| U.S. General Accounting Office |
| Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
| Q24f. 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 crop insurance payments from the list of benefits 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 | 0.0 | 13.5 | 51.4 | 27.0 | 8.1 | 37 |
| Arkansas | 0.0 | 15.0 | 50.0 | 20.0 | 15.0 | 20 |
| California | 0.0 | 0.0 | 80.0 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 15 |
| Colorado | 3.1 | 18.8 | 56.3 | 21.9 | 0.0 | 32 |
| Florida | 0.0 | 23.1 | 30.8 | 30.8 | 15.4 | 13 |
| Georgia | 0.0 | 16.3 | 60.5 | 14.0 | 9.3 | 43 |
| Iowa | 0.0 | 9.7 | 36.1 | 40.3 | 13.9 | 72 |
| Idaho | 0.0 | 6.3 | 62.5 | 25.0 | 6.3 | 16 |
| Illinois | 0.0 | 15.9 | 47.6 | 31.7 | 4.8 | 63 |
| Indiana | 2.0 | 10.2 | 57.1 | 26.5 | 4.1 | 49 |
| Kansas | 0.0 | 11.1 | 42.0 | 35.8 | 11.1 | 81 |
| Kentucky | 1.8 | 8.9 | 69.6 | 19.6 | 0.0 | 56 |
| Louisiana | 0.0 | 15.8 | 42.1 | 26.3 | 15.8 | 19 |
| Maryland | 8.3 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 16.7 | 8.3 | 12 |
| Michigan | 0.0 | 5.7 | 65.7 | 20.0 | 8.6 | 35 |
| Minnesota | 0.0 | 3.4 | 56.9 | 27.6 | 12.1 | 58 |
| Missouri | 0.0 | 13.2 | 52.9 | 26.5 | 7.4 | 68 |
| Mississippi | 1.7 | 25.4 | 45.8 | 22.0 | 5.1 | 59 |
| Montana | 0.0 | 5.9 | 61.8 | 32.4 | 0.0 | 34 |
| North Carolina | 0.0 | 17.6 | 47.1 | 21.6 | 13.7 | 51 |
| North Dakota | 0.0 | 7.0 | 60.5 | 23.3 | 9.3 | 43 |
| Nebraska | 0.0 | 1.5 | 52.3 | 35.4 | 10.8 | 65 |
| New Mexico | 0.0 | 18.8 | 50.0 | 25.0 | 6.3 | 16 |
| New York | 0.0 | 15.6 | 50.0 | 28.1 | 6.3 | 32 |
| Ohio | 0.0 | 14.3 | 45.2 | 35.7 | 4.8 | 42 |
| Oklahoma | 0.0 | 16.3 | 40.8 | 30.6 | 12.2 | 49 |
| Oregon | 0.0 | 14.3 | 57.1 | 21.4 | 7.1 | 14 |
| Pennsylvania | 0.0 | 14.3 | 46.4 | 32.1 | 7.1 | 28 |
| South Carolina | 0.0 | 23.5 | 70.6 | 5.9 | 0.0 | 17 |
| South Dakota | 0.0 | 6.4 | 36.2 | 44.7 | 12.8 | 47 |
| Tennessee | 0.0 | 12.5 | 55.0 | 25.0 | 7.5 | 40 |
| Texas | 0.0 | 9.2 | 46.9 | 32.7 | 11.2 | 98 |
| Utah | 0.0 | 25.0 | 75.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8 |
| Virginia | 3.8 | 11.5 | 19.2 | 61.5 | 3.8 | 26 |
| Washington | 0.0 | 0.0 | 52.9 | 23.5 | 23.5 | 17 |
| Wisconsin | 0.0 | 2.6 | 56.4 | 25.6 | 15.4 | 39 |
| West Virginia | 0.0 | 12.5 | 81.3 | 6.3 | 0.0 | 16 |
| States with fewer than 15 respondents | 0.0 | 13.0 | 71.7 | 13.0 | 2.2 | 46 |
| All States | 0.4 | 11.5 | 51.8 | 27.9 | 8.3 | 1,476 |