Agriculture Daily Digest – November 19, 2025

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

1. Latest Agricultural News & Farm Policy Updates | Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. – Agri-Pulse
2. Longest shutdown ends: USDA fully funded, SNAP benefits unlocked – Agri-Pulse
3. 🇳🇬 N1.2trn Agric Probe: Reps panel threatens bench warrant against BOA, ARCN chiefs
4. 🇳🇬 Benue government assembles tractors, improved seedlings for dry season farming
5. Open Knowledge Repository – World Bank Group
6. Projects & