BAYER U.S. LLC

• HB STRATEGIES $800,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
• BALLARD PARTNERS, LLC $630,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
• MERCURY PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LLC $450,000 Outside firm · 6 filings
• THE PETERSON GROUP INC $420,000 Outside firm · 7 filings
• RURAL AND AG POLICY CONSULTANTS $20,000 Outside firm · 6 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

• 2026 $1,040,000 12 filings
• 2025 $1,280,000 21 filings

• Agriculture 33
• Environment/Superfund 13
• Health Issues 7
• Pharmacy 7
• Manufacturing 6

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

• HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 17
• SENATE 17
• White House Office 11
• State, Dept of (DOS) 5
• Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) 2
• Executive Office of the President (EOP) 1

• BAYER AG Germany named on 1 filing · highest disclosed ownership 100% · largest disclosed contribution $0

Section 7 of the LD-2: a foreign company or government that owns part of the client, pays toward the lobbying, or benefits from it. Figures are the highest single disclosure across these filings, not a sum: the same stake is re-disclosed each quarter.