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