| U.S. General Accounting Office |
| Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
| Q24a. In your county, how did each of the following changes in the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (farm bill) strengthen or weaken monitoring of HELC compliance?: Instituted variance for weather, pest, diseases, or other natural disasters. |
| Significantly strengthened (percent) | Strengthened (percent) | Neither strengthened nor weakened (percent) | Weakened (percent) | Significantly weakend (percent) | Number of respondents | |
| Alabama | 0.0 | 26.8 | 61.0 | 9.8 | 2.4 | 41 |
| Arkansas | 0.0 | 17.4 | 73.9 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 23 |
| California | 0.0 | 26.7 | 66.7 | 6.7 | 0.0 | 15 |
| Colorado | 2.9 | 40.0 | 42.9 | 14.3 | 0.0 | 35 |
| Florida | 0.0 | 38.5 | 53.8 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 13 |
| Georgia | 2.0 | 30.6 | 57.1 | 8.2 | 2.0 | 49 |
| Iowa | 0.0 | 26.6 | 57.0 | 16.5 | 0.0 | 79 |
| Idaho | 0.0 | 40.0 | 50.0 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 20 |
| Illinois | 2.8 | 29.6 | 56.3 | 9.9 | 1.4 | 71 |
| Indiana | 1.8 | 21.8 | 58.2 | 14.5 | 3.6 | 55 |
| Kansas | 1.1 | 24.1 | 52.9 | 20.7 | 1.1 | 87 |
| Kentucky | 1.5 | 33.8 | 63.1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 65 |
| Louisiana | 3.7 | 25.9 | 70.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 27 |
| Maryland | 8.3 | 16.7 | 66.7 | 8.3 | 0.0 | 12 |
| Michigan | 0.0 | 15.4 | 82.1 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 39 |
| Minnesota | 1.7 | 16.9 | 57.6 | 16.9 | 6.8 | 59 |
| Missouri | 4.1 | 18.9 | 62.2 | 14.9 | 0.0 | 74 |
| Mississippi | 3.3 | 25.0 | 65.0 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 60 |
| Montana | 5.1 | 25.6 | 51.3 | 17.9 | 0.0 | 39 |
| North Carolina | 5.4 | 23.2 | 66.1 | 5.4 | 0.0 | 56 |
| North Dakota | 4.3 | 28.3 | 65.2 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 46 |
| Nebraska | 4.2 | 29.2 | 51.4 | 11.1 | 4.2 | 72 |
| New Mexico | 0.0 | 26.3 | 52.6 | 21.1 | 0.0 | 19 |
| New York | 0.0 | 35.1 | 54.1 | 10.8 | 0.0 | 37 |
| Ohio | 0.0 | 36.0 | 48.0 | 12.0 | 4.0 | 50 |
| Oklahoma | 7.1 | 35.7 | 53.6 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 56 |
| Oregon | 0.0 | 31.3 | 62.5 | 6.3 | 0.0 | 16 |
| Pennsylvania | 0.0 | 32.4 | 58.8 | 8.8 | 0.0 | 34 |
| South Carolina | 5.0 | 40.0 | 50.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 20 |
| South Dakota | 0.0 | 16.0 | 60.0 | 20.0 | 4.0 | 50 |
| Tennessee | 0.0 | 27.1 | 60.4 | 8.3 | 4.2 | 48 |
| Texas | 0.0 | 25.4 | 57.6 | 14.4 | 2.5 | 118 |
| Utah | 0.0 | 25.0 | 75.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8 |
| Virginia | 3.3 | 26.7 | 70.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 30 |
| Washington | 0.0 | 21.1 | 57.9 | 21.1 | 0.0 | 19 |
| Wisconsin | 0.0 | 17.0 | 72.3 | 8.5 | 2.1 | 47 |
| West Virginia | 5.3 | 26.3 | 68.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 19 |
| States with fewer than 15 respondents | 1.9 | 21.2 | 75.0 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 52 |
| All States | 2.0 | 26.4 | 59.8 | 10.2 | 1.6 | 1,660 |