U.S. General Accounting Office |
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
Q23c. In your county, how did the following changes in the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (farm bill) strengthen or weaken monitoring of HELC compliance?: Instituted tenant exemption. |
Significantly strengthened (percent) | Strengthened (percent) | Neither strengthened nor weakened (percent) | Weakened (percent) | Significantly weakend (percent) | Number of respondents | |
Alabama | 0.0 | 13.5 | 62.2 | 16.2 | 8.1 | 37 |
Arkansas | 0.0 | 10.5 | 57.9 | 26.3 | 5.3 | 19 |
California | 0.0 | 0.0 | 84.6 | 15.4 | 0.0 | 13 |
Colorado | 0.0 | 8.0 | 88.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 25 |
Florida | 0.0 | 30.0 | 50.0 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 10 |
Georgia | 0.0 | 17.1 | 70.7 | 12.2 | 0.0 | 41 |
Iowa | 1.4 | 8.5 | 49.3 | 32.4 | 8.5 | 71 |
Idaho | 0.0 | 0.0 | 92.9 | 0.0 | 7.1 | 14 |
Illinois | 1.4 | 10.1 | 52.2 | 31.9 | 4.3 | 69 |
Indiana | 0.0 | 6.7 | 60.0 | 28.9 | 4.4 | 45 |
Kansas | 0.0 | 9.1 | 54.5 | 26.0 | 10.4 | 77 |
Kentucky | 1.7 | 10.3 | 75.9 | 10.3 | 1.7 | 58 |
Louisiana | 0.0 | 11.1 | 66.7 | 16.7 | 5.6 | 18 |
Maryland | 0.0 | 0.0 | 81.8 | 9.1 | 9.1 | 11 |
Michigan | 0.0 | 6.5 | 74.2 | 16.1 | 3.2 | 31 |
Minnesota | 0.0 | 3.9 | 56.9 | 31.4 | 7.8 | 51 |
Missouri | 0.0 | 13.6 | 62.1 | 19.7 | 4.5 | 66 |
Mississippi | 3.7 | 11.1 | 63.0 | 20.4 | 1.9 | 54 |
Montana | 0.0 | 4.0 | 92.0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 25 |
North Carolina | 0.0 | 9.1 | 61.4 | 27.3 | 2.3 | 44 |
North Dakota | 0.0 | 0.0 | 69.4 | 30.6 | 0.0 | 36 |
Nebraska | 0.0 | 11.3 | 50.0 | 29.0 | 9.7 | 62 |
New Mexico | 0.0 | 0.0 | 83.3 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 12 |
New York | 0.0 | 0.0 | 88.0 | 12.0 | 0.0 | 25 |
Ohio | 0.0 | 10.3 | 56.4 | 30.8 | 2.6 | 39 |
Oklahoma | 0.0 | 8.7 | 56.5 | 28.3 | 6.5 | 46 |
Oregon | 0.0 | 6.7 | 53.3 | 26.7 | 13.3 | 15 |
Pennsylvania | 0.0 | 8.0 | 60.0 | 24.0 | 8.0 | 25 |
South Carolina | 0.0 | 12.5 | 68.8 | 18.8 | 0.0 | 16 |
South Dakota | 0.0 | 6.7 | 62.2 | 26.7 | 4.4 | 45 |
Tennessee | 0.0 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 36 |
Texas | 0.0 | 9.3 | 57.7 | 29.9 | 3.1 | 97 |
Utah | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7 |
Virginia | 0.0 | 8.7 | 73.9 | 17.4 | 0.0 | 23 |
Washington | 0.0 | 7.1 | 57.1 | 28.6 | 7.1 | 14 |
Wisconsin | 0.0 | 2.6 | 44.7 | 47.4 | 5.3 | 38 |
West Virginia | 0.0 | 5.9 | 94.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17 |
States with fewer than 15 respondents | 0.0 | 5.4 | 83.8 | 10.8 | 0.0 | 37 |
All States | 0.4 | 8.3 | 63.8 | 23.3 | 4.3 | 1,369 |