U.S. General Accounting Office |
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
Q24c. 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 Farm Service Agency variance and grace period for economic hardship relief. |
Significantly strengthened (percent) | Strengthened (percent) | Neither strengthened nor weakened (percent) | Weakened (percent) | Significantly weakend (percent) | Number of respondents | |
Alabama | 0.0 | 30.0 | 40.0 | 27.5 | 2.5 | 40 |
Arkansas | 0.0 | 19.0 | 61.9 | 14.3 | 4.8 | 21 |
California | 0.0 | 33.3 | 60.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 | 15 |
Colorado | 3.1 | 25.0 | 56.3 | 12.5 | 3.1 | 32 |
Florida | 0.0 | 33.3 | 58.3 | 8.3 | 0.0 | 12 |
Georgia | 0.0 | 26.0 | 66.0 | 6.0 | 2.0 | 50 |
Iowa | 0.0 | 17.3 | 53.3 | 26.7 | 2.7 | 75 |
Idaho | 0.0 | 16.7 | 72.2 | 11.1 | 0.0 | 18 |
Illinois | 1.6 | 14.3 | 68.3 | 12.7 | 3.2 | 63 |
Indiana | 0.0 | 12.0 | 66.0 | 16.0 | 6.0 | 50 |
Kansas | 0.0 | 19.8 | 51.9 | 22.2 | 6.2 | 81 |
Kentucky | 3.2 | 32.3 | 56.5 | 6.5 | 1.6 | 62 |
Louisiana | 0.0 | 30.4 | 52.2 | 17.4 | 0.0 | 23 |
Maryland | 9.1 | 9.1 | 81.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11 |
Michigan | 0.0 | 18.4 | 68.4 | 13.2 | 0.0 | 38 |
Minnesota | 0.0 | 10.0 | 65.0 | 18.3 | 6.7 | 60 |
Missouri | 1.4 | 18.1 | 63.9 | 13.9 | 2.8 | 72 |
Mississippi | 3.3 | 29.5 | 55.7 | 9.8 | 1.6 | 61 |
Montana | 0.0 | 24.3 | 59.5 | 13.5 | 2.7 | 37 |
North Carolina | 1.9 | 25.0 | 61.5 | 9.6 | 1.9 | 52 |
North Dakota | 0.0 | 23.3 | 58.1 | 16.3 | 2.3 | 43 |
Nebraska | 0.0 | 15.2 | 62.1 | 18.2 | 4.5 | 66 |
New Mexico | 0.0 | 27.8 | 50.0 | 16.7 | 5.6 | 18 |
New York | 0.0 | 25.7 | 57.1 | 11.4 | 5.7 | 35 |
Ohio | 0.0 | 25.6 | 55.8 | 14.0 | 4.7 | 43 |
Oklahoma | 2.0 | 30.6 | 44.9 | 16.3 | 6.1 | 49 |
Oregon | 0.0 | 23.1 | 61.5 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 13 |
Pennsylvania | 0.0 | 13.3 | 56.7 | 23.3 | 6.7 | 30 |
South Carolina | 0.0 | 52.6 | 42.1 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 19 |
South Dakota | 2.2 | 13.0 | 56.5 | 23.9 | 4.3 | 46 |
Tennessee | 0.0 | 23.9 | 60.9 | 10.9 | 4.3 | 46 |
Texas | 0.0 | 15.5 | 54.5 | 17.3 | 12.7 | 110 |
Utah | 0.0 | 33.3 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6 |
Virginia | 3.7 | 29.6 | 63.0 | 3.7 | 0.0 | 27 |
Washington | 0.0 | 5.9 | 82.4 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 17 |
Wisconsin | 0.0 | 9.3 | 58.1 | 27.9 | 4.7 | 43 |
West Virginia | 0.0 | 16.7 | 77.8 | 5.6 | 0.0 | 18 |
States with fewer than 15 respondents | 2.2 | 21.7 | 71.7 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 46 |
All States | 0.8 | 21.1 | 59.2 | 14.8 | 4.1 | 1,548 |