U.S. General Accounting Office |
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
Q23d. 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?: Required additional farm program benefits be subject to denial for violations of HELC. |
Significantly strengthened (percent) | Strengthened (percent) | Neither strengthened nor weakened (percent) | Weakened (percent) | Significantly weakend (percent) | Number of respondents | |
Alabama | 2.6 | 53.8 | 35.9 | 2.6 | 5.1 | 39 |
Arkansas | 11.1 | 55.6 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 18 |
California | 0.0 | 50.0 | 42.9 | 7.1 | 0.0 | 14 |
Colorado | 2.9 | 44.1 | 44.1 | 5.9 | 2.9 | 34 |
Florida | 0.0 | 63.6 | 36.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11 |
Georgia | 4.3 | 29.8 | 61.7 | 4.3 | 0.0 | 47 |
Iowa | 5.3 | 53.3 | 37.3 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 75 |
Idaho | 5.9 | 35.3 | 58.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17 |
Illinois | 13.0 | 44.9 | 40.6 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 69 |
Indiana | 0.0 | 61.5 | 38.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 52 |
Kansas | 1.3 | 39.2 | 58.2 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 79 |
Kentucky | 1.7 | 40.0 | 58.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 60 |
Louisiana | 0.0 | 50.0 | 45.8 | 4.2 | 0.0 | 24 |
Maryland | 10.0 | 40.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10 |
Michigan | 2.9 | 29.4 | 64.7 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 34 |
Minnesota | 0.0 | 38.2 | 56.4 | 1.8 | 3.6 | 55 |
Missouri | 1.4 | 45.7 | 50.0 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 70 |
Mississippi | 5.2 | 44.8 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 58 |
Montana | 2.7 | 48.6 | 45.9 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 37 |
North Carolina | 5.7 | 43.4 | 49.1 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 53 |
North Dakota | 7.3 | 53.7 | 34.1 | 4.9 | 0.0 | 41 |
Nebraska | 4.5 | 47.0 | 42.4 | 1.5 | 4.5 | 66 |
New Mexico | 0.0 | 41.2 | 52.9 | 0.0 | 5.9 | 17 |
New York | 3.2 | 45.2 | 51.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 31 |
Ohio | 9.1 | 47.7 | 40.9 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 44 |
Oklahoma | 3.9 | 56.9 | 33.3 | 2.0 | 3.9 | 51 |
Oregon | 12.5 | 37.5 | 43.8 | 6.3 | 0.0 | 16 |
Pennsylvania | 16.1 | 45.2 | 38.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 31 |
South Carolina | 5.6 | 27.8 | 55.6 | 11.1 | 0.0 | 18 |
South Dakota | 4.4 | 42.2 | 48.9 | 4.4 | 0.0 | 45 |
Tennessee | 0.0 | 44.4 | 55.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 45 |
Texas | 2.8 | 42.6 | 51.9 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 108 |
Utah | 0.0 | 50.0 | 37.5 | 0.0 | 12.5 | 8 |
Virginia | 9.7 | 58.1 | 32.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 31 |
Washington | 0.0 | 68.4 | 31.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 19 |
Wisconsin | 2.1 | 62.5 | 33.3 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 48 |
West Virginia | 0.0 | 33.3 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 18 |
States with fewer than 15 respondents | 0.0 | 38.5 | 61.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 52 |
All States | 4.0 | 45.9 | 47.2 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 1,545 |