U.S. General Accounting Office |
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
Q59c. If you discover that a producer is not applying an important practice in his or her conservation system during a status review, how often do you do the following?: Inform the producer that he or she is out of compliance and provide appeal rights |
Always or almost always (percent) | Most of the time (percent) | About half of the time (percent) | Some of the time (percent) | Never or almost never (percent) | Number of respondents | |
Alabama | 54.5 | 20.5 | 0.0 | 11.4 | 13.6 | 44 |
Arkansas | 78.6 | 14.3 | 0.0 | 7.1 | 0.0 | 28 |
California | 72.2 | 0.0 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 16.7 | 18 |
Colorado | 51.4 | 8.1 | 2.7 | 16.2 | 21.6 | 37 |
Florida | 71.4 | 9.5 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 14.3 | 21 |
Georgia | 58.0 | 12.0 | 6.0 | 14.0 | 10.0 | 50 |
Iowa | 39.0 | 29.9 | 3.9 | 20.8 | 6.5 | 77 |
Idaho | 50.0 | 9.1 | 0.0 | 13.6 | 27.3 | 22 |
Illinois | 49.3 | 11.0 | 9.6 | 20.5 | 9.6 | 73 |
Indiana | 48.1 | 13.5 | 1.9 | 15.4 | 21.2 | 52 |
Kansas | 44.7 | 4.7 | 0.0 | 16.5 | 34.1 | 85 |
Kentucky | 46.9 | 4.7 | 0.0 | 35.9 | 12.5 | 64 |
Louisiana | 83.9 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 6.5 | 31 |
Maryland | 27.3 | 9.1 | 18.2 | 18.2 | 27.3 | 11 |
Michigan | 57.5 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 17.5 | 15.0 | 40 |
Minnesota | 36.7 | 15.0 | 3.3 | 23.3 | 21.7 | 60 |
Missouri | 48.6 | 4.2 | 2.8 | 20.8 | 23.6 | 72 |
Mississippi | 58.5 | 5.7 | 7.5 | 11.3 | 17.0 | 53 |
Montana | 37.1 | 11.4 | 2.9 | 8.6 | 40.0 | 35 |
North Carolina | 64.3 | 10.7 | 7.1 | 12.5 | 5.4 | 56 |
North Dakota | 50.0 | 18.2 | 4.5 | 11.4 | 15.9 | 44 |
Nebraska | 56.9 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 24.6 | 9.2 | 65 |
New Mexico | 56.3 | 31.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12.5 | 16 |
New York | 44.1 | 17.6 | 2.9 | 14.7 | 20.6 | 34 |
Ohio | 47.9 | 12.5 | 4.2 | 14.6 | 20.8 | 48 |
Oklahoma | 63.0 | 9.3 | 0.0 | 16.7 | 11.1 | 54 |
Oregon | 37.5 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 18.8 | 18.8 | 16 |
Pennsylvania | 48.6 | 14.3 | 2.9 | 17.1 | 17.1 | 35 |
South Carolina | 55.6 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 5.6 | 22.2 | 18 |
South Dakota | 44.9 | 6.1 | 2.0 | 24.5 | 22.4 | 49 |
Tennessee | 65.9 | 6.8 | 0.0 | 20.5 | 6.8 | 44 |
Texas | 51.3 | 16.2 | 2.6 | 12.8 | 17.1 | 117 |
Utah | 50.0 | 12.5 | 0.0 | 12.5 | 25.0 | 8 |
Virginia | 67.6 | 5.9 | 0.0 | 14.7 | 11.8 | 34 |
Washington | 55.0 | 10.0 | 5.0 | 10.0 | 20.0 | 20 |
Wisconsin | 40.8 | 8.2 | 4.1 | 32.7 | 14.3 | 49 |
West Virginia | 56.3 | 6.3 | 0.0 | 12.5 | 25.0 | 16 |
States with fewer than 15 respondents | 73.5 | 2.0 | 4.1 | 8.2 | 12.2 | 49 |
All States | 52.8 | 11.0 | 3.2 | 16.7 | 16.4 | 1,645 |