U.S. General Accounting Office |
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
Q75c. In your opinion, to what extent do the following areas of guidance in the current National Food Security Act Manual (NFSAM) need to be improved?: Swampbuster provisions, overall |
Needs very great improvement (percent) | Needs great improvement (percent) | Needs moderate improvement (percent) | Needs some improvement (percent) | Needs little or no improvement (percent) | Number of respondents | |
Alabama | 7.1 | 21.4 | 21.4 | 16.7 | 33.3 | 42 |
Arkansas | 6.7 | 6.7 | 23.3 | 26.7 | 36.7 | 30 |
California | 0.0 | 9.1 | 27.3 | 22.7 | 40.9 | 22 |
Colorado | 3.0 | 3.0 | 30.3 | 12.1 | 51.5 | 33 |
Florida | 3.7 | 3.7 | 29.6 | 22.2 | 40.7 | 27 |
Georgia | 7.4 | 16.7 | 14.8 | 14.8 | 46.3 | 54 |
Iowa | 5.2 | 23.4 | 26.0 | 14.3 | 31.2 | 77 |
Idaho | 8.0 | 20.0 | 8.0 | 16.0 | 48.0 | 25 |
Illinois | 5.4 | 18.9 | 17.6 | 20.3 | 37.8 | 74 |
Indiana | 9.8 | 7.8 | 19.6 | 27.5 | 35.3 | 51 |
Kansas | 9.6 | 8.4 | 27.7 | 19.3 | 34.9 | 83 |
Kentucky | 3.8 | 15.1 | 20.8 | 13.2 | 47.2 | 53 |
Louisiana | 2.7 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 18.9 | 62.2 | 37 |
Maryland | 8.3 | 41.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 12 |
Michigan | 7.5 | 15.0 | 20.0 | 22.5 | 35.0 | 40 |
Minnesota | 9.0 | 14.9 | 23.9 | 23.9 | 28.4 | 67 |
Missouri | 6.1 | 10.6 | 16.7 | 19.7 | 47.0 | 66 |
Mississippi | 0.0 | 12.3 | 26.3 | 17.5 | 43.9 | 57 |
Montana | 6.9 | 17.2 | 3.4 | 20.7 | 51.7 | 29 |
North Carolina | 9.8 | 11.5 | 21.3 | 11.5 | 45.9 | 61 |
North Dakota | 17.0 | 21.3 | 25.5 | 14.9 | 21.3 | 47 |
Nebraska | 15.2 | 10.6 | 25.8 | 27.3 | 21.2 | 66 |
New Mexico | 0.0 | 7.1 | 35.7 | 7.1 | 50.0 | 14 |
New York | 11.8 | 5.9 | 20.6 | 20.6 | 41.2 | 34 |
Ohio | 13.0 | 11.1 | 18.5 | 24.1 | 33.3 | 54 |
Oklahoma | 4.2 | 10.4 | 16.7 | 22.9 | 45.8 | 48 |
Oregon | 6.3 | 12.5 | 18.8 | 6.3 | 56.3 | 16 |
Pennsylvania | 3.0 | 12.1 | 15.2 | 24.2 | 45.5 | 33 |
South Carolina | 0.0 | 3.7 | 18.5 | 18.5 | 59.3 | 27 |
South Dakota | 13.6 | 6.8 | 25.0 | 20.5 | 34.1 | 44 |
Tennessee | 2.0 | 12.0 | 16.0 | 16.0 | 54.0 | 50 |
Texas | 8.2 | 10.9 | 12.7 | 16.4 | 51.8 | 110 |
Utah | 8.3 | 8.3 | 33.3 | 8.3 | 41.7 | 12 |
Virginia | 5.6 | 16.7 | 19.4 | 19.4 | 38.9 | 36 |
Washington | 4.8 | 19.0 | 19.0 | 14.3 | 42.9 | 21 |
Wisconsin | 13.0 | 10.9 | 26.1 | 13.0 | 37.0 | 46 |
West Virginia | 0.0 | 16.7 | 22.2 | 11.1 | 50.0 | 18 |
States with fewer than 15 respondents | 5.4 | 8.9 | 17.9 | 21.4 | 46.4 | 56 |
All States | 7.2 | 12.7 | 20.3 | 18.5 | 41.1 | 1,672 |