 2011

October, 2010 • Increased State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement (SAFE) initiative allocations to Washington, Kansas, and Idaho by a total of 95,000 acres. • Expanded the areas eligible for the Illinois CREP. Total enrollment goal remains at 232,000 acres.

December 23, 2010 • President Obama recognizes 25th anniversary of CRP (1985 Farm Bill signed into law December 23, 1985).

January 2011 • FY 2011 general signup (#41) dates announced.

March 2011 • Announced the Louisiana CREP II (Coastal Prairie Region) agreement, targeting 15,050 acres. • Signup 41 began March 14, 2011 and lasted through April 15, 2011.

June 2011 • Announced acceptance of 2.8 million acres under general signup 41.

August 2011 • Announced increased acreage allocation for Kansas’ Upper Arkansas River CREP from 20,000 acres to 28,950 acres.

September 2011 • Expanded eligible land available for enrollment in Nebraska’s Platte-Republican River CREP. Enrollment goal remains 100,000 acres of cropland.

Conservation Reserve Program Outlays ($1,000) 1/

Payment FY 2006 FY 2007 FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2011 Annual Rental $1,666,462 $1,727,408 $1,785,767 $1,720,631 $1,709,079 $1,634,979 Signing Incentive $32,577 $18,366 $25,164 $25,828 Practice Incentive $49,573 $39,026 $43,246 $45,855 $70,181* $71,788* Haying/Grazing Adj. ($8,545) ($9,542) ($12,147) ($12,504) ($9,518) ($14,262) Wetland Restoration Incent. $1,105 $1,030 $932 $517 * * Cost-Share $100,096 $89,844 $84,238 $74,947 $66,721 $99,322 Total Financial Assistance $1,841,268 $1,866,131 $1,927,200 $1,855,274 $1,836,614 $1,791,827

* Breakdown of incentive outlays not provided after FY 2009. 1/ Not including technical assistance. Some outlay totals may have been updated from previous Annual Summaries.

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The Environmental Benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program

Fiscal Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Land Enrolled* million acres 36.8 34.6 33.8 31.3 31.1 In Buffers million acres 1.90 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.01 Wetlands million acres 2.06 1.98 1.98 2.05 2.22 HEL million acres 25.5 23.6 22.8 20.5 20.1

Reductions (not leaving field or intercepted by buffers)** million Sediment tons 216 219 220 220 226 Nitrogen million lbs 623 616 611 607 623 Phosphorus million lbs 124 123 123 122 124

Greenhouse Gas Reduction ( CO2 equivalent/Year)** CO2 Sequestered million metric tons 50 48 47 44 44 Reduced Energy and Fertilizer Use million metric tons 9 9 8 8 7 Total million metric tons 60 57 55 52 51

*Cumulative acres. ** Annual estimate.

CRP improves water quality. Water quality benefits accrue in multiple ways: • CRP reduces the nitrogen and phosphorus leaving a field in runoff and percolate. Using models developed by the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI), in FY 2011 623 million pounds less nitrogen and 124 million pounds less phosphorus left fields due to CRP, 95 and 86 percent reductions, respectively. • Grass filters and riparian buffers (partial field enrollments) intercept sediment, nutrients, and other contaminants before they enter waterways. Using FAPRI’s model it is estimated that in 2011, 377 million pounds of nitrogen and 76 million pounds of phosphorus were intercepted by CRP buffers, nationally. • In 2011, grass and tree plantings reduced nitrate loss by 107 million pounds. Nitrate is a form of nitrogen that is biologically available to algae. Excess nitrate contributes to the formation of hypoxic zones in the Gulf of Mexico, Chesapeake Bay, and other waters. • Wetlands restored and constructed by CRP improve water quality by converting nitrate / nitrogen into benign atmospheric nitrogen. Iowa’s 69 CREP constructed wetland projects on 1,975 acres reduced nitrate runoff by nearly 700,000 pounds.

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CRP enhances wildlife habitat. The 31.1 million acres of grass, trees, and wetlands established by CRP benefit numerous wildlife species. Several independent studies have identified benefits to multiple bird populations including: • Prairie Pothole Ducks – Researchers from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that the CRP contributed to a net increase of about 2 million additional ducks per year (30 percent increase in duck production) since 1992 in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Northeastern Montana. Populations fluctuate on a year-to-year basis due to differences in precipitation patterns. • Ringed-Neck Pheasants – Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. found that, in prime pheasant habitat, a 4 percent increase in CRP herbaceous vegetation was associated with a 22 percent increase in pheasant counts. • Sage Grouse – The Washington Department of Natural Resources found that CRP enrollment was associated with halting a decline (25 percent between 1970 -1988) in sage grouse populations. The study found that a region without substantial CRP enrollment had continued sage grouse population decline. • Northern Bobwhite Quail – Mississippi State University found that quail were positively related to CRP upland buffer enrollment. The quail population response varies by cover and region. • Grassland Birds – The CRP was identified as a ‘Reason for Hope’ for grassland birds in United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2009 ‘State of the Birds’ report, which documented serious declines in grassland birds. Researchers from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, and the University of Montana found that CRP had a large impact on grassland bird populations, including two birds designated as species of continental importance by Partners in Flight.

CRP sequesters carbon. CRP sequesters more carbon on private lands than any other federally administered program. In 2011, CRP resulted in the equivalent of a 51 million metric ton net reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) from CO2 sequestration, reduced fuel use, and nitrous oxide emissions avoided from not applying fertilizer. Carbon sequestration helps offset the release of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere. GHG have been associated with anthropogenic climate change

CRP protects and enhances soil productivity. CRP conservation covers reduce erosion and protect soil productivity. By targeting fragile cropland and placing these lands into protective conservation covers, the CRP greatly reduces soil erosion. In 2011, CRP reduced soil erosion by an estimated 325 million tons from pre-CRP levels. Since 1986, CRP has reduced more than 8 billion tons of soil erosion.

CRP reduces downstream flood damage. CRP lands reduce downstream flood damage by helping to reduce peak flows by holding and slowly releasing the storm water.

FSA is using CRP enrollment data, the USDA soils and natural resource inventories, and cooperative agreements with Federal, State, and other partners to refine these performance measures and to estimate the benefits from CRP. For more information see http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=home&subject=ecpa&topic=nra.

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Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Sediment Reduction Estimates

Estimates are based on the results of the modeling done in support of a 2007 study of the water and air quality impacts of the CRP using the Environmental Policy Integrated Climate (EPIC) model and the Agricultural Policy Environmental eXtender (APEX) model 1/.

CRP contract data are sorted to identify acres in grass, trees, and buffers. For whole-field (grass and tree plantings), the models are used to estimate per-acre N, P, and sediment losses from CRP fields, as compared with the losses that would occur if those fields instead cropped, i.e., “with-” vs. “without-” CRP scenarios. The impact of CRP is estimated as the difference between these two scenarios. N and P impacts of CRP buffers are estimated based on the sediment, N, and P losses from the (state) average acres buffered by a typical buffer enrollment and trapping efficiency estimates from NRCS. The total impact on sediment, N, and P is the sum of the grass, tree, and buffer impacts.

1/ Food, and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI). Estimating the Water Quality, Air Quality, and Soil Carbon Benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program. FAPRI -UMC Report #01-07. University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. January 2007.

Carbon Sequestration Estimates

Estimates of total carbon sequestered are developed using CRP contract data. These data are sorted to identify CRP acres in grass, wetlands, and trees. For grasslands and wetlands, estimates of the carbon sequestered per acre are obtained from published reports, and estimates developed by the Agricultural Research Service and U.S. Geological Survey. These data are merged with CRP contract data to estimate total carbon sequestered by CRP grasslands and wetlands. Because the carbon sequestered by forestlands varies by tree species and the age of the stand, the CRP tree data are sorted by region and age. U.S. Forest Service estimates of carbon sequestered per acre by region, tree species, and age are merged with the corresponding data from CRP contract data. Total carbon sequestered is the sum of the grassland, wetland, and forestland estimates.

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Mississippi River Basin 2011

The Environmental Benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program

Fiscal Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Land Enrolled * million acres 25.0 23.4 22.7 21.0 20.7 In Buffers million acres 1.31 1.39 1.32 1.40 1.31 In Wetland million acres 1.27 1.21 1.22 1.29 1.35 HEL million acres 18.6 17.3 16.7 14.9 14.6

Reductions (intercepted by buffers or not leaving field) ** Sediment million tons 175 175 164 159 165 Nitrogen million lbs 454 430 431 431 446 Phosphorus million lbs 93 89 89 89 91

Greenhouse Gas Reduction (CO2 equivalent/year) ** CO2 Sequestered million metric tons 30 30 29 28 28 Reduced Energy and Fertilizer Use million metric tons 6 6 6 5 5 Total million metric tons 36 36 35 33 33

*Cumulative acres. ** Annual estimate.

• In 2011, CRP grass filters and riparian buffers intercepted 120 million tons of sediment in the Mississippi River Basin, 290 million pounds of nitrogen, 57 million pounds of phosphorus, and other contaminants, before they entered waterways. • In 2011, grass and tree plantings reduced nitrate loss by 58 million pounds. Nitrate is a form of nitrogen that is biologically available to algae, and excess nitrate contributes to the formation of the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone. • Wetlands restored and constructed by CRP improve water quality by converting nitrate / nitrogen into benign atmospheric nitrogen through denitrification. In 2011, Iowa’s 69 CREP constructed wetland projects acres reduced nitrate runoff by nearly 700,000 pounds. • In prime ringed-neck-pheasant habitat, a 4 percent increase in CRP herbaceous vegetation was associated with a 22 percent increase in pheasant counts. • CRP lands reduce downstream flood damage by helping to reduce peak flows after storm events by holding and slowly releasing the stormwater.

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Prairie Pothole Region 2011

The Environmental Benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Land Enrolled* million acres 8.5 7.7 7.4 7.2 7.1 In Wetlands 1,000 acres 1,661 1,567 1,558 1,581 1,686 In Buffers 1,000 acres 314 316 321 321 320 Reductions (intercepted by buffers or not leaving field) ** Sediment million tons 23 23 23 23 24 Nitrogen million lbs 116 113 113 113 117 Phosphorus million lbs 12 12 11 11 12 CO2 Sequestered** million metric tons 10 9 9 9 9

*Cumulative acres. ** Annual estimate.

• CRP buffers intercept sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus from farmed fields in the Prairie Pothole Region. In 2011, 320 thousand acres of CRP grass filters and riparian buffers intercepted 21 million tons of sediment in the Prairie Pothole Region, 74 million pounds of nitrogen, and 10 million pounds of phosphorus. • The CRP was identified as a ‘Reason for Hope’ for grassland birds in the ‘State of the Birds’ report (FWS, 2009). • CRP increased Prairie Pothole duck populations by an average of 2 million ducks per year between 1992 and 2004 (FWS). • CRP reduces nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment leaving fields. In 2011, grass and tree plantings reduced nitrate loss by 31 million pounds. • CRP restores Prairie Pothole floodwater storage function – USGS estimated that CRP wetland catchments could store approximately 458,000 acre-feet of water annually.

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Chesapeake Bay Basin 2011

Environmental Benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program

Fiscal Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Land Enrolled* 1,000 acres 322 316 303 302 300 In Buffers 1,000 acres 100 105 103 107 105 In Wetlands 1,000 acres 5 5 6 6 6 Reductions (intercepted by buffers or not leaving field)** Sediment million tons 11 11 11 11 11 Nitrogen million lbs 27 27 27 27 27 Phosphorus million lbs 7 7 7 7 7

CO2 Sequestered** million metric tons 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5

*Cumulative acres. ** Annual estimate.

CRP buffers intercept sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus from farmed fields: • In the Chesapeake Bay watershed, buffers intercepted 8 million tons of sediment, 16 million pounds of nitrogen, and 5 million pounds of phosphorus in 2011.

Fields enrolled in CRP reduce the amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment leaving fields in runoff and percolate: • CRP reduces the nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment leaving a field in runoff and percolate. Ninety five percent less nitrogen and 86 percent less phosphorus is lost from CRP fields than fields that are not in CRP.

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Great Lakes Region 2011

The Environmental Benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Land Enrolled* 1,000 acres 613 565 531 507 493 In Buffers 1,000 acres 104 106 103 106 103 In Wetlands 1,000 acres 31 32 34 33 35

Reductions (intercepted by buffers or not leaving field) ** Sediment million tons 4 4 4 4 4 Nitrogen million lbs 17 15 15 15 15 Phosphorus million lbs 3 3 3 3 3

CO2 Sequestered ** million metric tons 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7

*Cumulative acres. ** Annual estimate

CRP buffers intercept sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus from farmed fields: • In 2011, in the Great Lakes Region 103 thousand acres of CRP grass filters and riparian buffers intercepted 3 million tons of sediment, 10 million pounds of nitrogen, 2 million pounds of phosphorus, and other contaminants before they entered waterways.

Fields enrolled in CRP reduce nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment leaving fields in runoff and percolate: • CRP reduces the nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment leaving a field in runoff and percolate. 95 percent less nitrogen and 86 percent less phosphorus is lost from CRP fields. In 2011, grass and tree plantings reduced nitrate loss by 3 million pounds.

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CRP Eligibility Must have appropriate cropping history, or be marginal pasture in or near a riparian area or be subject to an expiring CRP contract; AND • For general signup, must be: highly erodible, located in a State or National conservation priority area, or under an expiring CRP contract. • For continuous signup, must be suitable to serve as one of a number of conservation practices, such as a wetland restoration, filterstrip, riparian buffer, or field windbreak; or be eligible for CREP enrollment. Cropping History Under the 2008 Farm Bill, must have been planted or considered planted to an agricultural commodity in 4 of the 6 years prior to 2008. Land coming out of CRP is considered planted (unless it is in trees), as is hay in rotation.

Annual Rental payment: • Based on soil-specific rental rates. • Adjusted for each particular soil’s productivity. • Reflect rental rates for comparable land in dryland crop production.

