Agriculture Daily Digest – November 18, 2025

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

1. USDA searched for terms like ‘diversity,’ ‘climate modeling’ to target grants for cancellation – Reuters
2. USDA data blackout fuels uncertainty ahead of upcoming crop report – Reuters
3. 🇳🇬 African Development Bank Approves $310 Million Financial Package for Firstrand Bank to Scale Up Lending to MSMEs, Women Entrepreneurs and Agribusinesses in South Africa – allAfrica.com
4. 🇳🇬 South Africa Moves to Strengthen Beekeeping Sector – allAfrica.com
5. 🇳🇬 Ekiti, Bayero universities lead in submissions as Nigeria begins digitisation of students’ dissertations
6. 🇳🇬 Gates Foundation announces new commitment for smallholder farmers on frontlines of extreme weather
7. Soybeans Close Nearly 33¢ Higher | Monday, Nov. 17, 2025 – Successful Farming
8. USDA Data Dump Shows Minimal Soybean Sales to China – Successful Farming
9. Longest shutdown ends: USDA fully funded, SNAP benefits unlocked – Agri-Pulse
10. Latest Agricultural News & Farm Policy Updates | Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. – Agri-Pulse
11. 🇳🇬 Pope Leo names Nigeria among countries witnessing Christian persecution – Punch Newspapers
12. 🇳🇬 COP30: Presidency, Obi clash over 423-man Nigeria delegation – Punch Newspapers
13. DataBank – World Bank DataBank
14. Research and Publications – World Bank Group
15. 🇳🇬 Unlocking Nigeria’s cassava promise: Scaling high quality cassava flour production
16. 🇳🇬 FG mobilises 80,000 farmers for ₦160bn wheat production push
17. 🇳🇬 HOMEF, HEDA train journalists on industrial animal agriculture reporting – The Guardian Nigeria News
18. 🇳🇬 Agro allied firm launches N235b public offer to boost oil palm industry – The Guardian Nigeria News
19. Agtech Seedlings: Bonsai Robotics secures $15M to advance automated fruit harvesters
20. Farmland loans for regenerative agriculture: FBN and Walton family launch ‘first-of-its-kind’ lending program
21. Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security 2025 “Digital solutions for reducing risks and impacts” Opening Statement – Food and Agriculture Organization
22. Disasters cost global agriculture $3.26 trillion over three decades, FAO report reveals – Food and Agriculture Organization
23. Cattle Rally Despite Lower Brazil Tariffs: Soybeans Lead Grains Higher on China Bean Buys – AgWeb
24. Second Stage of Disaster Relief Program Going Into Effect – AgWeb
25. 🇳🇬 Tantalizers signs five-year multimillion-dollar deal to export prawns, shrimps to US buyer – Nairametrics
26. 🇳🇬 Meet 9 owners of popular hotels in South-South Nigeria – Nairametrics
27. Trump tariff rollback offers relief for Indian farmers – Reuters
28. Peru says new US tariff exemption includes about 100 food products – Reuters
29. Canada eyes fresh start in trade talks with India, says minister Sidhu – Reuters
30. Highlights of US framework trade deals with Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador and Guatemala – Reuters

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