U.S. General Accounting Office
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP)
Q86--1998:. In your county, about how many cases were granted a minimal effect exemption for agricultural purposes in 1998?

  Mean Minimum Maximum Median Number of respondents
Alabama 5.5 1 10 6 2
Arkansas 1.0 1 1 1 1
California . . . . 0
Colorado . . . . 0
Florida 1.0 1 1 1 2
Georgia 3.0 3 3 3 1
Idaho 1.0 1 1 1 1
Illinois 2.2 1 5 1 5
Indiana 2.6 1 6 1 5
Iowa 1.5 1 3 1 8
Kansas 1.3 1 2 1 4
Kentucky . . . . 0
Louisiana . . . . 0
Maryland . . . . 0
Michigan . . . . 0
Minnesota 2.9 1 10 2 10
Mississippi 1.5 1 2 2 2
Missouri 9.0 1 25 1 3
Montana 1.0 1 1 1 2
Nebraska 4.2 1 10 2 13
New Mexico . . . . 0
New York 1.0 1 1 1 2
North Carolina . . . . 0
North Dakota 6.1 2 21 3 8
Ohio 1.0 1 1 1 2
Oklahoma . . . . 0
Oregon . . . . 0
Pennsylvania . . . . 0
South Carolina 1.0 1 1 1 1
South Dakota 4.6 1 20 3 28
Tennessee . . . . 0
Texas 2.3 1 5 1 3
Utah 1.0 1 1 1 1
Virginia 1.0 1 1 1 1
Washington 2.0 2 2 2 1
West Virginia . . . . 0
Wisconsin 1.0 1 1 1 6
States with fewer than 15 respondents 1.3 1 2 1 3
All States 3.3 1 25 2 115