Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative

Based in WI

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AI Overview

With $1.5M in lobbying spend across 33 quarterly filings, Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative is a significant lobbying presence. Their lobbying covers 7 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.

$1.5M

Total Spend

Years Active

Firms Hired

Lobbyists Deployed

Issues Lobbied

Spending Trend

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Year	Lobbying Spend
2018	$190K
2019	$200K
2020	$220K
2021	$300K
2022	$200K
2023	$130K
2024	$120K
2025	$120K

Issues Lobbied

Trade Agriculture Taxation Environment Food Industry Immigration Labor Issues

Lobbying Firms

Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative

Lobbyists

John Holevoet Sarah Hubbart Aaron Stauffacher Mykel Wedig Bickham Karen Gefvert

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, Taxation, Environment, Food Industry and 2 more

•Working to maintain and improve market access for dairy exports, including support for NAFTA, commenting on NAFTA renegotiation, opposing protectionist activity by Canada, and promoting new trade agre

•Work towards a favorable farm bill for dairy farmers. Reworking the Milk Margin Protection program for dairy farmers and allowing for simultaneous use of multiple risk management tools. Supporting the

•Supporting the Agricultural Environmental Stewardship Act of 2017 to amend Section 45 of the IRC. Supporting Tax Cuts and Jobs Act but ensuring changes the tax code are provisions favorable to agricul

•Working on the impact of environment regulations on the dairy industry, including the applicability of RCRA to manure, WOTUS, exempting animal ag from CERCLA, and the applicability of the Clean Water

•Supported the DAIRY PRIDE Act & similar legislation that would force FDA to comply with existing labeling standards for milk and other dairy products.