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
68 filings
$16.6M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
67 filings
$16.4M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
David CarlinCovered position: Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations, USDA50 filings1 client · through 2025
Ruth Dyk Saunders36 filings1 client · through 2017
Donald F. GradyCovered position: Legislative Assistant and Legislative Correspondent, Rep. Jim Costa; Legislative Correspondent and Staff Assistant, Rep. Jim Marshall.33 filings1 client · through 2025
Beth Hughes29 filings1 client · through 2020
Chelsee WoodeyCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Senator Jim Bunning
The filings
The 20 most recent of 68 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: international-dairy-foods-association.
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 $16.6M in expenses.
FOO · 1 client
62 filings
$14.3M on those filings
Immigration
IMM · 1 client
35 filings
$8.2M on those filings
Trucking/Shipping
TRU · 1 client
28 filings
$6.1M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
25 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
24 filings
$5.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
21 filings
$4.5M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
13 filings
$2.8M on those filings
Railroads
RRR · 1 client
5 filings
$1M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
4 filings
$845K on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
4 filings
$612K 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.
26 filings1 client · through 2017
Robert RosadoCovered position: Senior Professional Staff, US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry; Director of Legislative & Public Affairs, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)22 filings1 client · through 2026
Jerry Slominski21 filings1 client · through 2014
Anthony EberhardCovered position: Dep Chief of Staff/Leg Director for Sen. John Hoeven; Prof Staff; Senate Agriculture Committee; Acting Leg Director, Dep Leg Director and Leg Asst for Sen. Norm Coleman; Leg Asst for Rep. Jo Ann Emerson; Leg Corr and Staff Asst for Rep Hulshof14 filings1 client · through 2020
Chelsie KeysCovered position: Policy Director, US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry2 filings1 client · through 2026
Adam TarrCovered position: Senior Professional Staff Member, US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Bob Casey and Sen. Arlen Specter2 filings1 client · through 2026
Katie Gilmore Sparrow2 filings1 client · through 2010
Ashley Burch1 filing1 client · through 2017
Covered positions · 7 of 12 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.
