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Texas Farm Bureau

Texas Farm Bureau Agfund

Membership group PAC FEC C00214981

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Influence at a glance · Jan 2025 – Sep 2026Jan 25 – Sep 26 How we count
PAC giving to candidates$480K
Membership group lobbying, all issues $3.3M

Giving: FEC filings, net of refunds. Lobbying: the membership group’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 membership group’s members; the membership group itself can’t give to campaigns from its treasury.

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What they lobby on

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Texas Farm Bureau 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
  • Disaster Planning/Emergencies8 of 88/8
  • Immigration8 of 88/8
  • Trade (domestic/foreign)5 of 85/8
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.) 4 of 8 · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code 3 of 8 · 3 more · Show all 10
  • Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)4 of 84/8
  • Taxation/Internal Revenue Code3 of 83/8
  • Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace2 of 82/8
  • Natural Resources2 of 82/8
  • Animals1 of 81/8

Bills named in the filings 3 bills, this period

From the filings

“TFB advocated to reform the agricultural guest worker program for farmers and ranchers. TFB is seeking comprehensive reform to our agricultural guest worker program, known as H-2A. TFB is working to address issues in the legislation to ensure the bill addresses the needs of producers.”
Q3 2026 filing · Immigration
“TFB advocated for FY2026 appropriations to provide critical funding to combat the New World Screwworm and to continue pressing the urgency of controlling the NWS in Mexico to keep it out of the U.S.”
Q3 2026 filing · Budget/Appropriations

Contacted as listed on the filings

  • U.S. House
  • U.S. Senate

The House and Senate appear in every quarter.

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Source: Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (LD-2) by Texas Farm Bureau, 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 61 sitting members of Congress and 12 other candidates in 2025–26.

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