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Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative Political Action Committee

Cooperative PAC FEC C00166348

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Influence at a glance · Jan 2025 – Sep 2026Jan 25 – Sep 26 How we count
PAC giving to candidates$353K
Cooperative lobbying, all issues $3.0M

Giving: FEC filings, net of refunds. Lobbying: the cooperative’s own LD-2 reports, all issues, rounded to the nearest $10,000 each quarter. Two different filers, same 21 months.Lobbying: all issues, rounded to the nearest $10,000. Two filers, same 21 months. This PAC gives money raised from the cooperative’s members; the cooperative itself can’t give to campaigns from its treasury.

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What they lobby on

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Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative reported federal lobbying in 8 of the last 8 quarters (Q4 2024 to Q3 2026), with its own in-house lobbyists. What follows is what the filings say it lobbied on, not which way.

Issue areas ranked by quarters filedQ4 24 → Q3 26

  • Agriculture8 of 88/8
  • Budget/Appropriations8 of 88/8
  • Environment/Superfund8 of 88/8
  • Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace8 of 88/8
  • Trade (domestic/foreign)8 of 88/8

No bills were named in this period. The filings describe issues without bill numbers.

From the filings

“US House and Senate Fiscal Year 2027 Agriculture Appropriations Act including but not limited to the US Sugar Program as described in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, sugarbeet research and funding, and funding for US Farm Programs.”
Q3 2026 filing · Budget/Appropriations
“Discussions with House and Senate on conservation programs.”
Q3 2026 filing · Environment/Superfund

Contacted as listed on the filings

  • U.S. House
  • U.S. Senate
  • AgricultureUSDA
  • Environmental Protection AgencyEPA
  • U.S. Trade RepresentativeUSTR

The House and Senate appear in every quarter; agencies in all 8 quarters.

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Source: Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (LD-2) by Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative, Senate Office of Public Records. Filings are due 20 days after each quarter ends.

From FEC filings: direct gifts this PAC reported, net of refunds · How we count

Gave directly to 151 sitting members of Congress and 5 other candidates in 2025–26.

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