Signing Incentive payment (SIP): • A one-time payment of $100-$150/acre when contract is approved. • Applies to specified continuous signup practices (see Practice description table in the Appendix).

Practice Incentive payment (PIP): • A one-time payment made when practice installation is complete. • Amount equal to 40 percent of total installation cost. • Applies to specified continuous signup practices (see Practice description table in the Appendix).

Haying/Grazing Adjustment: • Reflects annual rental payment reductions (typically 25 percent) taken when CRP land is hayed or grazed. • Participants allowed to hay or graze in response to emergency (drought) or when undertaking managed or routine haying or grazing.

Cost-Share payment: • Amount equal to 50 percent of practice installation costs.

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CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM

Under the Conservation Reserve Program converting highly erodible and other (CRP), the U. S. Department of Agriculture environmentally sensitive cropland and (USDA) establishes contracts with agricultural marginal pasture to long-term resource producers to retire highly erodible and other conserving covers. In exchange for annual environmentally sensitive cropland and pasture. rental payments and cost-share assistance of up During the 10- to 15-year CRP contract period, to 50 percent of cover establishment costs, farmland is converted to grass, trees, wildlife agricultural landowners and operators agree to cover, or other conservation uses providing establish and maintain an approved permanent environmental benefits, including surface water cover on enrolled acreage for 10 to 15 years. quality improvement, wildlife habitat creation, The 1985 Act directed the Department of carbon sequestration, preservation of soil Agriculture to enroll 40 to 45 million acres by productivity, protection of groundwater quality, 1990 with a primary goal of reducing soil and reduction of offsite wind erosion damages. erosion on highly erodible cropland. Secondary The program also assists farmers by providing a objectives included protecting the Nation's long- dependable source of income. The program was run capability to produce food and fiber, established by the Food Security Act of 1985, reducing sedimentation, improving water and was later amended by the Food, quality, fostering wildlife habitat, curbing Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of production of surplus commodities, and 1990, the Federal Agriculture Improvement and providing income support for farmers. Reform Act of 1996, the Farm Security and Enrollment is generally limited to 25 percent of Rural Investment Act of 2002, and the Food, the cropland within each county. Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008. The Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and The CRP is administered by USDA’s Farm Trade Act of 1990 extended CRP through Service Agency with technical assistance from 1995 and expanded types of land eligible for USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation enrollment to include lands that could reduce Service and Forest Service, and from non- on-site or off-site threats to water quality if Federal technical service providers. Participants removed from production. Following 1990 Act receive annual rental payments during the passage, USDA’s Farm Service Agency adopted contract period and half the cost of establishing new rental payment caps based on soil-specific conservation covers. There are two primary productivity-based rental rates, and developed ways for farmers and ranchers to participate in an environmental benefits index (EBI) to rank the CRP: general sign-up and continuous sign- offers. up. Continuous sign-up includes the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) and the Farmable Wetlands Program. The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 re-authorized CRP

enrollment through 2002 and set a maximum enrollment of 36.4 million acres at any one time. CRP LEGISLATIVE AND PROGRAMMATIC HISTORY Following passage of the 1996 Act, FSA

modified the Environmental Benefits Index (EBI) to explicitly include a wildlife benefits Title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 component, which was given equal weight with established the Conservation Reserve Program soil erosion and water quality benefits. (CRP) to assist owners and operators in conserving and improving soil, water, and

wildlife resources on their farms and ranches by -11- Also in 1996, USDA initiated enrollment of erosion, water quality, and wildlife. Practices selected practices, such as filter strips and eligible under marginal pasture criteria, which riparian buffers, on a continuous basis without have no cropping history requirement, are competition. An annual incentive payment equal expanded to permit appropriate vegetative to 20 percent of the annual rental rate was covers, rather than requiring the land be planted provided for many of these practices. In 1998, only to trees. FSA created the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP), further Other changes included extending eligibility to advancing CRP’s environmental targeting. field remnants made infeasible for farming CREP authorizes State-Federal conservation where buffer practices are enrolled; cropland partnerships that address specific State and where enrollment would provide water nationally significant water quality, soil erosion, conservation benefits; and land subject to and wildlife habitat concerns related to expiring CRP contracts. The 2002 Act also agriculture. CREP enrollment is held on a expanded FWP from the original six States to all continuous basis; enrollment may include both States and raised the enrollment cap to general and continuous sign-up practices, and 1,000,000 acres. While maximum wetland size additional financial incentives are generally was increased to 10 acres, only 5 acres are provided. An up-front signing incentive eligible to receive rental payments. payment and a practice incentive payment were established in 2000 to further enhance Re-enrollment and extension of 2007- to continuous enrollment, including CREP. 2010-expiring contracts (REX). To ensure Descriptions of practices and corresponding that CRP’s benefits continue without payment provisions are provided in the interruption, FSA in 2006 offered holders of Appendix. contracts set to expire between 2007 and 2010 (28 million acres) the opportunity to re-enroll or The FY 2001 Agriculture Appropriations Act extend their contracts. FSA divided expiring established the Farmable Wetland Program contracts into five equal-size categories (FWP), which provided for non-competitive (quintiles) based on environmental benefits enrollment under continuous sign-up provisions index (EBI) scores of the land under contract. and incentives for up to 500,000 acres of small FSA offered the quintile with the highest EBI non-flood plain wetlands and adjacent uplands scores new 10 or 15-year contracts. The 2nd in 6 States (Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North highest quintile were offered 5-year contract Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana). extensions, the 3rd highest were offered 4-year Enrollment was limited to 100,000 acres per extensions, and so forth. This action preserved State. farmers’ ability to protect America’s most sensitive agricultural lands. Holders of The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act approximately 82% of expiring contract acres of 2002 extended CRP enrollment authority were approved for re-enrollment or extension. through 2007 and increased the enrollment cap Updated tables detailing REX results as of by 2.8 million acres to 39.2 million acres. Basic February, 2008 are provided in the Appendix. cropland eligibility is re-defined to be land that has been cropped or considered cropped in at The Emergency Supplemental least 4 of the 6 years preceding enactment. Appropriations Act of 2006 established the Previously, basic cropland eligibility required Emergency Forestry Conservation Reserve cropping in at least 2 of the 5 years preceding Program (EFCRP). Provides assistance to sign-up. timberland damaged by the Gulf Coast Hurricanes of 2005 (mainly Katrina and Rita). In addition, the 2002 Act permitted non- Acreage enrolled does not count against the emergency (managed) harvesting of forage CRP enrollment cap. (subject to the requirement that environmental benefits be maintained or enhanced) and required equal consideration be given for soil -12- The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 extended Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) enrollment authority through September 30, 2012 and requires that enrollment be reduced to no more than 32 million acres beginning October 1, 2009. Created the Transition Incentive Program to encourage the sale or lease of expiring CRP lands to beginning or socially disadvantaged farmers.

Other changes include: (1) expansion of Farmable Wetland Pilot Program eligibility criteria; (2) provision of 50-percent cost-share for tree thinning activities; (3) implementation of new payment limitation applicability and new adjusted gross income based eligibility criteria, (4) updated eligibility to require cropping history in at least 4 of 6 years during 2002 to 2007, and (5) provided additional authority to waive the county cropland enrollment limit.

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General Sign-up. • Landowners and operators with eligible lands compete nationally for acceptance based on an environmental benefits index (EBI) during specified enrollment periods. Producers may submit offers below soil-specific maximum rental rates to increase their EBI ranking.

Continuous Sign-up

• Non-CREP. Landowners and operators with eligible lands may enroll certain high priority conservation practices, such as filter strips and riparian buffers, at any time during the year without competition. In addition to annual soil rental payment and cost-share assistance, many practices are eligible for additional annual and one-time up-front financial incentives.

• Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). Under federal-state cooperative conservation efforts, landowners and operators implement projects designed to address specific environmental objectives through targeted CRP enrollments. Sign-up is held on a continuous non- competitive basis and additional financial incentives are generally provided.

• Farmable Wetland Program (FWP). Landowners and operators enroll and restore small cropped wetlands and other lands on a continuous sign-up basis. Lands are also eligible for additional annual and one-time up-front financial incentives. Includes new practices added by the 2008 Farm Bill.

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Cumulative Rental Cost-Share Incentive Total Tech. Asst. Total Fiscal Enrollment 1/ Payments 2/ Payments 3/ Payments 4/ Financial Outlays 5/ Outlays Year (Million Acres) (Million Dollars) 1986 2.0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $8 $8 1987 15.4 $410 $246 $0 $656 $41 $697 1988 24.0 $756 $282 $0 $1,038 $56 $1,094 1989 29.2 $1,149 $181 $0 $1,330 $86 $1,416 1990 32.8 $1,390 $118 $0 $1,508 $0 $1,508 1991 33.2 $1,590 $41 $0 $1,631 $10 $1,641 1992 34.1 $1,613 $39 $0 $1,652 $10 $1,662 1993 35.1 $1,652 $32 $0 $1,684 $0 $1,684 1994 35.0 $1,722 $14 $0 $1,736 $0 $1,736 1995 35.0 $1,729 $4 $0 $1,733 $0 $1,733 1996 33.5 $1,721 $1 $0 $1,722 $9 $1,731 1997 32.8 $1,677 $8 $0 $1,685 $61 $1,746 1998 30.2 $1,597 $96 $0 $1,693 $53 $1,746 1999 29.8 $1,320 $115 $0 $1,435 $56 $1,491 2000 31.4 $1,332 $133 $10 $1,475 $35 $1,510 2001 33.6 $1,396 $150 $78 $1,624 $32 $1,656 2002 33.9 $1,520 $143 $114 $1,777 $20 $1,797 2003 34.1 $1,575 $99 $100 $1,774 $55 $1,829 2004 34.7 $1,588 $117 $84 $1,789 $60 $1,849 2005 34.9 $1,620 $93 $75 $1,788 $75 $1,863 2006 36.0 $1,657 $100 $84 $1,841 $80 $1,919 2007 36.8 $1,718 $90 $58 $1,866 $101 $1,967 2008 34.6 $1,774 $84 $69 $1,927 $65 $1,992 2009 33.7 $1,708 $75 $72 $1,855 $61 $1,916 2010 31.3 $1,714 $67 $70 $1,851 $98 $1,949 2011 31.1 $1,646 $99 $72 $1,817 $95 $1,912 Total -- $37,576 $2,427 $886 $40,889 $1,165 $42,054

1/ Acres under contract at end of fiscal year. 2/ Rental payments in a fiscal year apply to acres under contract in the previous fiscal year. Includes miscellaneous adjustments and adjustments for haying/grazing usage. 3/ Cost-share payments are made after cover establishment work is done. For contracts beginning in a given year, payments can occur over several years. 4/ Signing and Practice Incentive payments for continuous sign-up enrollment. 5/ Technical assistance outlays are generally paid to Natural Resources Conservation Service and Forest Service in the year sign-ups are held. About 90-95 percent of outlays have gone to NRCS and about 5-10 percent to FS.

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CRP Enrollment at End of Each Fiscal Year (Acres)

40 Continuous General 30

20 100

Million Acres 10

0 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 Fiscal Year

CRP Contracts at End of Each Fiscal Year (Number)

500 General Continuous 400

300

200 Thousands

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0 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 Fiscal Year

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FY 2011 CUMULATIVE CRP ENROLLMENT 1/ BY SIGN-UP AND INITIAL CONTRACT YEAR

ACRES ______BEFORE SIGNUP 2004 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 TOTAL

<16 6,916,173 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6,916,173 16 2,992,352 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,992,352 17 110,368 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 110,368 18 3,295,076 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3,295,076 19 138,937 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 138,937 20 1,437,590 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,437,590 21 60,499 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 60,499 22 156,232 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 156,232 23 449,535 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 449,535 24 427,568 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 427,568 25 196,380 53,671 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 250,052 26 0 1,606,967 160,959 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,767,926 27 11,347 168,371 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 179,718 28 0 149,969 98,734 0 0 0 0 0 0 248,703 29 0 0 0 1,000,486 61,719 0 0 0 0 1,062,205 30 0 0 195,437 192,792 0 0 0 0 0 388,229 31 0 0 0 196,516 145,021 0 0 0 0 341,537 32 0 0 0 0 0 2,326,752 871,991 567,334 255,678 4,021,756 33 0 0 0 0 836,669 78 0 0 0 836,747 35 0 0 0 0 156,155 359,521 0 0 0 515,676 36 0 0 0 0 0 212,696 180,856 0 87 393,639 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 231,624 236,437 0 468,062 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 224,235 399,245 623,480 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3,866,798 3,866,798 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175,511 175,511 ALL 16,192,059 1,978,978 455,130 1,389,794 1,199,563 2,899,048 1,284,472 1,028,007 4,697,319 31,124,371

General sign-ups: 1-13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 26, 29, 33, 39. Continuous sign-ups: 14, 17, 19, 21-25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40. Sign-up 21 ended and sign-up 22 began in May 2000. Sign-up 25 ended and sign-up 27 began in May 2003. Sign-up 32 denotes early re-enrollment of 2007-2010 expiring general sign-up contracts under the 2006 REX offer. Sign-up 34 is reserved for Emergency Forestry CRP.

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011. For CRP, contract year is the same as fiscal year, which begins October 1. 2/ Not including sign-up 40 contracts that begin in FY 2012.

