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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
70 filings
$41.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
70 filings
$41.9M on those filings
Transportation
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Beth Marie Holzman60 filings1 client · through 2023
Anthony ReedCovered position: Rep T Latham: Leg Assistant, Leg Correspondent55 filings1 client · through 2022
Bryan DierlamCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, House Agriculture Committee 2005-200946 filings1 client · through 2026
David Woodruff26 filings1 client · through 2015
Matthew O'MaraCovered position: Staff Asst., USDA Undersecretary for Farm & Foreign Agriculture Service 2001-2003; Professional Staff Member, Senate Agriculture Committee 2003-2004; Staff Dir., House Agriculture Committee, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities & Risk Mgmt 2004
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: archer-daniels-midland-company.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $41.9M in expenses.
TRA · 1 client
69 filings
$41.6M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
66 filings
$37.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
59 filings
$34.8M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO · 1 client
43 filings
$28.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
38 filings
$28M on those filings
Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities
FIN · 1 client
24 filings
$12.4M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE · 1 client
9 filings
$13.3M on those filings
Manufacturing
MAN · 1 client
4 filings
$5.7M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
3 filings
$5.5M on those filings
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries
MAR · 1 client
3 filings
$5.5M 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 money 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.
19 filings1 client · through 2026
Maria Branca Pica Karp18 filings1 client · through 2026
Lorraine R Hawley18 filings1 client · through 2021
Trevor ReuschelCovered position: USDA: Leg Dir-Congl Rltns (3/15-8/15); Sen Durbin-Leg Asst (1/10 -2/15), Interim Dir Corresp/Leg Corresp/Stf Asst (2/08-1/10)8 filings1 client · through 2026
Shannon Herzfeld6 filings1 client · through 2009
Steve FordeCovered position: Press Secretary, U.S. Rep. John Boehner 2002-2004; Communications Director, House Education & the Workforce Committee 2005-2007; Deputy Communications Director, House Minority Leader 2007-20095 filings1 client · through 2024
Covered positions · 5 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
