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