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FY 2011 CUMULATIVE CRP ENROLLMENT 1/ BY SIGN-UP AND INITIAL CONTRACT YEAR

NUMBER OF CONTRACTS ______BEFORE SIGNUP 2004 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 TOTAL

<16 83,260 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 83,260 16 36,508 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36,508 17 12,510 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12,510 18 41,250 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41,250 19 14,003 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14,003 20 22,940 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22,940 21 6,007 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6,007 22 15,117 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15,117 23 48,856 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48,856 24 43,781 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43,781 25 20,721 3,631 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24,352 26 0 34,982 1,852 0 0 0 0 0 0 36,834 27 1,687 11,356 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13,043 28 0 16,804 8,069 0 0 0 0 0 0 24,873 29 0 0 0 17,733 510 0 0 0 0 18,243 30 0 0 21,080 11,563 0 0 0 0 0 32,643 31 0 0 0 19,813 10,401 0 0 0 0 30,214 32 0 0 0 0 0 28,167 13,345 8,339 5,240 55,091 33 0 0 0 0 15,761 2 0 0 0 15,763 35 0 0 0 0 13,717 20,578 0 0 0 34,295 36 0 0 0 0 0 15,656 12,158 0 2 27,816 37 0 0 0 0 0 0 15,947 14,160 0 30,107 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13,896 19,442 33,338 39 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41,652 41,652 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10,634 10,634 ALL 346,640 66,773 31,001 49,109 40,389 64,403 41,450 36,395 76,970 753,130

General sign-ups: 1-13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 26, 29, 33, 39. Continuous sign-ups: 14, 17, 19, 21-25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40. Sign-up 21 ended and sign-up 22 began in May 2000. Sign-up 25 ended and sign-up 27 began in May 2003. Sign-up 32 denotes early re-enrollment of 2007-2008 expiring general sign-up contracts under the 2006 REX offer. Sign-up 34 is reserved for Emergency Forestry CRP.

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011. For CRP, contract year is the same as fiscal year, which begins October 1. 2/ Not including sign-up 40 contracts that begin in FY 2012.

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CRP FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, FY 2011 ($1,000)

STATE RENTAL COVER INCENTIVES H/G * TOTAL ALABAM A 18,320 813 514 0 19,647 ALASKA 928 163 0 0 1,090 ARKANSAS 13,271 1,757 1,985 0 17,012

CALIFORNIA 3,954 171 101 -58 4,168

COLORADO 65,301 1,865 362 -384 67,145 CONNECTICUT 11 0 0 0 11 DELAWARE 744 20 0 0 764 FLORIDA 2,298 29 24 0 2,351 GEORGIA 13,626 2,995 3,157 0 19,779 HAWAII 3 353 104 0 460 IDAHO 29,921 1,490 303 -49 31,665 ILLINOIS 110,284 6,441 5,291 -121 121,895 INDIANA 29,484 8,654 6,570 -7 44,701 IOWA 191,601 18,974 10,227 -883 219,920 KANSAS 110,059 6,037 2,294 -1,390 117,000

KCMO-DMD -2,925 0 -626 -4,030 -7,581

KENTUCKY 39,945 3,436 1,604 -7 44,980 LOUISIANA 17,500 2,034 2,586 0 22,121 M AINE 1,075 57 25 0 1,157 M ARYLAND 10,201 795 643 0 11,638 MASSACHUSETTS 3 0 0 0 3 MICHIGAN 19,405 1,525 911 -1 21,840 MINNESOTA 106,132 3,294 3,178 -268 112,336 MISSISSIPPI 38,671 2,049 2,066 0 42,785 MISSOURI 97,233 5,334 1,926 -786 103,708 MONTANA 98,913 380 120 -1,457 97,956 NEBRASKA 63,990 4,508 1,253 -779 68,972

NEVADA 2 0 0 0 2

NEW HAMPSHIRE 3 0 0 0 3 NEW JERSEY 151 329 287 0 768 NEW MEXICO 17,792 69 11 -48 17,824 NEW YORK 3,519 547 493 0 4,560 NORTH CAROLINA 8,023 537 247 0 8,807 NORTH DAKOTA 93,666 1,435 3,332 -1,706 96,727 OHIO 39,091 5,573 4,899 -14 49,549 OKLAHOMA 28,247 1,041 84 -595 28,777 OREGON 27,206 1,451 1,251 -7 29,902 PENNSYLVANIA 22,121 1,573 720 0 24,413 PUERTO RICO 82 0 0 0 82

RHODE ISLAND 2 0 0 0 2

SOUTH CAROLINA 6,273 344 499 0 7,116 SOUTH DAKOTA 54,070 3,998 7,903 -444 65,527 TENNESSEE 13,470 969 482 -5 14,915 TEXAS 115,356 1,622 877 -1,061 116,794 UTAH 4,351 233 0 0 4,584 VERMONT 262 185 133 0 580 VIRGINIA 3,598 1,926 1,687 0 7,211 WASHINGTON 79,123 1,933 3,045 -46 84,055 WEST VIRGINIA 388 430 318 0 1,136 WISCONSIN 32,457 1,485 589 -103 34,428 WYOMING 5,776 468 313 -13 6,544

TOTAL 1,634,979 99,322 71,788 -14,262 1,791,827

* Payment reductons.

-19- CRP ENROLLMENT BY STATE, FY 2011, CUMULATIVE 1/ ------TOTAL CRP (ALL SIGN-UPS)------

NUMBER OF NUMBER OF ANNUAL RENTAL PAYMENTS 3/ STATE 2/ CONTRACTS FARMS ACRES ($1,000) ($/ACRE) U.S. 753,130 417,705 31,124,371 1,716,996 55.17 ALABAMA 9,099 6,489 396,611 18,198 45.88 ALASKA 45 30 19,037 671 35.25 ARKANSAS 5,950 3,292 249,421 14,898 59.73 CALIFORNIA 497 386 121,757 4,616 37.91 COLORADO 12,733 6,181 2,238,975 73,903 33.01 CONNECTICUT 17 13 164 13 78.34 DELAWARE 663 349 6,817 751 110.18 FLORIDA 1,320 1,067 56,298 2,259 40.13 GEORGIA 9,129 6,478 319,720 15,035 47.02 IDAHO 5,213 2,963 664,873 29,475 44.33 ILLINOIS 82,741 45,228 1,037,361 119,108 114.82 INDIANA 38,502 21,528 286,089 31,213 109.10 IOWA 106,736 53,556 1,662,351 212,888 128.06 KANSAS 47,337 26,935 2,732,085 109,698 40.15 KENTUCKY 17,638 9,444 358,155 39,831 111.21 LOUISIANA 5,057 3,217 327,367 20,175 61.63 MAINE 680 471 17,918 929 51.87 MARYLAND 6,451 3,528 79,056 10,928 138.23 MASSACHUSETTS 4 4 15 3 172.53 MICHIGAN 15,225 8,704 228,364 20,160 88.28 MINNESOTA 63,208 33,184 1,635,203 110,267 67.43 MISSISSIPPI 19,877 12,478 849,496 40,908 48.16 MISSOURI 36,586 21,171 1,360,695 100,864 74.13 MONTANA 15,241 6,001 2,853,576 91,745 32.15 NEBRASKA 28,285 15,899 1,071,415 65,195 60.85 NEW HAMPSHIRE 5 5 58 3 55.46 NEW JERSEY 291 204 2,574 181 70.18 NEW MEXICO 1,991 1,290 454,210 15,240 33.55 NEW YORK 2,887 2,037 52,920 3,704 69.99 NORTH CAROLINA 8,081 5,266 117,382 8,070 68.75 NORTH DAKOTA 34,489 16,874 2,647,964 95,945 36.23 OHIO 38,396 21,414 343,604 41,073 119.54 OKLAHOMA 7,503 5,082 858,156 28,792 33.55 OREGON 4,316 2,279 550,870 28,712 52.12 PENNSYLVANIA 12,131 7,625 220,110 22,681 103.05 PUERTO RICO 19 19 2,032 130 63.93 SOUTH CAROLINA 7,652 4,312 158,799 6,096 38.39 SOUTH DAKOTA 31,892 14,893 1,162,216 65,307 56.19 TENNESSEE 7,370 4,909 204,865 13,758 67.16 TEXAS 22,193 16,266 3,455,929 124,530 36.03 UTAH 869 538 167,521 5,192 30.99 VERMONT 378 267 2,820 281 99.76 VIRGINIA 5,870 4,485 63,000 3,744 59.43 WASHINGTON 12,488 5,208 1,457,962 81,420 55.85 WEST VIRGINIA 456 371 5,905 435 73.72 WISCONSIN 24,643 15,099 398,458 31,871 79.99 WYOMING 965 655 223,995 6,087 27.18 NOT REPORTED 11 11 200 12 60.52

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011. 2/ State in which land is located. 3/ Approximates FY 2012 payments, before adjustments for haying/grazing, non-compliance, terminations, part-year contracts. Includes annual incentive and maintenance allowance payments, but not one-time up- front signing and practice incentive payments.

-20- CRP ENROLLMENT BY STATE, FY 2011, CUMULATIVE 1/ ------GENERAL SIGN-UP------

NUMBER OF NUMBER OF ANNUAL RENTAL PAYMENTS 3/ STATE 2/ CONTRACTS FARMS ACRES ($1,000) ($/ACRE) U.S. 348,459 228,746 26,230,886 1,213,091 46.25 ALABAMA 7,485 5,474 347,874 15,742 45.25 ALASKA 34 23 18,431 630 34.19 ARKANSAS 2,127 1,458 124,381 6,036 48.53 CALIFORNIA 325 245 104,008 3,295 31.68 COLORADO 11,448 5,747 2,191,498 70,458 32.15 CONNECTICUT 11 11 107 7 62.70 DELAWARE 54 41 975 77 78.56 FLORIDA 1,285 1,042 55,422 2,213 39.93 GEORGIA 6,490 4,690 233,323 10,023 42.96 IDAHO 4,322 2,449 615,960 25,706 41.73 ILLINOIS 25,350 17,567 581,788 51,952 89.30 INDIANA 7,999 6,069 164,722 13,992 84.95 IOWA 32,213 22,460 1,059,299 116,309 109.80 KANSAS 33,355 21,111 2,604,108 101,864 39.12 KENTUCKY 5,594 4,000 193,272 14,611 75.60 LOUISIANA 2,792 1,953 199,572 9,575 47.98 MAINE 484 342 15,470 762 49.26 MARYLAND 468 378 7,458 756 101.44 MASSACHUSETTS 0 0 0 0 . MICHIGAN 4,793 3,801 134,953 8,836 65.48 MINNESOTA 24,799 16,423 1,185,327 65,759 55.48 MISSISSIPPI 11,694 8,492 641,386 27,310 42.58 MISSOURI 22,994 15,470 1,189,651 84,653 71.16 MONTANA 13,936 5,591 2,722,772 87,290 32.06 NEBRASKA 14,748 9,651 899,343 48,760 54.22 NEW HAMPSHIRE 0 0 0 0 . NEW JERSEY 89 63 1,574 75 47.41 NEW MEXICO 1,921 1,251 448,930 15,017 33.45 NEW YORK 1,150 848 31,164 1,326 42.56 NORTH CAROLINA 3,153 2,443 61,050 2,837 46.48 NORTH DAKOTA 23,147 12,574 2,342,105 79,716 34.04 OHIO 7,272 5,610 172,080 13,709 79.67 OKLAHOMA 7,125 4,851 848,587 28,380 33.44 OREGON 2,464 1,407 500,578 24,743 49.43 PENNSYLVANIA 610 513 14,929 833 55.81 PUERTO RICO 11 11 345 27 76.86 SOUTH CAROLINA 3,565 2,519 113,589 3,802 33.47 SOUTH DAKOTA 10,802 6,339 800,847 36,801 45.95 TENNESSEE 4,969 3,810 177,163 11,345 64.04 TEXAS 20,508 15,091 3,360,842 120,616 35.89 UTAH 838 518 167,228 5,178 30.97 VERMONT 13 12 131 10 76.21 VIRGINIA 1,483 1,202 30,852 1,310 42.46 WASHINGTON 8,229 3,894 1,320,347 70,831 53.65 WEST VIRGINIA 54 49 945 56 59.07 WISCONSIN 15,489 10,744 329,437 24,090 73.12 WYOMING 766 508 217,058 5,774 26.60 NOT REPORTED 1 1 2 0 48.00

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011. 2/ State in which land is located. 3/ Approximates FY 2012 payments, before adjustments for haying/grazing, non-compliance, terminations, part-year contracts. Includes annual maintenance allowance payments.

-21- CRP ENROLLMENT BY STATE, FY 2011, CUMULATIVE 1/ ------TOTAL CONTINUOUS 2/------

NUMBER OF NUMBER OF ANNUAL RENTAL PAYMENTS 4/ STATE 3/ CONTRACTS FARMS ACRES ($1,000) ($/ACRE) U.S. 404,671 235,304 4,893,485 503,905 102.97 ALABAMA 1,614 1,227 48,737 2,456 50.39 ALASKA 11 8 606 41 67.27 ARKANSAS 3,823 2,195 125,040 8,862 70.87 CALIFORNIA 172 151 17,749 1,321 74.41 COLORADO 1,285 749 47,477 3,445 72.56 CONNECTICUT 6 3 58 6 107.37 DELAWARE 609 326 5,842 674 115.46 FLORIDA 35 28 876 46 52.49 GEORGIA 2,639 2,004 86,397 5,011 58.00 IDAHO 891 654 48,913 3,769 77.06 ILLINOIS 57,391 33,751 455,573 67,156 147.41 INDIANA 30,503 17,441 121,367 17,221 141.89 IOWA 74,523 40,468 603,052 96,579 160.15 KANSAS 13,982 8,534 127,977 7,834 61.21 KENTUCKY 12,044 6,436 164,883 25,220 152.96 LOUISIANA 2,265 1,547 127,795 10,600 82.94 MAINE 196 157 2,448 167 68.36 MARYLAND 5,983 3,353 71,599 10,171 142.06 MASSACHUSETTS 4 4 15 3 172.53 MICHIGAN 10,432 5,575 93,410 11,324 121.22 MINNESOTA 38,409 22,027 449,877 44,508 98.93 MISSISSIPPI 8,183 5,496 208,110 13,597 65.34 MISSOURI 13,592 8,470 171,043 16,212 94.78 MONTANA 1,305 636 130,804 4,455 34.06 NEBRASKA 13,537 8,419 172,072 16,435 95.51 NEW HAMPSHIRE 5 5 58 3 55.46 NEW JERSEY 202 148 1,000 106 106.03 NEW MEXICO 70 41 5,280 223 42.32 NEW YORK 1,737 1,246 21,757 2,378 109.28 NORTH CAROLINA 4,928 2,975 56,332 5,233 92.89 NORTH DAKOTA 11,342 6,275 305,859 16,229 53.06 OHIO 31,124 17,755 171,524 27,364 159.54 OKLAHOMA 378 311 9,569 412 43.02 OREGON 1,852 1,129 50,292 3,969 78.91 PENNSYLVANIA 11,521 7,281 205,181 21,848 106.48 PUERTO RICO 8 8 1,687 103 61.29 SOUTH CAROLINA 4,087 2,315 45,210 2,294 50.75 SOUTH DAKOTA 21,090 10,884 361,369 28,506 78.88 TENNESSEE 2,401 1,612 27,702 2,413 87.11 TEXAS 1,685 1,372 95,087 3,914 41.17 UTAH 31 24 292 14 46.65 VERMONT 365 256 2,690 271 100.90 VIRGINIA 4,387 3,395 32,147 2,434 75.72 WASHINGTON 4,259 2,313 137,615 10,589 76.95 WEST VIRGINIA 402 333 4,960 379 76.51 WISCONSIN 9,154 5,793 69,021 7,781 112.74 WYOMING 199 164 6,936 313 45.19 NOT REPORTED 10 10 198 12 60.65

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011. 2/ Includes CREP, non-CREP, and Farmable Wetland Program. 3/ State in which land is located. 4/ Approximates FY 2012 payments, before adjustments for haying/grazing, non-compliance, terminations, part-year contracts. Includes annual incentive and maintenance allowance payments, but not one-time up- front signing and practice incentive payments.

