• USDA sugar regulations involving TRQ policy; USTR trade policies; Farm Bill oversight and rulemaking; Food Safety regulations, and Combustible Dust regulation at OSHA.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to August 31, 2012

General Issues: Agriculture, Budget/Appropriations, Fuel/Gas/Oil, Commodities (Big Ticket), Trade (Domestic & Foreign)

Spending: about $780,000 (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 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Energy - Dept of, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA),, White House Office, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)