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