-22- CRP ENROLLMENT BY STATE, FY 2011, CUMULATIVE 1/ ------CREP ONLY------

NUMBER OF NUMBER OF ANNUAL RENTAL PAYMENTS 3/ STATE 2/ CONTRACTS FARMS ACRES ($1,000) ($/ACRE) U.S. 69,768 45,927 1,220,523 158,369 129.76 ALABAMA 0 0 0 0 . ALASKA 0 0 0 0 . ARKANSAS 236 152 6,964 707 101.49 CALIFORNIA 47 45 4,287 500 116.62 COLORADO 146 98 21,912 2,406 109.82 CONNECTICUT 0 0 0 0 . DELAWARE 513 294 5,474 645 117.82 FLORIDA 0 0 0 0 . GEORGIA 0 0 0 0 . IDAHO 157 105 17,227 2,288 132.84 ILLINOIS 6,653 4,780 126,255 20,385 161.46 INDIANA 836 605 6,088 1,251 205.56 IOWA 68 61 1,928 437 226.53 KANSAS 58 45 10,768 1,239 115.05 KENTUCKY 3,128 1,589 100,767 18,396 182.56 LOUISIANA 725 528 49,386 3,909 79.16 MAINE 0 0 0 0 . MARYLAND 5,505 3,232 69,351 9,957 143.58 MASSACHUSETTS 0 0 0 0 . MICHIGAN 6,366 3,366 70,828 9,070 128.06 MINNESOTA 3,011 2,435 90,202 10,346 114.70 MISSISSIPPI 0 0 0 0 . MISSOURI 1,106 804 38,469 3,712 96.50 MONTANA 126 50 10,511 943 89.71 NEBRASKA 3,051 2,223 71,483 8,012 112.09 NEW HAMPSHIRE 0 0 0 0 . NEW JERSEY 154 111 628 85 135.11 NEW MEXICO 0 0 0 0 . NEW YORK 1,009 723 12,665 1,896 149.74 NORTH CAROLINA 2,374 1,567 33,137 3,643 109.95 NORTH DAKOTA 87 66 1,704 62 36.41 OHIO 11,898 7,742 107,899 20,262 187.78 OKLAHOMA 31 31 296 19 63.33 OREGON 1,475 946 37,732 3,206 84.96 PENNSYLVANIA 11,115 7,013 204,234 21,798 106.73 PUERTO RICO 0 0 0 0 . SOUTH CAROLINA 0 0 0 0 . SOUTH DAKOTA 341 231 32,431 3,316 102.24 TENNESSEE 0 0 0 0 . TEXAS 0 0 0 0 . UTAH 0 0 0 0 . VERMONT 322 233 2,402 255 106.38 VIRGINIA 3,782 3,020 27,994 2,211 79.00 WASHINGTON 880 714 12,375 2,155 174.14 WEST VIRGINIA 365 303 4,728 368 77.90 WISCONSIN 4,196 2,808 40,250 4,879 121.22 WYOMING 0 0 0 0 . NOT REPORTED 7 7 147 8 53.31

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011. 2/ State in which land is located. 3/ Approximates FY 2012 payments, before adjustments for haying/grazing, non-compliance, terminations, part-year contracts. Includes annual incentive and maintenance allowance payments, but not one-time up- front signing and practice incentive payments.

-23- CRP ENROLLMENT BY STATE, FY 2011, CUMULATIVE 1/ ------CONTINUOUS NON-CREP 2/------

NUMBER OF NUMBER OF ANNUAL RENTAL PAYMENTS 4/ STATE 3/ CONTRACTS FARMS ACRES ($1,000) ($/ACRE) U.S. 321,078 191,943 3,419,164 316,754 92.64 ALABAMA 1,610 1,223 48,719 2,455 50.40 ALASKA 11 8 606 41 67.27 ARKANSAS 3,587 2,081 118,076 8,155 69.07 CALIFORNIA 125 107 13,462 821 60.96 COLORADO 1,138 659 25,408 1,030 40.54 CONNECTICUT 6 3 58 6 107.37 DELAWARE 96 83 367 29 80.29 FLORIDA 35 28 876 46 52.49 GEORGIA 2,639 2,004 86,397 5,011 58.00 IDAHO 733 554 31,680 1,480 46.73 ILLINOIS 50,694 30,419 328,766 46,670 141.96 INDIANA 29,566 17,011 114,281 15,831 138.53 IOWA 69,493 38,453 523,830 83,185 158.80 KANSAS 13,824 8,430 115,575 6,511 56.34 KENTUCKY 8,916 4,873 64,115 6,824 106.43 LOUISIANA 1,505 1,031 75,614 6,430 85.04 MAINE 196 157 2,448 167 68.36 MARYLAND 477 356 2,242 213 95.10 MASSACHUSETTS 4 4 15 3 172.53 MICHIGAN 4,057 2,630 22,508 2,245 99.75 MINNESOTA 32,248 19,389 316,411 29,529 93.32 MISSISSIPPI 8,142 5,468 202,848 13,122 64.69 MISSOURI 12,482 7,821 132,359 12,476 94.26 MONTANA 1,165 585 120,153 3,507 29.19 NEBRASKA 10,016 6,525 96,471 8,076 83.72 NEW HAMPSHIRE 5 5 58 3 55.46 NEW JERSEY 48 42 372 21 57.02 NEW MEXICO 70 41 5,280 223 42.32 NEW YORK 728 559 9,092 481 52.92 NORTH CAROLINA 2,554 1,627 23,195 1,589 68.51 NORTH DAKOTA 9,798 5,744 255,965 12,689 49.57 OHIO 19,190 12,278 63,382 7,070 111.54 OKLAHOMA 345 278 9,244 392 42.36 OREGON 377 247 12,560 763 60.75 PENNSYLVANIA 406 340 947 50 53.26 PUERTO RICO 8 8 1,687 103 61.29 SOUTH CAROLINA 4,087 2,315 45,210 2,294 50.75 SOUTH DAKOTA 17,364 9,633 260,192 18,971 72.91 TENNESSEE 2,401 1,612 27,702 2,413 87.11 TEXAS 1,685 1,372 95,087 3,914 41.17 UTAH 31 24 292 14 46.65 VERMONT 43 40 288 16 55.26 VIRGINIA 605 484 4,153 223 53.68 WASHINGTON 3,379 1,656 125,240 8,434 67.35 WEST VIRGINIA 37 31 232 11 48.02 WISCONSIN 4,950 3,538 28,714 2,893 100.75 WYOMING 199 164 6,936 313 45.19 NOT REPORTED 3 3 51 4 81.86

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011. 2/ Farmable Wetland enrollment not included. 3/ State in which land is located. 4/ Approximates FY 2012 payments, before adjustments for haying/grazing, non-compliance, terminations, part-year contracts. Includes annual incentive and maintenance allowance payments, but not one-time up- front signing and practice incentive payments.

-24- CRP ENROLLMENT BY STATE, FY 2011, CUMULATIVE 1/ ------FARMABLE WETLAND PROGRAM------

NUMBER OF NUMBER OF ANNUAL RENTAL PAYMENTS 3/ STATE 2/ CONTRACTS FARMS ACRES ($1,000) ($/ACRE) U.S. 13,825 10,876 253,797 28,782 113.40 ALABAMA 4 4 18 1 33.47 ALASKA 0 0 0 0 . ARKANSAS 0 0 0 0 . CALIFORNIA 0 0 0 0 . COLORADO 1 0 157 8 52.45 CONNECTICUT 0 0 0 0 . DELAWARE 0 0 0 0 . FLORIDA 0 0 0 0 . GEORGIA 0 0 0 0 . IDAHO 1 1 6 0 78.55 ILLINOIS 44 43 553 101 182.50 INDIANA 101 94 998 138 138.29 IOWA 4,962 3,958 77,294 12,958 167.64 KANSAS 100 92 1,635 84 51.22 KENTUCKY 0 0 0 0 . LOUISIANA 35 26 2,795 260 93.12 MAINE 0 0 0 0 . MARYLAND 1 1 5 0 97.00 MASSACHUSETTS 0 0 0 0 . MICHIGAN 9 9 74 8 107.96 MINNESOTA 3,150 2,677 43,264 4,633 107.08 MISSISSIPPI 41 33 5,262 475 90.24 MISSOURI 4 3 215 23 108.73 MONTANA 14 6 140 5 34.82 NEBRASKA 470 408 4,118 347 84.19 NEW HAMPSHIRE 0 0 0 0 . NEW JERSEY 0 0 0 0 . NEW MEXICO 0 0 0 0 . NEW YORK 0 0 0 0 . NORTH CAROLINA 0 0 0 0 . NORTH DAKOTA 1,457 1,013 48,190 3,478 72.18 OHIO 36 35 244 33 134.63 OKLAHOMA 2 2 30 1 44.68 OREGON 0 0 0 0 . PENNSYLVANIA 0 0 0 0 . PUERTO RICO 0 0 0 0 . SOUTH CAROLINA 0 0 0 0 . SOUTH DAKOTA 3,385 2,463 68,745 6,219 90.47 TENNESSEE 0 0 0 0 . TEXAS 0 0 0 0 . UTAH 0 0 0 0 . VERMONT 0 0 0 0 . VIRGINIA 0 0 0 0 . WASHINGTON 0 0 0 0 . WEST VIRGINIA 0 0 0 0 . WISCONSIN 8 8 57 9 158.66 WYOMING 0 0 0 0 . NOT REPORTED 0 0 0 0 .

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011. 2/ State in which land is located. 3/ Approximates FY 2011 payments, before adjustments for haying/grazing, non-compliance, terminations, part-year contracts. Includes annual incentive and maintenance allowance payments, but not one-time up- front signing and practice incentive payments.

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CONSERVATION PRACTICES INSTALLED ON CRP ACREAGE CUMULATIVE ACRES, ALL SIGNUP TYPES, FY 2011 1/

CONTRACT AVERAGES______PRACTICE ACRES NUMBER ACRES RENTAL COST-SHARE ($/A) ($/A) CP1 NEW INTROD. GRASSES AND LEGUMES 2,411,190 50,042 48.2 57.68 40.33 CP2 NEW NATIVE GRASSES 6,145,401 85,776 71.6 48.77 56.36 CP3A NEW HARDWOOD TREES 460,245 19,054 24.2 63.92 119.77 CP3A NEW LONGLEAF PINES 203,771 6,413 31.8 45.70 121.51 CP3 NEW SOFTWOOD TREES (NOT LONGLEAF) 293,330 9,577 30.6 45.57 65.78 CP4 PERMANENT WILDLIFE HABITAT 2,326,878 45,862 50.7 52.80 44.40 CP5 FIELD WINDBREAKS 96,900 18,991 5.1 73.70 547.97 CP6 DIVERSIONS 315 35 9.0 57.58 115.15 CP7 EROSION CONTROL STRUCTURES 130 53 2.4 64.69 467.52 CP8 GRASS WATERWAYS 139,778 68,312 2.0 144.23 1937.55 CP9 SHALLOW WATER AREAS FOR WILDLIFE 40,356 6,824 5.9 109.06 676.31 CP10 EXISTING GRASSES AND LEGUMES 3/ 11,158,300 136,017 82.0 42.01 2.68 CP11 EXISTING TREES 906,578 25,504 35.5 44.72 9.30 CP12 WILDLIFE FOOD PLOTS 75,549 42,478 1.8 60.37 0.00 CP15 CONTOUR GRASS STRIPS 67,161 5,095 13.2 93.59 41.39 CP16 SHELTERBELTS 38,117 13,701 2.8 58.99 723.92 CP17 LIVING SNOW FENCES 6,314 1,288 4.9 69.99 296.95 CP18 SALINITY REDUCING VEGETATION 235,872 5,677 41.5 39.55 15.57 CP21 FILTER STRIPS (GRASS) 1,013,111 145,038 7.0 131.68 73.78 CP22 RIPARIAN BUFFERS (TREES) 880,985 59,073 14.9 87.41 288.80 CP23 WETLAND RESTORATION 1,251,860 21,403 58.5 50.25 35.94 CP23 WETLAND REST. (FLOODPLAIN) 217,009 6,064 35.8 126.87 118.65 CP23A WETLAND REST. (NON-FLOODPLAIN) 142,649 3,579 39.9 105.15 97.46 CP24 CROSS WIND TRAP STRIPS 401 50 8.0 42.44 109.03 CP25 RARE AND DECLINING HABITAT 1,503,410 36,745 40.9 57.40 103.22 CP26 SEDIMENT RETENTION 44 20 2.2 135.33 3564.46 CP27 FARMABLE WETLAND PILOT (WETLAND) 73,454 13,993 5.2 117.25 133.76 CP28 FARMABLE WETLAND PILOT (UPLAND) 186,242 14,417 12.9 114.10 63.37 CP29 WILDLIFE HABITAT BUFFER (MARG PAST) 118,354 5,394 21.9 144.38 207.15 CP30 WETLAND BUFFER (MARG PAST) 37,199 2,436 15.3 69.22 125.09 CP31 BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD 75,952 1,881 40.4 97.39 109.75 CP32 EXPIRED HARDWOOD TREES 8,563 353 24.3 64.30 9.90 CP33 UPLAND BIRD BUFFERS 240,756 28,196 8.5 94.50 95.85 CP36 LONGLEAF PINE INITIATIVE 104,238 3,184 32.7 56.24 178.79 CP37 DUCK NESTING HABITAT INITIATIVE 163,388 2,317 70.5 81.79 34.92 CP38 STATE ACRES FOR WILDLIFE ENHANCEMENT 481,408 11,991 40.1 74.95 84.99 CS39 FWP—CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS 33 10 3.3 199.65 839.01 CP40 FWP--AQUACULTURE WETLANDS 10,973 107 102.5 92.17 170.18 CP41 FWP--FLOODED PRAIRIE WETLANDS 8,079 443 18.2 85.71 17.04 ALL PRACTICES 31,124,371 753,130 41.3 55.17 58.12

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011. 2/ Includes both introduced and native grasses and legumes. 3/ Includes both softwood and hardwood trees. 4/ Includes both flood-plain and non-floodplain wetlands enrolled prior to 2003.

