U.S. General Accounting Office |
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
Q24e. 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?: Eliminated graduated reductions in program benefits for conservation compliance violations. |
Significantly strengthened (percent) | Strengthened (percent) | Neither strengthened nor weakened (percent) | Weakened (percent) | Significantly weakend (percent) | Number of respondents | |
Alabama | 0.0 | 7.9 | 55.3 | 31.6 | 5.3 | 38 |
Arkansas | 0.0 | 21.1 | 68.4 | 10.5 | 0.0 | 19 |
California | 0.0 | 23.1 | 69.2 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 13 |
Colorado | 0.0 | 26.7 | 66.7 | 6.7 | 0.0 | 30 |
Florida | 0.0 | 30.0 | 40.0 | 30.0 | 0.0 | 10 |
Georgia | 0.0 | 13.3 | 71.1 | 11.1 | 4.4 | 45 |
Iowa | 0.0 | 19.7 | 46.5 | 21.1 | 12.7 | 71 |
Idaho | 0.0 | 0.0 | 80.0 | 13.3 | 6.7 | 15 |
Illinois | 1.6 | 21.0 | 59.7 | 14.5 | 3.2 | 62 |
Indiana | 0.0 | 14.6 | 64.6 | 16.7 | 4.2 | 48 |
Kansas | 0.0 | 22.4 | 61.8 | 14.5 | 1.3 | 76 |
Kentucky | 0.0 | 11.7 | 83.3 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 60 |
Louisiana | 0.0 | 20.0 | 60.0 | 16.0 | 4.0 | 25 |
Maryland | 0.0 | 8.3 | 66.7 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 12 |
Michigan | 0.0 | 5.4 | 78.4 | 13.5 | 2.7 | 37 |
Minnesota | 0.0 | 10.0 | 66.7 | 20.0 | 3.3 | 60 |
Missouri | 0.0 | 15.5 | 60.6 | 22.5 | 1.4 | 71 |
Mississippi | 1.7 | 22.4 | 63.8 | 10.3 | 1.7 | 58 |
Montana | 0.0 | 12.5 | 71.9 | 15.6 | 0.0 | 32 |
North Carolina | 2.1 | 25.0 | 54.2 | 16.7 | 2.1 | 48 |
North Dakota | 4.8 | 14.3 | 59.5 | 16.7 | 4.8 | 42 |
Nebraska | 0.0 | 19.0 | 50.8 | 22.2 | 7.9 | 63 |
New Mexico | 0.0 | 25.0 | 56.3 | 18.8 | 0.0 | 16 |
New York | 0.0 | 15.2 | 66.7 | 9.1 | 9.1 | 33 |
Ohio | 2.4 | 16.7 | 59.5 | 14.3 | 7.1 | 42 |
Oklahoma | 0.0 | 19.1 | 63.8 | 10.6 | 6.4 | 47 |
Oregon | 0.0 | 20.0 | 53.3 | 13.3 | 13.3 | 15 |
Pennsylvania | 0.0 | 27.6 | 65.5 | 6.9 | 0.0 | 29 |
South Carolina | 0.0 | 26.3 | 68.4 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 19 |
South Dakota | 0.0 | 10.9 | 56.5 | 28.3 | 4.3 | 46 |
Tennessee | 0.0 | 13.6 | 72.7 | 13.6 | 0.0 | 44 |
Texas | 0.0 | 14.4 | 59.8 | 23.7 | 2.1 | 97 |
Utah | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8 |
Virginia | 0.0 | 25.0 | 50.0 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 28 |
Washington | 0.0 | 11.1 | 55.6 | 22.2 | 11.1 | 18 |
Wisconsin | 0.0 | 20.5 | 54.5 | 20.5 | 4.5 | 44 |
West Virginia | 0.0 | 7.1 | 92.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 14 |
States with fewer than 15 respondents | 2.1 | 12.8 | 72.3 | 8.5 | 4.3 | 47 |
All States | 0.5 | 16.7 | 62.9 | 16.3 | 3.6 | 1,482 |