U.S. General Accounting Office
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP)
Q15. In your opinion, to what extent do USDA farm commodity and crop insurance programs act as incentives to convert native vegetation to cropland?

  Very great extent (percent) Great exent (percent) Moderate extent (percent) Some extent (percent) Little or no extent (percent) Number of respondents
Alabama 0.0 4.5 18.2 13.6 63.6 44
Arkansas 4.0 12.0 8.0 20.0 56.0 25
California 0.0 0.0 21.1 21.1 57.9 19
Colorado 10.5 18.4 15.8 21.1 34.2 38
Florida 0.0 21.4 14.3 7.1 57.1 14
Georgia 6.5 8.7 21.7 15.2 47.8 46
Iowa 38.5 30.8 12.8 9.0 9.0 78
Idaho 5.6 5.6 16.7 11.1 61.1 18
Illinois 11.6 26.1 17.4 18.8 26.1 69
Indiana 13.2 17.0 22.6 15.1 32.1 53
Kansas 14.6 28.1 12.4 21.3 23.6 89
Kentucky 5.2 12.1 15.5 20.7 46.6 58
Louisiana 4.0 12.0 32.0 8.0 44.0 25
Maryland 9.1 0.0 27.3 27.3 36.4 11
Michigan 2.9 5.7 17.1 17.1 57.1 35
Minnesota 22.4 32.8 13.8 15.5 15.5 58
Missouri 1.4 11.4 24.3 15.7 47.1 70
Mississippi 1.7 11.7 18.3 15.0 53.3 60
Montana 11.9 33.3 14.3 21.4 19.0 42
North Carolina 3.8 11.5 15.4 19.2 50.0 52
North Dakota 29.8 27.7 25.5 6.4 10.6 47
Nebraska 28.4 31.3 16.4 14.9 9.0 67
New Mexico 5.6 11.1 27.8 5.6 50.0 18
New York 0.0 2.7 18.9 13.5 64.9 37
Ohio 0.0 15.9 15.9 18.2 50.0 44
Oklahoma 7.1 14.3 16.1 25.0 37.5 56
Oregon 14.3 14.3 7.1 7.1 57.1 14
Pennsylvania 5.7 5.7 11.4 20.0 57.1 35
South Carolina 0.0 4.8 4.8 23.8 66.7 21
South Dakota 56.9 21.6 0.0 11.8 9.8 51
Tennessee 2.0 10.2 8.2 20.4 59.2 49
Texas 9.4 21.1 18.8 14.8 35.9 128
Utah 0.0 0.0 0.0 36.4 63.6 11
Virginia 0.0 2.9 14.7 11.8 70.6 34
Washington 5.0 15.0 5.0 10.0 65.0 20
Wisconsin 18.4 22.4 14.3 10.2 34.7 49
West Virginia 0.0 0.0 19.0 23.8 57.1 21
States with fewer than 15 respondents 3.4 0.0 12.1 13.8 70.7 58
All States 11.5 16.6 15.9 16.1 39.8 1,664