| U.S. General Accounting Office |
| Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
| Q49. When you are doing a status review, does your supervisor encourage or discourage identifying tracts/fields in violation of conservation compliance provisions? |
| Strongly encourages (percent) | Generally encourages (percent) | Slightly encourages (percent) | Neither encourages nor discourages (percent) | Slightly discourages (percent) | Generally discourage (percent) | Strongly discourages (percent) | Number of respondents | |
| Alabama | 20.8 | 18.8 | 0.0 | 60.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 48 |
| Arkansas | 29.3 | 19.5 | 2.4 | 48.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 41 |
| California | 13.8 | 31.0 | 0.0 | 51.7 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 29 |
| Colorado | 28.6 | 31.0 | 2.4 | 35.7 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 42 |
| Florida | 22.6 | 16.1 | 3.2 | 58.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 31 |
| Georgia | 21.7 | 16.7 | 1.7 | 58.3 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 60 |
| Iowa | 25.0 | 18.8 | 6.3 | 45.0 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 80 |
| Idaho | 22.2 | 18.5 | 3.7 | 55.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 27 |
| Illinois | 18.4 | 18.4 | 1.3 | 56.6 | 1.3 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 76 |
| Indiana | 11.5 | 23.0 | 3.3 | 62.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 61 |
| Kansas | 21.7 | 21.7 | 1.1 | 45.7 | 5.4 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 92 |
| Kentucky | 15.3 | 19.4 | 2.8 | 61.1 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 72 |
| Louisiana | 67.4 | 11.6 | 0.0 | 20.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 43 |
| Maryland | 6.7 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 6.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 15 |
| Michigan | 23.4 | 12.8 | 0.0 | 63.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 47 |
| Minnesota | 22.1 | 19.1 | 2.9 | 54.4 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 68 |
| Missouri | 23.8 | 13.8 | 5.0 | 53.8 | 0.0 | 3.8 | 0.0 | 80 |
| Mississippi | 18.2 | 27.3 | 1.5 | 50.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 66 |
| Montana | 9.1 | 13.6 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 44 |
| North Carolina | 25.0 | 17.6 | 2.9 | 54.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 68 |
| North Dakota | 32.7 | 16.3 | 2.0 | 49.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 49 |
| Nebraska | 25.4 | 18.3 | 5.6 | 47.9 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 71 |
| New Mexico | 35.0 | 15.0 | 5.0 | 40.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 20 |
| New York | 21.1 | 23.7 | 2.6 | 52.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 38 |
| Ohio | 5.2 | 13.8 | 0.0 | 75.9 | 3.4 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 58 |
| Oklahoma | 40.3 | 21.0 | 4.8 | 33.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 62 |
| Oregon | 15.8 | 31.6 | 0.0 | 52.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 19 |
| Pennsylvania | 7.5 | 12.5 | 7.5 | 72.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 40 |
| South Carolina | 35.7 | 21.4 | 3.6 | 39.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 28 |
| South Dakota | 14.8 | 24.1 | 1.9 | 51.9 | 5.6 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 54 |
| Tennessee | 22.6 | 20.8 | 0.0 | 56.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 53 |
| Texas | 30.2 | 18.8 | 2.0 | 46.3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 149 |
| Utah | 38.5 | 38.5 | 0.0 | 23.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 13 |
| Virginia | 20.0 | 27.5 | 0.0 | 45.0 | 0.0 | 7.5 | 0.0 | 40 |
| Washington | 20.8 | 8.3 | 0.0 | 70.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 24 |
| Wisconsin | 15.4 | 21.2 | 1.9 | 57.7 | 3.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 52 |
| West Virginia | 30.4 | 4.3 | 8.7 | 47.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8.7 | 23 |
| States with fewer than 15 respondents | 15.4 | 27.7 | 1.5 | 52.3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 65 |
| All States | 22.8 | 19.6 | 2.4 | 52.5 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1,948 |