Note: Cost-share data are estimates (not actuals), and represent 50% of the authorized installation costs. CP10, CP11, and CP12 are not eligible for cost-share, except under certain circumstances.

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CONSERVATION PRACTICES INSTALLED ON CRP ACREAGE by PROGRAM CATEGORY--CUMULATIVE ACRES, FY 2011 1/

GENERAL CONTIN. CONTIN. FARMABLE PRACTICE SIGN-UP CREP NON-CREP WETLAND TOTAL CP1 NEW INTROD. GRASSES AND LEGUMES 2,253,335 152,866 4,989 0 2,411,190 CP2 NEW NATIVE GRASSES 5,906,318 229,624 9,459 0 6,145,401 CP3 NEW SOFTWOOD TREES (NOT LONGLEAF) 291,685 1,429 216 0 293,330 CP3A NEW LONGLEAF PINES 203,771 0 0 0 203,771 CP3A NEW HARDWOOD TREES 443,704 14,325 2,216 0 460,245 CP4D PERMANENT WILDLIFE HABITAT 2,220,518 97,885 741 0 2,319,144 CP4B WILDLIFE HABITAT CORRIDORS 7,449 152 133 0 7,734 CP5 FIELD WINDBREAKS 121 5,026 91,753 0 96,900 CP6 DIVERSIONS 315 0 0 0 315 CP7 EROSION CONTROL STRUCTURES 130 0 0 0 130 CP8 GRASS WATERWAYS 14 818 138,946 0 139,778 CP9 SHALLOW WATER AREAS FOR WILDLIFE 18 3,105 37,234 0 40,356 CP10 EXISTING GRASSES AND LEGUMES 3/ 11,126,061 20,112 12,127 0 11,158,300 CP11 EXISTING TREES 4/ 905,891 657 30 0 906,578 CP12 WILDLIFE FOOD PLOTS 72,960 2,587 2 0 75,549 CP15 CONTOUR GRASS STRIPS 0 376 66,785 0 67,161 CP16 SHELTERBELTS 178 419 37,520 0 38,117 CP17 LIVING SNOW FENCES 0 0 6,314 0 6,314 CP18 SALINITY REDUCING VEGETATION 0 52 235,820 0 235,872 CP21 FILTER STRIPS (GRASS) 0 184,816 828,294 0 1,013,111 CP22 RIPARIAN BUFFERS 0 216,302 664,683 0 880,985 CP23 WETLAND RESTORATION 1,165,053 86,807 0 0 1,251,860 CP23 WETLAND REST. (FLOODPLAIN) 0 17,265 199,744 0 217,009 CP23A WETLAND REST. (NON-FLOODPLAIN) 0 27,605 115,044 0 142,649 CP24 CROSS WIND TRAP STRIPS 0 0 401 0 401 CP25 RARE AND DECLINING HABITAT 1,449,291 54,119 0 0 1,503,410 CP26 SEDIMENT RETENTION 0 44 0 0 44 CP27 FARMABLE WETLAND (WETLAND) 0 0 0 73,454 73,454 CP28 FARMABLE WETLAND (UPLAND) 5/ 0 0 0 167,086 167,086 CP29 WILDLIFE HABITAT BUFFER (MARG PAST) 0 87,413 30,941 0 118,354 CP30 WETLAND BUFFER (MARG PAST) 0 1,804 35,396 0 37,199 CP31 BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD TREES 0 13,947 62,005 0 75,952 CP32 HARDWOOD TREES (PREVIOUS EXPIRED) 8,563 0 0 0 8,563 CP33 UPLAND BIRD HABITAT BUFFER 0 5,482 235,274 0 240,756 CP34 FLOOD CONTROL STRUCTURE 0 71 0 0 71 CP36 LONGLEAF PINE 0 49 104,190 0 104,238 CP37 DUCK NESTING HABITAT 0 27,969 135,419 0 163,388 CP38 STATE ACRES FOR WILDLIFE ENHANCEMENT 0 0 481,408 0 481,408 CP39 FWP--CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS 0 0 0 153 153 CP40 FWP--AQUACULTURE WETLANDS 0 0 0 10,973 10,973 CP41 FWP--FLOODED PRAIRIE WETLANDS 0 0 0 27,115 27,115 ======26,230,886 1,220,523 3,416,164 253,797 31,124,371

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011. 2/ Includes both introduced and native grasses and legumes. 3/ Includes both softwood and hardwood trees. 4/ Includes both floodplain and non-floodplain wetlands prior to 2003. 5/ Includes non-wetland portions of CP27, CP39, CP40, and CP41 (if any).

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CONSERVATION PRACTICES INSTALLED ON CRP ACREAGE CUMULATIVE ACRES, FY 2011 1/

STATE NEW GRASS PLANTINGS NEW TREE PLANTINGS WILDLIFE WILDLIFE FIELD INTROD. NATIVE SOFTWOODS LONGLEAF HARDWOODS HABITAT CORRIDORS WINDBREAKS (CP1) (CP2) (CP3) PINE (CP3A) (CP4D) 3/ (CP4B) (CP5) (CP3A) 2/ ALABAMA 2,327 2,603 65,722 44,692 15,758 7,414 488 0 ALASKA 2,156 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ARKANSAS 2,426 3,943 5,385 0 33,284 1,887 676 0 CALIFORNIA 5,290 1,272 5 0 57 721 0 0 COLORADO 14,688 508,795 73 0 17 511,414 162 1,441 CONNECTICUT 60 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 DELAWARE 25 23 0 0 3,379 1,228 0 0 FLORIDA 78 138 3,420 11,140 811 2,072 0 0 GEORGIA 26 184 17,167 116,968 6,812 4,339 95 0 HAWAII 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 IDAHO 81,662 43,105 4,491 0 50 104,618 31 544 ILLINOIS 159,330 51,951 910 0 50,069 119,996 277 2,750 INDIANA 30,081 26,910 428 0 17,886 11,838 394 2,348 IOWA 168,530 130,704 382 0 15,145 195,469 564 6,802 KANSAS 11,117 765,410 89 0 550 169,536 503 1,993 KENTUCKY 61,501 37,521 206 0 5,752 408 100 1 LOUISIANA 179 3,024 16,747 261 116,639 33,556 7 0 MAINE 1,456 17 98 0 1 321 0 0 MARYLAND 10,986 2,697 528 0 597 1,566 8 0 MASSACHUSETTS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MICHIGAN 27,278 26,070 3,078 0 3,205 16,608 276 2,739 MINNESOTA 185,335 102,094 6,842 0 25,245 260,320 386 9,754 MISSISSIPPI 2,333 972 108,681 321 84,996 6,277 72 0 MISSOURI 292,664 177,994 365 0 15,648 5,594 118 112 MONTANA 509,335 748,783 139 0 50 28,043 149 255 NEBRASKA 19,070 363,771 442 0 678 40,686 27 33,173 NEW HAMPSHIRE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NEW JERSEY 881 189 51 0 49 6 0 10 NEW MEXICO 1,437 147,181 0 0 0 0 0 0 NEW YORK 6,728 842 386 0 671 508 28 13 NORTH CAROLINA 1,181 1,030 7,562 11,087 3,576 1,482 64 26 NORTH DAKOTA 255,824 58,805 56 0 318 420,687 5 5,535 OHIO 19,641 62,430 1,230 0 7,022 38,866 205 3,599 OKLAHOMA 5,294 322,960 52 0 300 2,369 3 45 OREGON 109,608 89,773 1,692 0 61 10,507 1,173 4 PENNSYLVANIA 115,958 41,165 126 0 1,164 4,589 39 0 PUERTO RICO 0 0 0 0 19 26 0 0 SOUTH CAROLINA 117 93 20,359 19,301 1,723 4,386 0 40 SOUTH DAKOTA 37,371 134,157 139 0 99 80,506 49 25,240 TENNESSEE 18,927 41,368 13,166 0 4,175 7,741 304 0 TEXAS 44,208 1,441,860 2,102 0 40 35,697 1,138 43 UTAH 28,355 21,284 0 0 0 983 0 4 VERMONT 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 VIRGINIA 2,570 1,651 6,155 0 236 437 189 3 WASHINGTON 107,355 739,388 1,072 0 0 166,343 0 8 WEST VIRGINIA 98 22 6 0 10 0 0 0 WISCONSIN 26,600 37,815 3,965 0 44,140 5,935 204 191 WYOMING 41,096 5,372 11 0 0 14,165 0 228 ======2,411,190 6,145,401 293,330 203,771 460,245 2,319,144 7,734 96,900

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011. 2/ Enrolled under general signup. See also CP36. 3/ Plantings meeting multiple seasonal (e.g., nesting cover, winter cover) requirements for wildlife of local or regional concern.

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CONSERVATION PRACTICES INSTALLED ON CRP ACREAGE, CON’T CUMULATIVE ACRES, FY 2011 1/ DIVERSIONS STATE & EROSION SHALLOW CONTOUR CONTROL GRASS WATER FOR EXISTING EXISTING WILDLIFE GRASS SHELTER- STRUCT. WATERWAYS WILDLIFE GRASS TREES FOOD PLOTS STRIPS BELTS (CP6&CP7) (CP8) (CP9) (CP10) (CP11) (CP12) (CP15) (CP16) ALABAMA 0 16 162 74,406 131,686 1,394 41 0 ALASKA 0 0 5 16,275 0 0 0 0 ARKANSAS 2 17 757 15,676 44,669 603 0 0 CALIFORNIA 0 0 182 96,204 310 56 0 0 COLORADO 6 705 19 1,173,683 159 918 0 4,601 CONNECTICUT 0 10 0 11 0 0 0 0 DELAWARE 0 7 340 217 22 13 4 0 FLORIDA 0 0 0 1,047 36,542 144 0 0 GEORGIA 0 45 16 3,112 76,724 1,721 9 0 HAWAII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IDAHO 3 9 27 386,141 2,062 902 51 199 ILLINOIS 22 34,384 5,591 208,075 17,207 6,458 1,476 156 INDIANA 1 20,099 1,305 57,345 9,098 1,150 115 27 IOWA 15 39,351 12,741 388,524 9,322 5,157 16,305 2,396 KANSAS 9 10,166 1,126 957,178 760 5,827 5,046 886 KENTUCKY 1 4,443 2,768 68,504 1,743 1,272 70 0 LOUISIANA 7 12 818 5,496 36,132 1,692 0 0 MAINE 0 51 0 12,982 608 1 0 0 MARYLAND 0 249 1,200 2,127 434 63 0 0 MASSACHUSETTS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MICHIGAN 3 908 2,450 62,342 5,597 1,656 11 78 MINNESOTA 0 5,126 398 222,469 17,356 4,837 1,288 4,361 MISSISSIPPI 1 60 653 76,384 341,245 4,169 28 0 MISSOURI 296 2,336 2,605 634,052 10,206 4,152 1,408 59 MONTANA 0 97 85 1,247,003 815 3,424 0 255 NEBRASKA 0 1,973 254 355,354 2,098 2,489 547 2,531 NEW HAMPSHIRE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NEW JERSEY 0 129 3 172 22 7 0 0 NEW MEXICO 0 0 0 299,415 50 24 0 0 NEW YORK 1 79 3 24,314 988 64 7 0 NORTH CAROLINA 0 318 1,251 7,867 29,324 59 1 13 NORTH DAKOTA 1 108 1 991,262 1,235 4,511 0 5,563 OHIO 0 11,442 745 65,524 5,002 806 15 117 OKLAHOMA 74 275 89 487,506 315 1,542 2 37 OREGON 0 29 0 282,830 1,230 191 0 2 PENNSYLVANIA 0 600 58 24,309 376 1,749 130 0 PUERTO RICO 0 0 0 188 121 0 0 0 SOUTH CAROLINA 0 66 1,344 4,913 60,871 378 0 0 SOUTH DAKOTA 0 1,377 162 264,943 1,119 8,474 44 16,718 TENNESSEE 2 236 141 70,440 18,329 490 72 0 TEXAS 0 2,490 140 1,819,816 5,657 5,246 171 11 UTAH 0 14 0 116,561 0 45 0 0 VERMONT 0 16 0 94 0 0 0 0 VIRGINIA 0 64 80 8,304 10,690 36 4 0 WASHINGTON 0 418 51 297,981 1,551 1,051 39,301 9 WEST VIRGINIA 0 0 0 481 4 0 0 0 WISCONSIN 2 2,047 2,783 170,523 24,879 2,650 1,015 26 WYOMING 0 4 0 156,252 20 123 0 72 ======444 139,778 40,356 11,158,300 906,578 75,549 67,161 38,117

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011.

