American Sugarbeet Growers Association

Based in DC

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AI Overview

With $4.6M in lobbying spend across 36 quarterly filings, American Sugarbeet Growers Association is a significant lobbying presence. Their lobbying covers 8 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.

$4.6M

Total Spend

Years Active

Firms Hired

Lobbyists Deployed

Issues Lobbied

Spending Trend

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Year	Lobbying Spend
2018	$910K
2019	$403K
2020	$520K
2021	$520K
2022	$650K
2023	$520K
2024	$520K
2025	$570K

Issues Lobbied

Trade Agriculture Food Industry Taxation Environment Budget/Appropriations Insurance Disaster Planning

Lobbying Firms

American Sugarbeet Growers Association

Lobbyists

Luther Markwart Ruthann Geib Winfield Herndon Zachary Clark

What They Lobby About

These are actual descriptions from their quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, summarizing what they lobbied Congress and federal agencies about.Issue areas: Trade, Agriculture, Food Industry, Taxation, Environment and 3 more

•Updates for House and Senate members and staff regarding the Mexico sugar suspension agreements.
•Updates for House and Senate members and staff regarding sugar access for Mexico and Canada in NAFTA r

•General sugar policy provisions in discussions with House and Senate members and staff regarding the 2018 Farm Bill.
•Discussions with House and Senate members and staff regarding industry opposition

•Exemption requested to "Added Sugars" labeling requirements proposed by the FDA (packages of sugar should not be required to include label "contains added sugars")

•Tax reform/Sec. 199: House and Senate office meetings regarding concerns about Sec. 199A "fix" in the "Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018"; House amendment to the Senate amendment to HR 1625.

•Updates for House and Senate members and staff regarding Industry opposition to increased sugar access for Canada in NAFTA renegotiation talks; meetings with Ambassador Gregg Doud, USTR Ag Negotiator,