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 |