-29- CONSERVATION PRACTICES INSTALLED ON CRP ACREAGE, CON’T CUMULATIVE ACRES, FY 2011 1/ WETLAND RESTORATION STATE SALINITY RIPARIAN (CP23) 2/ FLOODPLAIN NON- CROSS LIVING REDUCING FILTER- BUFFERS (CP23) 3/ FLOODPLAIN WIND TRAP SNOW FENCES VEGETATION STRIPS (CP22) (CP23A) 3/ STRIPS (CP17) (CP18) (CP21) (CP24) ALABAMA 0 0 713 34,023 60 5 0 0 ALASKA 0 0 10 158 0 0 0 0 ARKANSAS 0 0 5,990 61,841 12,899 19,179 6,430 0 CALIFORNIA 0 0 0 11,975 5,108 0 0 0 COLORADO 27 77 305 845 935 0 79 32 CONNECTICUT 0 0 14 34 0 0 0 0 DELAWARE 0 0 1,108 114 255 81 0 0 FLORIDA 0 0 0 64 0 0 0 0 GEORGIA 0 0 438 1,461 455 13 0 0 HAWAII 0 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 IDAHO 63 0 1,151 6,885 1,247 0 0 0 ILLINOIS 58 4 139,878 111,361 41,438 9,473 1,960 0 INDIANA 1 1 59,109 5,907 4,945 1,538 2,005 0 IOWA 607 4 232,224 65,925 12,293 79,740 6,029 4 KANSAS 67 913 31,469 3,850 3,637 2,911 2,771 146 KENTUCKY 0 0 30,903 25,182 35 96 0 0 LOUISIANA 0 0 628 5,451 20,983 34,561 13,871 0 MAINE 0 0 71 161 0 0 0 0 MARYLAND 0 0 37,419 16,645 1,846 763 71 0 MASSACHUSETTS 0 0 10 5 0 0 0 0 MICHIGAN 3 0 45,806 3,441 10,520 2,034 8,095 0 MINNESOTA 4,065 7,148 157,565 47,567 276,591 21,932 36,025 5 MISSISSIPPI 0 0 8,024 168,389 10,451 3,588 720 0 MISSOURI 0 0 40,099 29,626 3,482 9,994 373 0 MONTANA 52 99,782 225 2,661 3,816 93 0 0 NEBRASKA 127 946 20,252 3,237 10,137 1,459 854 0 NEW HAMPSHIRE 0 0 45 13 0 0 0 0 NEW JERSEY 0 0 370 230 1 0 0 0 NEW MEXICO 0 0 0 5,280 0 0 0 0 NEW YORK 0 0 478 13,414 46 12 31 0 NORTH CAROLINA 0 0 4,394 31,476 1,112 1,104 0 0 NORTH DAKOTA 608 109,290 9,816 593 585,452 1,264 15,685 10 OHIO 3 0 75,697 7,108 3,217 2,704 4,545 0 OKLAHOMA 0 2,235 766 1,749 564 137 1,479 0 OREGON 0 0 2,423 36,721 298 73 0 0 PENNSYLVANIA 0 0 1,844 25,389 304 677 0 0 PUERTO RICO 0 0 0 717 0 0 0 0 SOUTH CAROLINA 0 0 4,294 26,523 254 0 0 0 SOUTH DAKOTA 592 14,947 10,132 5,856 220,163 21,465 40,961 11 TENNESSEE 0 0 9,389 6,440 569 140 0 0 TEXAS 0 501 1,398 34,352 8,196 577 352 167 UTAH 0 0 39 209 0 0 0 0 VERMONT 0 0 231 2,470 0 0 0 0 VIRGINIA 0 0 4,870 24,760 193 36 0 0 WASHINGTON 0 24 47,231 23,635 3,035 30 5 26 WEST VIRGINIA 0 0 421 4,863 0 0 0 0 WISCONSIN 37 0 25,849 16,404 7,319 1,328 308 0 WYOMING 3 0 9 5,794 0 0 0 0 ======6,314 235,872 1,013,111 880,985 1,251,860 217,009 142,649 401

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011. 2/ Acres enrolled under general sign-up and CREP through 2003. 3/ Acres enrolled under continuous/CREP sign-up after 2003.

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CONSERVATION PRACTICES INSTALLED ON CRP ACREAGE, CON’T CUMULATIVE ACRES, FY 2011 1/

RARE AND FARMABLE WETLAND MARGINAL PASTURE UPLAND STATE DECLINING PROGRAM BUFFERS BOTTOMLAND EXPIRED BIRD HABITAT WETLAND BUFFER WILDLIFE WETLAND HARDWOOD HARDWOOD HABITAT (CP25) (CP27) (CP28) (CP29) (CP30) TREES TREES BUFFERS (CP31) (CP32) (CP33) ALABAMA 630 0 0 63 0 859 0 1,202 ALASKA 0 0 0 0 433 0 0 0 ARKANSAS 0 0 0 472 2,265 12,628 393 5,607 CALIFORNIA 0 0 0 578 0 0 0 0 COLORADO 1,494 33 123 189 19 0 0 219 CONNECTICUT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DELAWARE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FLORIDA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GEORGIA 0 0 0 3 0 25 0 2,228 HAWAII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IDAHO 79 4 2 244 178 0 0 0 ILLINOIS 2,322 198 358 244 24 3,261 637 57,127 INDIANA 2,121 352 655 79 51 3,712 575 13,265 IOWA 119,769 23,170 55,942 9,961 2,300 2,406 1,550 25,056 KANSAS 684,477 635 1,181 19 0 219 0 39,521 KENTUCKY 28,210 0 0 73,053 5 294 234 7,921 LOUISIANA 0 0 0 0 0 32,910 922 401 MAINE 0 0 0 1 12 0 0 0 MARYLAND 311 1 4 816 6 0 0 718 MASSACHUSETTS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MICHIGAN 216 23 51 5 278 11 6 813 MINNESOTA 145,498 13,316 30,373 873 5,000 228 1,862 445 MISSISSIPPI 0 0 0 23 24 14,562 775 2,238 MISSOURI 72,262 4 5 1,210 2,038 1,070 546 33,884 MONTANA 190,709 50 90 98 0 0 0 0 NEBRASKA 174,091 1,657 2,581 1,245 228 9 0 5,866 NEW HAMPSHIRE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NEW JERSEY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NEW MEXICO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NEW YORK 0 0 0 2,427 940 2 0 0 NORTH CAROLINA 0 0 0 54 0 28 0 8,607 NORTH DAKOTA 9,430 11,313 27,407 0 0 0 0 0 OHIO 6,992 77 180 2,866 100 57 39 15,540 OKLAHOMA 27,319 9 22 6 9 416 80 1,054 OREGON 1,792 0 0 11,356 382 0 0 0 PENNSYLVANIA 0 0 0 1,193 437 2 0 0 PUERTO RICO 0 0 0 961 0 0 0 0 SOUTH CAROLINA 0 0 0 47 86 0 0 5,681 SOUTH DAKOTA 19,007 22,589 48,078 4,542 22,316 0 0 1,501 TENNESSEE 0 0 0 9 0 2,871 1 5,121 TEXAS 52 0 0 2,157 2 381 0 4,853 UTAH 0 0 0 26 0 0 0 0 VERMONT 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 VIRGINIA 0 0 0 576 20 0 0 1,576 WASHINGTON 1,166 0 0 884 13 0 0 0 WEST VIRGINIA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WISCONSIN 15,462 22 35 1,228 30 0 944 310 WYOMING 0 0 0 845 0 0 0 0 ======1,503,410 73,454 167,086 118,354 37,199 75,952 8,563 240,756

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011.

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CONSERVATION PRACTICES INSTALLED ON CRP ACREAGE, CON’T CUMULATIVE ACRES, FY 2011 1/

LONGLEAF DUCK NESTING STATE ACRES FLOODED STATE PINE HABITAT FOR WILDLIFE CONSTRUCTED AQUACULTURE PRAIRIE TOTAL INITIATIVE INITIATIVE ENHANCEMENT WETLANDS WETLANDS WETLANDS (CP36) (CP37) (CP38) (CP39) (CP40) (CP41) 1/ ALABAMA 10,140 0 2,187 0 18 0 0 396,611 ALASKA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19,037 ARKANSAS 0 0 11,853 0 539 0 0 249,421 CALIFORNIA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 121,757 COLORADO 0 0 17,915 0 0 0 0 2,238,975 CONNECTICUT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 164 DELAWARE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6,817 FLORIDA 842 0 0 0 0 0 0 56,298 GEORGIA 79,994 0 7,883 0 0 0 0 319,720 HAWAII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 167 IDAHO 0 0 31,127 0 0 0 0 664,873 ILLINOIS 0 0 10,363 0 0 0 0 1,037,361 INDIANA 0 0 12,738 9 0 0 0 286,089 IOWA 0 575 33,190 73 0 125 0 1,662,351 KANSAS 0 0 30,068 4 0 0 0 2,732,085 KENTUCKY 0 0 7,930 0 0 0 0 358,155 LOUISIANA 59 0 215 0 2,795 0 0 327,367 MAINE 0 0 2,136 0 0 0 0 17,918 MARYLAND 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 79,056 MASSACHUSETTS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 MICHIGAN 0 0 4,720 0 0 0 0 228,364 MINNESOTA 0 7,867 32,497 66 0 398 0 1,635,203 MISSISSIPPI 399 0 6,751 0 7,360 0 0 849,496 MISSOURI 11 0 18,274 0 206 0 0 1,360,695 MONTANA 0 28 17,538 0 0 0 0 2,853,576 NEBRASKA 0 0 25,632 0 0 0 0 1,071,415 NEW HAMPSHIRE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58 NEW JERSEY 0 0 454 0 0 0 0 2,574 NEW MEXICO 0 0 823 0 0 0 0 454,210 NEW YORK 0 0 932 0 0 0 0 52,920 NORTH CAROLINA 5,038 0 673 0 54 0 0 117,382 NORTH DAKOTA 0 66,254 44,474 0 0 22,457 0 2,647,964 OHIO 0 0 7,834 2 0 0 0 343,604 OKLAHOMA 0 0 1,451 0 0 0 0 858,156 OREGON 0 0 726 0 0 0 0 550,870 PENNSYLVANIA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 220,110 PUERTO RICO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,032 SOUTH CAROLINA 7,350 0 971 0 0 0 0 158,799 SOUTH DAKOTA 0 88,664 66,860 0 0 4,135 0 1,162,220 TENNESSEE 0 0 4,935 0 0 0 0 204,865 TEXAS 0 0 44,321 0 0 0 0 3,455,929 UTAH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 167,521 VERMONT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,820 VIRGINIA 406 0 144 0 0 0 0 63,000 WASHINGTON 0 0 27,386 0 0 0 0 1,457,962 WEST VIRGINIA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5,905 WISCONSIN 0 0 6,406 0 0 0 0 398,458 WYOMING 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 223,995 ZUNDESIGNATED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 ======104,238 163,388 481,408 153 10,973 27,115 0 31,124,371

1/ Contracts in effect September 30, 2011.

-32- CRP ENROLLMENT BY ERODIBILITY INDEX (EI) CATEGORY CUMULATIVE ACRES ENROLLED AS OF FY 2011

------General Signup------EI>=8 EI>=15 STATE All Continuous EI<8 1/ and <15 and <20 EI>=20

ALABAMA 396,611 49,431 56,016 128,155 71,933 91,076 ALASKA 19,037 606 0 1,083 1,090 16,258 ARIZONA 4 4 0 0 0 0 ARKANSAS 249,421 127,864 51,939 34,351 17,905 17,362 CALIFORNIA 121,757 17,749 16,912 29,746 25,981 31,370 COLORADO 2,238,975 48,743 49,020 1,168,541 722,914 249,757 CONNECTICUT 164 59 49 54 3 0 DELAWARE 6,817 6,018 595 141 57 6 FLORIDA 56,298 906 15,808 27,254 10,578 1,753 GEORGIA 319,720 92,820 122,601 68,161 22,390 13,749 HAWAII 167 167 0 0 0 0 IDAHO 664,873 57,887 166,260 289,773 46,839 104,113 ILLINOIS 1,037,361 466,540 47,887 118,591 142,723 261,620 INDIANA 286,089 123,709 43,564 40,302 29,242 49,272 IOWA 1,662,351 621,790 68,149 75,901 164,035 732,476 KANSAS 2,732,085 146,828 592,567 1,522,604 282,427 187,659 KENTUCKY 358,155 165,354 3,524 10,843 22,630 155,803 LOUISIANA 327,367 129,422 122,938 54,756 6,889 13,362 MAINE 17,918 2,451 1,340 10,631 2,455 1,040 MARYLAND 79,056 73,019 2,603 1,435 1,041 958 MASSACHUSETTS 15 15 0 0 0 0 MICHIGAN 228,364 95,662 94,075 30,107 6,048 2,471 MINNESOTA 1,635,203 457,686 945,522 183,561 19,169 29,265 MISSISSIPPI 849,496 212,848 160,956 86,761 64,076 324,855 MISSOURI 1,360,695 175,076 47,625 112,933 190,233 834,828 MONTANA 2,853,576 131,547 134,445 1,806,227 517,813 263,544 NEBRASKA 1,071,415 174,312 67,246 453,502 235,802 140,553 NEW HAMPSHIRE 58 58 0 0 0 0 NEW JERSEY 2,574 1,196 156 466 502 255 NEW MEXICO 454,210 6,104 1,968 112,879 92,940 240,319 NEW YORK 52,920 22,296 5,483 11,016 8,552 5,573 NORTH CAROLINA 117,382 57,223 13,075 12,442 10,560 24,082 NORTH DAKOTA 2,647,964 323,476 1,247,447 920,157 131,211 25,673 OHIO 343,604 175,027 64,686 56,567 21,388 25,936 OKLAHOMA 858,156 9,779 103,174 463,513 173,093 108,597 OREGON 550,870 51,785 24,126 271,220 138,860 64,878 PENNSYLVANIA 220,110 206,855 155 1,227 2,875 8,997 PUERTO RICO 2,032 1,687 24 0 0 321 RHODE ISLAND * * * * * * SOUTH CAROLINA 158,799 46,482 56,271 34,270 11,032 10,743 SOUTH DAKOTA 1,162,216 403,553 473,566 249,302 27,774 8,021 TENNESSEE 204,865 29,360 5,127 16,852 29,839 123,688 TEXAS 3,455,929 98,071 825,097 1,333,425 568,736 630,601 UTAH 167,521 292 84,875 65,996 10,267 6,089 VERMONT 2,820 2,726 0 49 0 45 VIRGINIA 63,000 32,748 1,530 9,861 9,420 9,441 WASHINGTON 1,457,962 139,075 515,004 455,162 153,967 194,754 WEST VIRGINIA 5,905 5,294 180 163 84 184 WISCONSIN 398,458 70,410 67,804 45,298 34,787 180,159 WYOMING 223,995 6,956 3,166 109,744 54,560 49,568 ======31,124,371 5,068,996 6,304,555 10,425,021 4,084,722 5,241,076

1/ Land with EI<8 includes other environmentally sensitive lands such as wetland restorations and land in conservation priority areas.

