2025 first_quarter Filing

Lobby on the 2025 Farm Bill and inclusion of favorable provisions in the research title, disaster title, marketing title and other miscellaneous items important to commercial beekeeping, honey bees and specialty crops. Lobby USDA to preserve researchers and research dollars at ARS; Lobby USDA to unfreeze payments under the Emergency Livestock Assistance Program; Lobby USDA to follow the NEPA process on releases of bio control agents on Tallow.

Lobby Congress, USTR and the White House on matters related to Anti-Dumping Cases and tariffs on imported honey. Lobby Congress on re-introducing legislation related to collection of duties and payments owed to industry stakeholders at Customs.