• Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2024 and 2025. Support for continual increased funding for USDA related departments impacting barley research (ARS, ERS, NASS, NIFA). $2.3 million increase for the Barley Pest Initiative and initiation of new Resilient Barley Initiative with $8 million annual funding. Farm Bill, 2023. Increased authorization to $20 million for the U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative.

Duration: November 1, 2007 to present

General Issues: Agriculture, Transportation, Food Industry (Safety, Labeling, etc.), Railroads, Beverage Industry, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $592,601 (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 2007: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), President of the U.S., Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Y Y USDA, OMB