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WETLAND PRACTICES IN CRP 1/ CUMULATIVE ACRES ENROLLED AS OF FY 2011

FLOOD- NON- BOTTOMLAND DUCK GENERAL 2/ PLAIN. FLOODPLAIN FARMABLE HARDWOODS NESTING OTHER STATE (CP23) (CP23) (CP23A) WETLAND 3/ (CP31) (CP37) WETLAND 4/ TOTAL ALABAMA 0 5 0 18 859 0 69 951 ALASKA 0 0 0 0 0 0 433 433 ARKANSAS 9,922 19,179 6,430 539 12,628 0 6,785 55,482 CALIFORNIA 777 0 0 0 0 0 142 919 COLORADO 456 0 79 157 0 0 37 728 CONNECTICUT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DELAWARE 255 81 0 0 0 0 192 527 FLORIDA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GEORGIA 416 13 0 0 25 0 14 468 HAWAII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IDAHO 1,066 0 0 6 0 0 188 1,260 ILLINOIS 38,284 9,473 1,960 556 3,261 0 4,311 57,846 INDIANA 3,944 1,538 2,005 1,015 3,712 0 1,316 13,531 IOWA 10,650 79,740 6,029 75,797 2,406 575 10,252 185,450 KANSAS 1,304 2,911 2,771 1,820 219 0 800 9,825 KENTUCKY 11 96 0 0 294 0 1,996 2,398 LOUISIANA 18,318 34,561 13,871 2,795 32,910 0 487 102,943 MAINE 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 12 MARYLAND 1,623 763 71 5 0 0 1,028 3,490 MASSACHUSETTS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MICHIGAN 10,388 2,034 8,095 74 11 0 2,341 22,943 MINNESOTA 232,621 21,932 36,025 43,020 228 7,867 5,208 346,901 MISSISSIPPI 6,131 3,588 720 7,360 14,562 0 393 32,754 MISSOURI 1,597 9,994 373 215 1,070 0 3,397 16,647 MONTANA 2,480 93 0 122 0 28 536 3,258 NEBRASKA 5,113 1,459 854 3,869 9 0 450 11,754 NEW HAMPSHIRE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NEW JERSEY 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 NEW MEXICO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NEW YORK 5 12 31 0 2 0 944 994 NORTH CAROLINA 1,082 1,104 0 54 28 0 588 2,857 NORTH DAKOTA 343,721 1,264 15,685 60,756 0 66,254 459 488,141 OHIO 2,770 2,704 4,545 259 57 0 690 11,025 OKLAHOMA 218 137 1,479 30 416 0 62 2,342 OREGON 88 73 0 0 0 0 382 544 PENNSYLVANIA 291 677 0 0 2 0 466 1,436 PUERTO RICO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SOUTH CAROLINA 151 0 0 0 0 0 405 556 SOUTH DAKOTA 128,153 21,465 40,961 73,608 0 88,664 23,551 376,401 TENNESSEE 336 140 0 0 2,871 0 106 3,453 TEXAS 6,910 577 352 0 381 0 107 8,328 UTAH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 VERMONT 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 VIRGINIA 173 36 0 0 0 0 94 302 WASHINGTON 2,559 30 5 0 0 0 64 2,658 WEST VIRGINIA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WISCONSIN 5,637 1,328 308 57 0 0 1,885 9,214 WYOMING 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ======837,452 217,009 142,649 272,133 75,952 163,388 70,193 1,778,778

1/ Includes wetland and buffer acres. 2/ Includes general signup and CREP before 2003, when CP23 was converted to continuous signup. 3/ CP27, CP28, CP39, CP40, CP41. 4/ CP9, CP30, and CP38 (SAFE) wetland.

-34- CRP ENROLLMENT BY TYPE OF COVER CUMULATIVE ACRES ENROLLED AS OF FY 2011

STATE GRASS TREES MIXED 1/ TOTAL

ALABAMA 100,439 291,652 4,520 396,611 ALASKA 18,927 106 5 19,037 ARIZONA 0 4 0 4 ARKANSAS 61,932 141,961 45,528 249,421 CALIFORNIA 107,438 8,395 5,924 121,757 COLORADO 2,228,449 6,885 3,640 2,238,975 CONNECTICUT 141 23 0 164 DELAWARE 2,650 3,477 690 6,817 FLORIDA 3,356 52,798 144 56,298 GEORGIA 10,968 306,543 2,209 319,720 HAWAII 51 117 0 167 IDAHO 650,349 12,023 2,501 664,873 ILLINOIS 819,649 149,732 67,980 1,037,361 INDIANA 232,646 40,087 13,357 286,089 IOWA 1,325,490 83,212 253,650 1,662,351 KANSAS 2,024,116 7,143 700,827 2,732,085 KENTUCKY 222,436 25,206 110,512 358,155 LOUISIANA 45,318 207,322 74,727 327,367 MAINE 17,101 816 2 17,918 MARYLAND 61,274 12,712 5,071 79,056 MASSACHUSETTS 12 3 0 15 MICHIGAN 185,899 17,022 25,443 228,364 MINNESOTA 1,019,023 101,583 514,597 1,635,203 MISSISSIPPI 156,107 664,023 29,366 849,496 MISSOURI 1,211,760 47,867 101,068 1,360,695 MONTANA 2,651,462 3,349 198,765 2,853,576 NEBRASKA 837,561 41,227 192,626 1,071,415 NEW HAMPSHIRE 50 9 0 58 NEW JERSEY 2,272 287 15 2,574 NEW MEXICO 450,599 3,588 24 454,210 NEW YORK 39,282 11,048 2,590 52,920 NORTH CAROLINA 35,777 77,743 3,861 117,382 NORTH DAKOTA 2,017,336 13,712 616,916 2,647,964 OHIO 299,354 21,854 22,395 343,604 OKLAHOMA 824,322 2,415 31,419 858,156 OREGON 509,569 27,592 13,709 550,870 PENNSYLVANIA 197,449 18,679 3,981 220,110 PUERTO RICO 450 620 961 2,032 RHODE ISLAND 9 19 0 28 SOUTH CAROLINA 29,361 127,415 2,023 158,799 SOUTH DAKOTA 798,409 47,827 315,979 1,162,216 TENNESSEE 158,248 42,856 3,761 204,865 TEXAS 3,407,960 31,250 16,720 3,455,929 UTAH 167,305 145 71 167,521 VERMONT 1,166 1,655 0 2,820 VIRGINIA 27,855 34,223 922 63,000 WASHINGTON 1,433,128 18,612 6,222 1,457,962 WEST VIRGINIA 2,627 3,278 0 5,905 WISCONSIN 279,332 85,173 33,953 398,458 WYOMING 218,811 4,216 968 223,995 ======24,895,224 2,799,501 3,429,645 31,124,371

1/ Includes wetland restorations (CP23, CP23A), rare & declining habitat (CP25, and shallow water area for wildlife (CP9).

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CRP CONTRACT EXPIRATIONS BY YEAR (ACRES) 1/

STATE 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 ALABAMA 55,385 21,062 32,758 28,820 80,752 78,877 35,655 ALASKA 4,274 0 678 6,786 64 990 50 ARKANSAS 14,560 3,326 8,251 14,137 12,255 33,655 15,093 CALIFORNIA 27,128 6,952 2,892 9,009 18,021 23,899 8,190 COLORADO 46,384 26,888 402,768 138,239 346,306 573,045 222,761 CONNECTICUT 130 0 37 13 13 72 10 DELAWARE 415 448 608 152 100 300 289 FLORIDA 13,782 3,548 3,960 6,119 9,509 11,684 6,205 GEORGIA 24,871 7,775 24,406 15,983 23,464 33,679 15,519 HAWAII 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IDAHO 60,837 21,565 45,151 95,806 117,980 165,130 67,202 ILLINOIS 50,516 40,412 32,923 35,350 68,565 111,271 187,241 INDIANA 28,762 17,356 10,822 11,824 22,165 36,456 48,154 IOWA 180,266 140,774 109,724 94,350 72,112 231,219 184,872 KANSAS 175,356 48,734 333,257 247,298 531,670 518,785 213,965 KENTUCKY 44,212 19,790 14,019 38,483 36,894 46,373 35,074 LOUISIANA 10,283 2,664 6,788 7,018 11,862 37,928 23,720 MAINE 2,895 1,233 1,154 3,013 5,587 5,291 433 MARYLAND 3,889 4,286 4,181 2,440 3,225 8,623 9,925 MASSACHUSETTS 19 14 41 0 5 0 0 MICHIGAN 20,935 24,107 12,649 13,106 10,998 18,986 44,520 MINNESOTA 83,939 102,050 71,317 49,475 127,558 291,524 129,916 MISSISSIPPI 78,251 17,509 34,321 36,904 100,901 165,719 65,229 MISSOURI 162,983 49,533 38,481 79,932 195,435 377,417 184,129 MONTANA 259,968 96,537 141,747 280,764 496,678 694,483 365,569 NEBRASKA 123,981 53,827 122,947 100,227 151,338 201,693 96,914 NEW HAMPSHIRE 90 17 0 2 45 0 0 NEW JERSEY 492 114 65 255 312 171 255 NEW MEXICO 28,196 6,039 29,861 94,551 164,809 120,462 9,626 NEW YORK 9,758 7,259 2,745 2,495 2,454 3,690 4,252 NORTH CAROLINA 10,933 5,269 7,378 8,868 12,831 10,731 7,858 NORTH DAKOTA 442,641 151,394 187,779 162,786 385,370 839,992 258,736 OHIO 27,635 13,244 11,854 14,361 13,260 26,691 55,908 OKLAHOMA 96,415 25,753 104,296 75,290 192,383 191,196 75,257 OREGON 10,768 5,005 14,516 15,710 104,602 90,000 56,370 PENNSYLVANIA 23,067 11,740 6,185 4,131 21,114 27,185 13,772 PUERTO RICO 0 295 0 20 0 167 0 SOUTH CAROLINA 18,793 6,352 18,807 18,492 20,517 35,311 14,672 SOUTH DAKOTA 305,479 95,789 179,597 92,520 126,216 225,911 106,623 TENNESSEE 45,222 11,230 10,474 19,071 34,353 28,827 51,571 TEXAS 159,746 103,716 563,947 271,283 683,649 827,982 362,291 UTAH 13,474 10,559 49,993 19,163 17,334 27,512 4,986 VERMONT 66 12 30 55 58 16 0 VIRGINIA 7,671 2,941 2,907 1,847 5,033 5,500 4,711 WASHINGTON 38,277 25,661 72,934 51,404 88,765 275,437 254,020 WEST VIRGINIA 195 68 129 15 182 103 212 WISCONSIN 83,405 69,448 33,615 41,171 44,193 69,584 73,730 WYOMING 12,409 7,636 63,211 39,164 49,378 61,233 5,445 ======2,808,753 1,269,931 2,816,203 2,247,902 4,410,319 6,534,803 3,320,932

1/ Includes general and continuous sign-up acreage. Contracts expire at the end of the fiscal year, September 30.

Note: Data for fiscal years 2007-2010, are lands that were not re-enrolled under new contracts. For fiscal year 2011 and later, data includes lands that could be re-enrolled.

