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: ohio-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.
68 filings
$6.2M on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW
62 filings
$6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG
58 filings
$4.1M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
54 filings
$4.7M on those filings
Immigration
IMM
54 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR
52 filings
$4M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
51 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Transportation
TRA
43 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
41 filings
$3.3M on those filings
Animals
ANI
38 filings
$4.6M 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.
118th Congress
Lower Energy Costs Act
8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1018118th CongressProtect Farmers from the SEC Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1495118th CongressPrecision Agriculture Loan Program Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 1014118th CongressDairy Pricing Opportunity Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 391118th CongressProtect Farmers from the SEC Act8 filingsthrough 2024
S. 719118th CongressPrecision Agriculture Loan Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 720118th CongressPRECISE Act of 20238 filingsthrough 2024
S. 874118th CongressFarm Operations Support Act8 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1381117th CongressMain Street Tax Certainty Act8 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 1603117th CongressFarm Workforce Modernization Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2370117th CongressPreserving Family Farms Act of 20218 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 603117th CongressRaise the Wage Act of 20218 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.
Steven Bradley Bales
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Covered position: Sr. Director of State and National Polciy
11 filingsthrough 2026
Covered positions · 3 of 5 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
