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
This organization files only for itself — no outside firm has reported fees for it.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
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: kentucky-farm-bureau-federation.
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.
46 filings
$3.5M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
45 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
45 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Animals
ANI
35 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
23 filings
$2.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
14 filings
$975K on those filings
Health Issues
HCR
12 filings
$944K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
11 filings
$902K on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
8 filings
$370K on those filings
Commodities (big ticket)
CDT
6 filings
$494K on those 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.
117th Congress
Cattle Market Transparency Act of 2021
7 filingsthrough 2022
S. 930119th CongressA bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income capital gains from the sale of certain farmland property which are reinvested in individual retirement plans.6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 5887117th CongressKeep Food Local and Affordable Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
S. 3134117th CongressKeep Food Local and Affordable Act of 20215 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5992117th CongressCattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 20214 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2115th CongressAgriculture Improvement Act of 20183 filingsthrough 2018
H.J.Res. 27118th CongressProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Revised Definition of 'Waters of the United States'".2 filingsthrough 2023
H.R. 5089117th CongressNext Generation Fuels Act of 20212 filingsthrough 2022
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
10 filingsthrough 2023
Laura M KnothKentucky Farm Bureau FederationCovered position: Director Public Affairs Division6 filingsthrough 2009
Covered positions · 5 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
