60 filings from 2 registrants · 2008–2022 · latest filed Jan 18, 2023
Reported on its behalf
$650K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$650K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR
53 filings
$650K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
4 filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
Marshall MatzOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PCCovered position: Gen. Counsel Sen. Select Committee Nutritution & Human Needs51 filingsthrough 2022
Roger R SzemrajOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PCCovered position: CoS, Office of Rep. Kaptur, House Approps Comm51 filingsthrough 2022
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: didion-milling.
Eden ShiferawOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC
24 filingsthrough 2018
William B BroydrickBroydrick & Associates9 filingsthrough 2010
Philip C KarstingOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PCCovered position: Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service; CoS to Sen. Herb Kohl8 filingsthrough 2022
Julia JohnsonOlsson, Frank, Weeda, Terman & Matz, PC6 filingsthrough 2021
