OMAHA (DTN) -- Farmers and landowners waiting for their annual Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) rental payments should start seeing those funds hit bank accounts this week or next at the latest.

CRP pays more than $1.85 billion annually to more than 302,000 landowners who have 25.85 million acres enrolled in the program, according to USDA's last monthly report on the program.

Landowners began asking more questions last week about the status of payments after the shutdown ended. State and county staff for the Farm Service Agency (FSA) said FSA just started processing payments on Monday, Dec. 1.

CRP payments are typically issued in mid-October.

USDA's press office did not respond to questions about CRP payments. The department has not provided any official accounting of how payments were expected to flow after the government shutdown ended.

Rental payments nationally for CRP range from a low of $10.12 per acre in Nevada to $258.49 in Maryland. Nationally, the average rental payment is $71.95 an acre, though rental payments can vary widely because of different variations of CRP that have been created throughout the years.

General CRP has 7.76 million acres with an average payment rate of $57.30 an acre.

Continuous CRP has 8.4 million acres with an average payment rate of $150.31 an acre.

Grassland CRP has 9.6 million acres with an average rental rate of $15.73 an acre.

The top 12 states for CRP enrollment make up more than three-quarters of the program's acreage and 70% of rental payments.

-- Colorado, 2.96 million acres, $70.4 million

-- South Dakota, 2.63 million acres, $145.5 million

-- Nebraska, 2.4 million acres, $96 million

-- Texas, 2.2 million acres, $73.6 million

-- Kansas, 2.03 million acres, $78.8 million

-- Iowa, 1.67 million acres, $404.28 million

-- New Mexico, 1.21 million acres, $21.7 million

-- North Dakota, 1.19 million acres, $53 million

-- Minnesota, 964,136 acres, $159.6 million

-- Oregon, 953,514 acres, $34 million

-- Montana, 943,597 acres, $96 million

-- Washington, 926,213 acres, $57.6 million

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