U.S. General Accounting Office
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP)
Q86--1999:. In your county, about how many cases were granted a minimal effect exemption for agricultural purposes in 1999?

  Mean Minimum Maximum Median Number of respondents
Alabama 1.0 1 1 1 1
Arkansas 1.0 1 1 1 1
California . . . . 0
Colorado 1.0 1 1 1 1
Florida . . . . 0
Georgia 1.0 1 1 1 1
Idaho . . . . 0
Illinois 1.8 1 5 1 5
Indiana 2.1 1 4 2 7
Iowa 1.5 1 2 2 8
Kansas 1.3 1 2 1 4
Kentucky . . . . 0
Louisiana 2.0 2 2 2 1
Maryland 1.0 1 1 1 2
Michigan . . . . 0
Minnesota 2.9 1 10 2 16
Mississippi 1.0 1 1 1 1
Missouri 12.4 1 58 1 5
Montana 1.3 1 2 1 3
Nebraska 4.2 1 20 1 17
New Mexico . . . . 0
New York 1.0 1 1 1 1
North Carolina 1.0 1 1 1 2
North Dakota 4.5 1 16 2 11
Ohio 1.3 1 2 1 3
Oklahoma . . . . 0
Oregon . . . . 0
Pennsylvania . . . . 0
South Carolina . . . . 0
South Dakota 4.7 1 20 4 24
Tennessee . . . . 0
Texas 2.7 1 5 2 3
Utah . . . . 0
Virginia 1.7 1 2 2 3
Washington 1.0 1 1 1 1
West Virginia . . . . 0
Wisconsin 1.0 1 1 1 7
States with fewer than 15 respondents 1.3 1 2 1 6
All States 3.2 1 58 1 134