U.S. General Accounting Office |
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
Q60b. When you see a USDA participant's tract that includes HEL cropland farmed without a conservation system to meet the soil-loss reduction requirements, how often do you do the following?: Wait to see if the tract is on this year's status review list. |
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 | 7.3 | 9.8 | 0.0 | 4.9 | 78.0 | 41 |
Arkansas | 8.7 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 8.7 | 73.9 | 23 |
California | 12.5 | 12.5 | 0.0 | 6.3 | 68.8 | 16 |
Colorado | 12.9 | 9.7 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 64.5 | 31 |
Florida | 7.7 | 15.4 | 0.0 | 15.4 | 61.5 | 13 |
Georgia | 6.4 | 10.6 | 2.1 | 4.3 | 76.6 | 47 |
Iowa | 4.2 | 7.0 | 1.4 | 9.9 | 77.5 | 71 |
Idaho | 11.1 | 5.6 | 0.0 | 16.7 | 66.7 | 18 |
Illinois | 7.6 | 9.1 | 6.1 | 16.7 | 60.6 | 66 |
Indiana | 7.4 | 13.0 | 3.7 | 9.3 | 66.7 | 54 |
Kansas | 12.5 | 5.0 | 1.3 | 10.0 | 71.3 | 80 |
Kentucky | 1.8 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 16.4 | 76.4 | 55 |
Louisiana | 20.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 | 75.0 | 20 |
Maryland | 0.0 | 18.2 | 0.0 | 9.1 | 72.7 | 11 |
Michigan | 8.8 | 5.9 | 0.0 | 14.7 | 70.6 | 34 |
Minnesota | 3.6 | 10.7 | 0.0 | 8.9 | 76.8 | 56 |
Missouri | 7.6 | 15.2 | 0.0 | 15.2 | 62.1 | 66 |
Mississippi | 5.4 | 10.7 | 5.4 | 3.6 | 75.0 | 56 |
Montana | 8.6 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 8.6 | 62.9 | 35 |
North Carolina | 12.5 | 8.3 | 6.3 | 4.2 | 68.8 | 48 |
North Dakota | 0.0 | 2.5 | 10.0 | 10.0 | 77.5 | 40 |
Nebraska | 6.9 | 10.3 | 0.0 | 12.1 | 70.7 | 58 |
New Mexico | 6.7 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 73.3 | 15 |
New York | 12.1 | 9.1 | 0.0 | 18.2 | 60.6 | 33 |
Ohio | 10.0 | 8.0 | 2.0 | 12.0 | 68.0 | 50 |
Oklahoma | 13.3 | 4.4 | 6.7 | 8.9 | 66.7 | 45 |
Oregon | 6.7 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 66.7 | 15 |
Pennsylvania | 20.7 | 10.3 | 3.4 | 13.8 | 51.7 | 29 |
South Carolina | 4.8 | 4.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 90.5 | 21 |
South Dakota | 4.0 | 8.0 | 0.0 | 8.0 | 80.0 | 50 |
Tennessee | 6.5 | 10.9 | 0.0 | 4.3 | 78.3 | 46 |
Texas | 9.5 | 7.6 | 1.9 | 4.8 | 76.2 | 105 |
Utah | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11.1 | 88.9 | 9 |
Virginia | 6.3 | 3.1 | 0.0 | 15.6 | 75.0 | 32 |
Washington | 20.0 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 6.7 | 66.7 | 15 |
Wisconsin | 4.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.1 | 91.8 | 49 |
West Virginia | 0.0 | 14.3 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 71.4 | 14 |
States with fewer than 15 respondents | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 92.0 | 50 |
All States | 7.7 | 8.2 | 2.1 | 9.2 | 72.8 | 1,517 |