| U.S. General Accounting Office |
| Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
| Q2. In your experience, compared with neighboring counties, how closely does your county monitor HELC provisions? |
| Much more closely (percent) | More closely (percent) | About the same (percent) | Less closely (percent) | Much less closely (percent) | Number of respondents | |
| Alabama | 0.0 | 2.2 | 95.7 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 46 |
| Arkansas | 0.0 | 6.5 | 93.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 31 |
| California | 0.0 | 15.0 | 85.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 20 |
| Colorado | 0.0 | 2.6 | 97.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 38 |
| Florida | 5.9 | 5.9 | 88.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17 |
| Georgia | 0.0 | 3.8 | 94.3 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 53 |
| Iowa | 1.3 | 11.3 | 86.3 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 80 |
| Idaho | 4.2 | 16.7 | 79.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 24 |
| Illinois | 6.8 | 18.9 | 70.3 | 4.1 | 0.0 | 74 |
| Indiana | 0.0 | 8.6 | 87.9 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 58 |
| Kansas | 1.1 | 9.1 | 88.6 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 88 |
| Kentucky | 1.5 | 4.5 | 91.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 67 |
| Louisiana | 8.0 | 0.0 | 92.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 25 |
| Maryland | 9.1 | 0.0 | 81.8 | 0.0 | 9.1 | 11 |
| Michigan | 0.0 | 10.0 | 90.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 40 |
| Minnesota | 1.7 | 3.3 | 93.3 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 60 |
| Missouri | 1.4 | 9.5 | 87.8 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 74 |
| Mississippi | 5.0 | 8.3 | 86.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 60 |
| Montana | 0.0 | 9.5 | 90.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 42 |
| North Carolina | 3.5 | 5.3 | 91.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 57 |
| North Dakota | 0.0 | 4.4 | 93.3 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 45 |
| Nebraska | 0.0 | 18.3 | 80.3 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 71 |
| New Mexico | 0.0 | 20.0 | 80.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 20 |
| New York | 8.6 | 0.0 | 77.1 | 11.4 | 2.9 | 35 |
| Ohio | 0.0 | 5.9 | 90.2 | 0.0 | 3.9 | 51 |
| Oklahoma | 0.0 | 3.3 | 95.0 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 60 |
| Oregon | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17 |
| Pennsylvania | 0.0 | 8.1 | 91.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 37 |
| South Carolina | 4.8 | 0.0 | 95.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 21 |
| South Dakota | 0.0 | 6.0 | 94.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 50 |
| Tennessee | 0.0 | 3.9 | 92.2 | 3.9 | 0.0 | 51 |
| Texas | 3.7 | 8.2 | 85.1 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 134 |
| Utah | 0.0 | 9.1 | 90.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11 |
| Virginia | 0.0 | 10.5 | 89.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 38 |
| Washington | 0.0 | 5.0 | 95.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 20 |
| Wisconsin | 9.8 | 19.6 | 66.7 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 51 |
| West Virginia | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 22 |
| States with fewer than 15 respondents | 5.0 | 1.7 | 91.7 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 60 |
| All States | 2.1 | 7.8 | 88.2 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 1,759 |