Agriculture Daily Digest – December 27, 2025

Your daily Agriculture & Agribusiness digest 🌱. From crops to livestock, here are today’s top updates.

1. Grains See Santa Claus Rally: Livestock Get a Lump of Coal – AgWeb
2. 5 Key Ag Policy Changes Farmers Should Watch in 2026 – AgWeb
3. Damage from Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka Estimated at $4.1 Billion – World Bank Group
4. Child employment in agriculture, male (% of male economically active children ages 7-14) – Other small states – World Bank Open Data
5. The Asia-Pacific Forest Invasive Species Network (APFISN) welcomes its new co-coordinator – Food and Agriculture Organization
6. Job Search – jobs.fao.org
7. 🇳🇬 Nigeria lacks framework to attract tractor leasing investments – Samuel
8. 🇳🇬 Nigeria pilots AI-enabled digital extension system to bridge farm advisory gap
9. 🇳🇬 SEC sets January 31 deadline for 2026 CMO registration renewal – Nairametrics
10. 🇳🇬 CPPE urges new NMDPRA, NUPRC CEOs to prioritise domestic refining and production growth – Nairametrics
11. Sinkholes in Turkey’s agricultural heartland fuel farmers’ concerns – Reuters
12. US farm agency lost 20,000 staff in first five months of Trump administration – Reuters
13. 🇳🇬 Liberian Senate Backs Agriculture Development Bank to Boost Rural Finance – allAfrica.com
14. 🇳🇬 Liberia: Nafaa Procures Locally Produced Rice for Staff Christmas Bonus – allAfrica.com
15. 3 Big Things Today, Dec. 26, 2025 – Successful Farming
16. How a Student’s Tractor Restoration Honored a Family Member’s Legacy – Successful Farming
17. 🇳🇬 Homepage | The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News – The Guardian Nigeria News
18. 🇳🇬 Edo govt says ₦939b 2026 budget targets jobs, roads and social services – The Guardian Nigeria News
19. 🇳🇬 Kano farmers narrate benefits of agricultural intervention project
20. 🇳🇬 ‘Subsidise agriculture, that’s how it works,’ ex-Botswana President Masisi urges Nigerian govt
21. 🇳🇬 Punch newspapers – Breaking News, Nigerian News & Top Stories – Punch Newspapers
22. 🇳🇬 How Nigeria can achieve food security— Olatunji David – Punch Newspapers
23. Democrats call for guardrails on farm aid, improved transparency – Agri-Pulse
24. Tim Gannon – Agri-Pulse
25. Agtech Seedlings: Bonsai Robotics secures $15M to advance automated fruit harvesters
26. Farmland loans for regenerative agriculture: FBN and Walton family launch ‘first-of-its-kind’ lending program
27. Maximize Yields and Savings with Proven Nutrient Strategies – AgWeb
28. The Soybean Rally Many Counted On — And The Selloff Few Expected – AgWeb
29. What Tariff Announcements Mean for Farmers and Fertilizer Costs – AgWeb
30. Grain and Livestock Rally Monday: Can the Markets Build on it? – AgWeb

That’s it for agriculture today 🚜. What sector excites you most — crops, livestock, or exports? 💬