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
39 filings
$56.4M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
39 filings
$56.4M on those filings
Energy/Nuclear
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Jim Travis39 filings1 client · through 2018
Trent Lynn Clark39 filings1 client · through 2018
Jeremy StumpCovered position: Deputy Chief of Staff, USDA, Senior Advisor for International and Homeland, Security Affairs and Biotechnology, USDA, Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Marketing and, Regulatory Programs, USDA, Homeland Security Director, USDA, Confidential Assistant to the Secretary, USDA, Senior LA, Congressman Thomas W. Ewing, LC, Congressman Thomas W. Ewing, Scheduler, Congressman Thomas W. Ewing32 filings1 client · through 2018
Scott Kuschmider28 filings1 client · through 2018
Michael Holland
The filings
The 20 most recent of 39 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: monsanto-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 $56.4M in expenses.
ENG · 1 client
39 filings
$56.4M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
39 filings
$56.4M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
39 filings
$56.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT · 1 client
37 filings
$54.4M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
35 filings
$53M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO · 1 client
20 filings
$28.9M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
15 filings
$28.4M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
14 filings
$23.2M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
12 filings
$15.7M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
7 filings
$7.6M 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 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.
28 filings
1 client · through 2018
Michael Dykes27 filings1 client · through 2015
Kasey GilletteCovered position: Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Harry Reid, (2009-2014), Deputy Legislative Director, Senator Bob Casey, (2007 - 2009), Policy Advisor, Senator Debbie Stabenow, (2005-2007), Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Bob Graham, (2002 - 2004), Legislative Assistant, Senator Bob Graham, (2001 - 2002), Legislative Correspondent,, Senator Bob Graham (2000 - 2001), Staff Assistant, Senator Bob Graham, (2000), Intern, Senator Bob Graham, (1999)19 filings1 client · through 2018
Michael Parrish19 filings1 client · through 2013
Stephanie MurphyCovered position: Director for Agricultural Affairs, Office of the, United States Trade Representative, (February 2009 - July 2014)18 filings1 client · through 2018
Melissa AgustinCovered position: Director of Agricultural Affairs, Executive Office, of the President, Office of the U.S. Trade, Representative, Office of Agricultural Affairs, August 2007 - December 2011, Staff Assistant, Senator Larry Pressler (SD), May - August 1995, May 1996 - January 19978 filings1 client · through 2013
Jen Daulby Kaleta6 filings1 client · through 2009
Lucas TomanelliCovered position: 2015-2017, Dpty Staff Dir., Senate Comm. on Small Business and Entrepreneurship; 2006-2012, Leg. Asst./Subcom. Staff Dir., Leg. Aide, Leg. Corr., Sen. Mike Crapo; 2005-2006, Staff Asst., Intern, House Comm. on Ways and Means, Subcom. on Oversight1 filing1 client · through 2018
James Mcvaney1 filing1 client · through 2018
Covered positions · 6 of 16 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.
