• Lobbying Congress for 2023 Farm Bill programs including extending and expanding ELAP for beekeepers, continuing research at ARS, NIFA, NASS, APHIS and other research agencies at USDA, labeling changes with regard to country of origin, oversight of APHIS biocontrol releases, and extension of other programs beneficial to the US beekeeping industry.
• Lobbying Congress to continue enforcing against Chinese and other country trade schemes to lower the price and quality of honey in the United States; lobby for collection and distribution of duties owed to domestic producers.
• Lobby Congress to improve labels for honey and establish a national standard of identity for honey, including H.R. 4764, the Honey Identification Verification and Enforcement (HIVE) Act
• Lobbying EPA to produce guidance for industry on labeling requirements and use of registered and non registered pest control products on honey bee hives

Duration: November 1, 2015 to present

General Issues: Agriculture, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Food Industry (Safety, Labeling, etc.), Environmental/Superfund, Transportation, Immigration

Spending: about $2,040,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2015: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Transportation - Dept of (DOT)