Updated May 2026 · Senate LDA filings
Agriculture & Food, Lobbying Spending
20 organizations · $109.7M total spend
Agriculture & Food carries a mid-tier disclosed federal lobbying footprint, with 20 tracked organizations reporting $109.7M in cumulative spend across the years tracked. This range is typical of sectors with selective federal engagement — major bills and rulemakings draw spending spikes, but quarter-to-quarter activity is steadier than in the heaviest industries.
What These Numbers Mean
Average disclosed spend per organization in Agriculture & Food is $5.5M, indicating a mix of large filers and steady mid-tier programs. Per-firm averages in this range are typical of mature industries with multiple long-running corporate government-affairs operations.
Within Agriculture & Food, the disclosed-spend leader is American Farm Bureau Federation at $31.7M — more than 214% ahead of the #2 sector filer Cargill Inc ($10.1M). A gap that wide usually indicates one anchor filer with a multi-decade in-house government-affairs operation.
Every figure on this page is drawn from filings submitted to the Senate Office of Public Records under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. Filings are quarterly and public domain. The campaign-finance research project at OpenSecrets uses the same Senate LDA filings as one input and frequently provides additional reporting on individual sector filers.
Top Policy Issues
Top-issue coverage for Agriculture & Food is unusually broad — at least 10 distinct issue areas appear in the sector's aggregated filings, signalling that filers in this industry engage Congress on a wide regulatory front rather than a single defining policy.
Top Spenders in Agriculture & Food
How to Read This Page
Industry pages aggregate all LobbySpend-tracked filers whose primary business sits in the same sector. The total-spend number is the sum of disclosed dollars across every quarterly LDA filing for those filers in the years tracked, deduplicated against amendments. The per-organization average is the simple mean and is sensitive to the presence of one or two megaspenders — for sectors with extreme top-heaviness, the median is typically a more useful summary, which the underlying data supports if you click through to the individual filer pages.
The top-issues breakdown reflects filer-allocated dollars on each filing — registrants are required to report which general issue areas they lobbied on and, where applicable, how spend was allocated. Issue dollars should be read as a directional signal of where attention is concentrated rather than as audited line items. For the full Influence Score formula and known limitations of LDA disclosures, see the methodology page.
Agriculture & Food organizations have collectively disclosed $109.7M in federal lobbying across 20 tracked filers, drawn from Senate LDA quarterly disclosure filings.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. federal lobbying disclosure dataset. The detail above comes directly from the Senate Lobbying Disclosure Office LD-2 filings; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. lobbying activity.
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