• Crop Insurance Agents Commission; Support of Section 11011 of the Farm Bill, HR 1947, HR 2642; Full Year Continuing Appropriations Act of 2014, HR 83, support of the FY 2016 Omnibus Bill for inclusion of language to benefit specialty crop insurance agents; continued efforts to find relief for specialty crop insurance agents; efforts to ensure the coverage of specialty crops by RMA due to lack of water in CA.

Duration: May 4, 2011 to January 1, 2017

General Issues: Agriculture

Spending: about $270,000 (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 2011: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)