-36- CRP CONTRACT EXPIRATIONS BY YEAR (ACRES) 1/

STATE 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020+ ALABAMA 34,732 28,036 14,031 33,233 15,792 5,135 70,367 ALASKA 459 103 0 14,732 0 2,146 494 ARKANSAS 11,166 17,674 12,051 16,511 26,100 14,551 90,365 CALIFORNIA 1,784 4,922 3,994 40,096 1,966 432 18,453 COLORADO 93,768 94,817 87,811 29,945 47,486 27,445 715,589 CONNECTICUT 10 0 0 20 34 3 1 DELAWARE 234 1,750 1,681 534 414 267 1,247 FLORIDA 6,975 5,070 693 5,882 2,514 402 7,363 GEORGIA 63,515 42,424 3,531 14,840 22,945 3,618 96,184 HAWAII 0 0 19 0 0 0 149 IDAHO 43,197 23,269 14,242 74,092 9,618 10,378 139,763 ILLINOIS 97,584 118,038 84,445 99,722 69,608 45,653 155,232 INDIANA 19,378 27,099 19,255 31,954 16,105 12,978 52,545 IOWA 92,313 113,166 97,618 223,866 163,437 132,780 350,968 KANSAS 120,620 113,009 98,203 142,679 108,024 50,492 834,637 KENTUCKY 20,499 25,781 14,784 25,794 37,742 12,919 102,295 LOUISIANA 50,204 28,443 3,381 8,917 32,447 8,184 122,280 MAINE 74 447 61 2,280 123 3 3,619 MARYLAND 6,168 8,950 10,004 13,319 6,424 3,805 8,613 MASSACHUSETTS 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 MICHIGAN 7,645 24,162 38,393 20,462 11,920 7,396 43,881 MINNESOTA 207,508 101,341 90,772 104,025 213,256 102,344 266,958 MISSISSIPPI 45,318 64,708 41,038 127,133 57,009 29,856 152,584 MISSOURI 57,287 78,835 67,323 135,670 48,487 19,729 196,383 MONTANA 249,874 113,745 36,081 415,240 120,973 106,217 254,715 NEBRASKA 72,100 65,169 49,802 70,066 50,759 23,902 289,671 NEW HAMPSHIRE 0 0 8 0 1 0 4 NEW JERSEY 95 72 81 437 136 73 942 NEW MEXICO 6,358 1,738 2,363 122,831 8,362 1,738 15,926 NEW YORK 987 6,134 5,553 11,528 5,021 3,855 9,445 NORTH CAROLINA 12,506 15,551 9,690 8,984 9,218 4,592 25,420 NORTH DAKOTA 147,871 53,333 39,303 361,523 22,594 45,831 493,410 OHIO 13,104 27,749 20,488 42,847 17,179 16,592 109,784 OKLAHOMA 20,101 25,054 27,194 69,783 18,867 9,098 229,222 OREGON 32,978 34,972 29,843 80,530 13,012 10,052 98,511 PENNSYLVANIA 13,944 15,972 9,884 19,286 24,065 27,406 47,482 PUERTO RICO 436 0 0 0 1,409 20 0 SOUTH CAROLINA 19,635 18,753 3,157 16,643 2,719 2,148 25,244 SOUTH DAKOTA 71,153 45,625 57,787 49,656 32,560 47,218 399,470 TENNESSEE 9,432 13,649 9,165 13,363 5,595 3,401 35,508 TEXAS 170,159 140,291 60,475 139,146 103,501 87,593 880,842 UTAH 396 3,327 3,133 3,361 34 0 107,439 VERMONT 54 133 596 207 199 177 1,379 VIRGINIA 2,418 8,297 8,742 10,190 5,760 2,370 9,978 WASHINGTON 140,485 130,586 103,466 10,610 165,281 46,362 242,949 WEST VIRGINIA 42 95 357 764 678 383 3,089 WISCONSIN 26,585 32,145 17,117 46,208 29,752 8,265 50,878 WYOMING 5,007 3,861 932 1,532 2,580 2,315 91,711 ======1,996,189 1,678,295 1,198,551 2,660,442 1,531,711 940,136 6,852,991

1/ Includes general and continuous sign-up acreage. Contracts expire at the end of the fiscal year, September 30.

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Conservation Reserve Program Sign-up Periods and Eligibility Criteria SIGN-UP Type DATES CRITERIA 1/ 1 General March 3-14, 1986 A-B 2 General May 5-16, 1986 A-B 3 General August 4-15, 1986 A-C 4 General February 9-27, 1987 A-D 5 General July 20-31, 1987 A-D 6 General February 1-19, 1988 A-F 7 General July 18-31, 1988 A-F 8 General February 6-24, 1989 A-H 9 General July 17-August 4, 1989 A-H 10 General March 4-15, 1991 A-C, E, G, I-K 11 General July 8-19, 1991 A-C, E, G, I-K 12 General June 15-26, 1992 A-C, E, G, I-K 13 General September 11-22, 1995 E, G, I-K 14 Continuous September 3, 1996 - September 30, 1997 L 15 General March 3-28, 1997 G, K, M-O 16 General October 14 - November 14, 1997 G, K, M-O 17 Continuous October 1, 1997 - September 30, 1998 L, P 18 General October 26, - December 11, 1998 G, K, M-O, Q 19 Continuous October 1, 1998 - September 30, 1999 L, P 20 General January 18 - February 11, 2000 G, K, M-O, Q 21 Continuous October 1, 1999 - April 6, 2000 L, P 22 Continuous April 7 - September 30, 2000 L, P 23 Continuous October 1, 2000 - September 30, 2001 L, P 24 Continuous October 1, 2001 - September 30, 2002 L, P, R 25 Continuous October 1, 2002 - May 5, 2003 L, P, R 26 General May 5, 2003 - June 13, 2003 K, N, Q, W 27 Continuous May 6, 2003 - September 30, 2003 L, P, R 28 Continuous October 1, 2003 - September 30, 2004 L, P, R, S 29 General August 30, 2004 - September 24, 2004 K, N, Q, W 30 Continuous October 1, 2004 - September 30, 2005 L, P, R, S, T, U 31 Continuous October 1, 2005- September 30, 2006 L, P, R, S, T, U 32 REX 2/ April 2006, June 2006 Expiring Contracts 33 General March 22, 2006 - April 28, 2006 K, N, Q, W 35 Continuous October 1, 2006- September 30, 2007 L, P, R, S, T, U 36 Continuous October 1, 2007- September 30, 2008 L, P, R, S, T, U 37 Continuous October 1, 2008 - September 30, 2009 L, P, R, S, T, U, V 38 Continuous October 1, 2009 - September 30, 2010 L, P, R, S, T, U, V 39 General August 2, 2010 - August 27, 2010 K, N, Q, W 40 Continuous October 1, 2010 – September 30, 2011 L, P, R, S, T, U, V 41 General March 14, 2011 – April 15, 2011 K, N, Q, W

1/ See attached eligibility criteria description. 2/ Re-enrollments under new contracts only.

-38- Eligibility Criteria: A Land capability classes 6 - 8 B Land capability classes 2 - 5 with predicted average annual erosion rate greater than 3T C Land capability classes 2 - 5 with predicted average annual erosion rate greater than 2T and with gully erosion D Land with EI > 8 and predicted average annual erosion rate greater than T E Land for filter strips alongside wetlands, streams, or other water bodies F Land for tree planting-eligible when 1/3 of field meets criteria A or Class 2-5 soil with predicted average annual erosion rate greater than 2T G Land having evidence of scour erosion caused by out-of-bank water flows H Wetland as follows:  cropped wetland of at least 6 acres  a field of which 1/3 or more is cropped wetland  a field of 6 to 9 acres on which wetlands are present I Land in designated national conservation priority areas  Chesapeake Bay Region  Great Lakes Region  Long Island Sound Region Land in designated State water quality priority areas  Public wellhead protection area established by EPA  Hydrologic Unit Areas approved by the Secretary  Land located in areas designated as Clean Water Act “319" priority areas J Lands to be established in specified eligible practices, including filter strips, riparian buffers, windbreaks, grass waterways, and salt tolerant grasses Wetland eligibity suspended K Land with an EI > 8, regardless of the predicted annual erosion rate relative to T L Eligible for continuous sign-up beginning with sign-up 14:  Land identified as suitable for field windbreaks, grass waterways, shallow water areas for wildlife, contour grass strips, shelterbelts, living snow fences, salt tolerant vegetation, filter strips, or riparian buffers  Marginal pasture land suitable for riparian buffers devoted to trees.  Land within a wellhead protection area established by EPA M Land classified as highly erodible land (HEL) according to conservation compliance provisions. N Land in designated national conservation priority areas:  Chesapeake Bay Region  Great Lakes Region  Long Island Sound Region  Prairie Pothole Region Land in designated State water, air, or wildlife quality priority areas O Wetlands, including associated acreage, expiring Water Bank lands, and land serving as buffers for non-cropped wetlands P Land suitable for cross wind trap strips Q Land in the Longleaf Pine national conservation priority area R Wetland and buffer acreage according to Farmable Wetland Program provisions S Restoration of flood plain wetland, including bottomland hardwood tree plantings T Establishment of upland bird habitat buffers U Restoration of non-flood plain wetland and playa lakes V Constructed wetlands, aquaculture ponds, and flooded prairie wetlands W Land under CRP contracts that expire during the year of the signup.

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CRP Practices and Payment Provisions 1/ Annual Signing Practice Practice Sign-up Rental Incentive Incentive Type 2/ Pmt. 3/ Pmt. 4/ Pmt. 4/ CP1 Introduced grasses and legumes - new seedings General SRR No No CP2 Native grasses - new seedings General SRR No No CP3 New softwood trees (not longleaf pine) General SRR No No CP3A New hardwood trees General SRR No No CP3A New longleaf pines (see also CP36) General SRR No No CP4 Permanent wildlife habitat General SRR No No CP5 Field windbreaks Continuous SRR+20% Yes Yes CP6 Diversions General SRR No No CP7 Erosion control structures General SRR No No CP8 Grass waterways Continuous SRR+20% Yes Yes CP9 Shallow water areas for wildlife Continuous SRR No Yes CP10 Existing grasses and legumes General SRR No No CP11 Existing trees General SRR No No CP12 Wildlife food plots General SRR No No CP15 Contour grass strips Continuous SRR No Yes CP16 Shelterbelts Continuous SRR Yes Yes CP17 Living snow fences Continuous SRR Yes Yes CP18 Salinity reducing vegetation Continuous SRR No Yes CP21 Filter strips (grass) Continuous SRR+20% Yes Yes CP22 Riparian buffers (trees) Continuous SRR+20% 6/ Yes Yes CP23 Wetland restoration General SRR No No CP23 Wetland restoration - flood plain Continuous SRR+20% 7/ Yes 7/ Yes 7/ CP23A Wetland Restoration - Non-flood plain and playas Continuous SRR+20% 7/ Yes 7/ Yes 7/ CP24 Cross wind trap strips Continuous SRR No Yes CP25 Rare and declining habitats General SRR No No CP27 Farmable wetland (wetland) Continuous SRR+20% Yes Yes CP28 Farmable wetland (upland) Continuous SRR+20% Yes Yes CP29 Wildlife habitat buffer on marginal pasture Continuous SRR+20% 6/ Yes Yes CP30 Wetland buffer on marginal pasture Continuous SRR+20% 6/ Yes Yes CP31 Bottomland hardwood trees Continuous SRR+20% 7/ Yes 7/ Yes 7/ CP32 Hardwood trees ( previously expired contracts) General SRR No No CP33 Upland bird habitat (quail) buffers Continuous SRR Yes Yes CP36 Longleaf pine Continuous SRR Yes Yes CP37 Duck Nesting Habitat (Prairie Pothole area) Continuous SRR+20% 7/ Yes 7/ Yes 7/ CP38 State acres for wildlife enhancement Continuous SRR Yes Yes CP39 Constructed Wetlands Continuous SRR+10% Yes Yes CP40 Aquaculture Wetlands Continuous SRR+10% Yes Yes CP41 Flooded Prairie Wetlands Continuous SRR+10% Yes Yes CP42 Pollinator Habitat 8/ General SRR No No -- Wellhead protection areas Continuous SRR+10% Yes Yes

-40- 1/ Practices enrolled under CREP may be eligible for additional incentives. 2/ General sign-up practices may be enrolled under certain CREP agreements and may be eligible for additional financial incentives. 3/ Soil rental rates (SRR) are soil-specific maximum rental payment rates for predominant soils (up to 3) for the land offered. Beginning with general sign-up 16, producers offering land for general sign-up enrollment requesting rental payments below the maximum receive higher EBI scores. Participants in continuous sign-up receive the maximum allowable rate. Annual incentives of 20% and 10% of annual rental rate are provided as indicated. Practices enrolled under CREP may be eligible for additional incentives. 4/ Signing incentive payments (SIP) implemented in June 2000 are one-time up-front bonus payments of $100-$150 per acre. 5/ Practice incentive payments (PIP) implemented in June 2000 equal 40-percent of practice installation cost. 6/ For marginal pasture, a county-specific flat rate is used instead of the SRR. 7/ Incentives approved March 2008. 8/ Will later be added to continuous as an initiative with incentive payments.

-41- CRP Environmental Benefits Index (EBI)--Maximum Possible Points per Component

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EBI Factor or Subfactor 15 16 18 20 26 29 33 39 41 (1997) (1997) (1998) (1999) (2003) (2004) (2006) (2010) (2011) N1-Wildlife Benefits Cover (N1A) 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 T&E species benefit 15 15 15 15 - - - - - Proximity to water or wetland 10 10 10 10 - - - - - Wildlife priority zone - - - - 30 30 30 30 30 Proximity to protected area 10 10 10 10 - - - - - Contract size 5 5 ------Wildlife enhancements - - 5 5 20 20 20 20 20 Upland to wetland ratio 10 10 10 10 - - - - - Formula (N1A/50)*(sum of other factors) (sum of factors) Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 N2-Water Quality Benefits Water quality area/zone 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 Ground water quality 20 20 20 20 25 25 25 25 25 Surface water quality 40 40 40 40 45 45 45 45 45 Associated wetlands 10 10 10 10 - - - - - Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 N3-Soil Erosion Benefits (Erodibility index) Total 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 N4-Enduring (post-contract) Benefits Total 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 N5-Air Quality Benefits Wind erodibility 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 Wind erosion soils - 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Air quality zone - 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Carbon sequestration - - - - 10 10 10 10 10 Total 25 35 35 35 45 45 45 45 45 N6-Conservation Priority Area Benefits Total 25 25 25 25 - - - - - N7-Cost (N6 after signup 20) Rental payment amount 1/ a=190 a=125 a=125 a=125 a=125 a=125 a=125 a=125 A=125 = a*(1-(Bid amount/b)) b=165 b=165 b=165 b=165 b=185 b=185 b=204 b=220 b=220 Cost-share 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 - - Amount below maximum rent n.a. 15 15 15 15 15 15 25 25 Total 200 150 150 150 150 150 150 150 150 Total EBI Points Environmental components 400 410 410 410 395 395 395 395 395 Environmental+cost components 600 560 560 560 545 545 545 545 545 EBI cut-off for acceptance 259 247 245 246 269 248 242 200 221

1/ a = points for cost (decided by Secretary after signup) b = cutoff for 0 points.

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Additional information on the Conservation Reserve Program environmental benefits is posted at: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=home&subject=ecpa&topic=nra

Farm Service Agency’s conservation programs website: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=home&subject=copr&topic=landing

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