Land O'Lakes

Land O'Lakes is a member-owned agricultural cooperative based in Arden Hills, Minnesota, focusing on the dairy industry. The coop states that it has about 3200 producer-members, 1000 member-cooperatives, and about 9000 employees who process and distribute products for about 300,000 agricultural producers; handling 12 billion pounds of milk annually. The coop is one of the largest producers of butter and cheese in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

Information

Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's September 30, 2012 filing.
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  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $339,585
    Total Spent:
    $373,565
    Cash on Hand:
    $7,355
    Debts:
    $0

Standardized Donation Information

covers through June 2012. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.

  • Top Recipients

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  • State vs. Federal

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  • Top PAC Recipients

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View all campaign finance data for Land O'Lakes Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Lobbying

$1,430,000 Spent
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Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers through Q2, 2012

Lobbying On Behalf of Land O'Lakes

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    Russell Group $300,000
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Agriculture,
    • Finance,
    • Clean Air & Water,
    • Fed Budget & Appropriations,
    • Labor, Antitrust & Workplace,
    • Trade,
    • Trucking & Shipping,
    • Immigration,
    • Advertising,
    • Chemical Industry
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    H.R.872 Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011
    H.R.2018 Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011
    H.R.3062 Dairy Security Act of 2011
    S.1682 Dairy Advancement Act of 2011
    H.R.4173 Prevent Iran from Acquiring Nuclear Weapons and Stop War Through Diplomacy Act
    H.R.2164 Legal Workforce Act
    H.R.2847 American Specialty Agriculture Act
    H.R.2868 Unemployed Workers Hiring Act of 2011
    H.R.4173 Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act of 2010
    H.R.1633 Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011
View all lobbying data for Land O'Lakes Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

21 Mentions; 1 Submissions
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated from Regulations.gov on September 27, 2011

The tables show occurrences of "Land O'Lakes" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

  • Documents Submitted by the Organization
    • Submissions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 1 FMCSA Pilot Program on NAFTA Long-Haul Trucking Provisions 2011
  • Mentions in Document Text
    • Mentions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 11 FWS Removal of the U.S. Captive-bred Inter-subspecific crossed or generic Tiger From the Exemption to Register Under the Captive-bred Wildlife Regulations 2011
    • Toggle 7 NLRB Proposed rule amending representation-case procedures 2011
    • Toggle 5 APHIS Monsanto Co.; Availability of Petition, Plant Pest Risk Assessment, and Environmental Assessment for Determination of Nonregulated Status for Corn Genetically Engineered for Drought Tolerance 2011
    • Toggle 4 BOEM Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Chukchi Sea Planning Area Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193 2011
    • Toggle 3 APHIS Horse Protection Act; Petition for Amendments to Regulations 2011
    • Toggle 2 NOAA Bluefin Tuna Bycatch Reduction in the Gulf of Mexico Pelagic Longline Fishery 2011
    • Toggle 2 EPA Approval and Promulgation of Implementation Plans, California 2007San Joaquin Valley 8-hour Ozone Plan and 2007 State Strategy 2011
    • Toggle 2 EPA Partial Approval and Partial Disapproval of Air Quality Implementation Plans; California; San Joaquin Valley; Reasonably Available Control Technology for Ozone 2011
    • Toggle 1 NOAA Proposed Rule to Implement the 2010 International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) Shark Recommendations 2011
    • Toggle 1 FMCSA Pilot Program on NAFTA Long-Haul Trucking Provisions 2011

Federal Spending

8 grants
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Federal grants, contracts and loans are reported by federal agencies using the FPDS and FAADS systems. The data is made available to the public at USASpending.gov. Please note that the completeness and quality of the data varies greatly by agency.

Only grants, contracts and loans with amounts over $1 million are shown.

Because company names are not reported in a standardized manner, we cannot reliably determine the company receiving the contract or award. The results shown here are based on a search for the company name. Individual records may be missed or erroneously included because of name variations. For more information, please see our federal spending methodology page.

covers through USASpending.gov's Sept. 15, 2012 release for contracts and Oct. 19, 2012 for grants.

Note: Company names in federal spending data are not standardized. The table below is included only as a sample of what is available in the data and has not been reviewed for accuracy or completeness. To investigate the data further, use the links at the bottom of the table.

Type Recipient Name Year Agency Description Amount
grant
 Land O'Lakes 2012 Agency For International Development RWANDA DAIRY COMPETITIVENESS PHASE II $5,270,935
grant
 Land O'Lakes 2011 Agency For International Development This project promotes livelihoods in Zimbabwe $3,000,000
grant
 Land O'Lakes 2011 Agency For International Development This project promotes livelihoods in Zimbabwe $3,000,000
grant
 Land O'Lakes 2012 Agency For International Development ZAMBIA FODDER PROJECT $1,997,405
grant
 Land O'Lakes 2012 Agency For International Development ZIMBABWE LIVESTOCK FOR ACCELERATED RECOVERY AND IMPROVED RESILIENCY $1,984,473
grant
 Land O'Lakes 2011 Agency For International Development USAID ASSISTANCE $1,750,000
grant
 Land O'Lakes 2011 Agency For International Development BUILDING RESILIENCY IN SOUTHERN/WESTERN ZAMBIA WITH COMMUNITY-BASED LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION/MARKETING $1,386,332
grant
 Land O'Lakes 2012 Agency For International Development INNOVATIONS IN GENDER EQUALITY $1,299,219
View all grant & loan data for Land O'Lakes View all contract data for Land O'Lakes Sources: USASpending.gov

Advisory Committees

2 people on 2 committees
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Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "Land O'Lakes" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle Surface Transportation Board 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle Department of Agriculture 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for Land O'Lakes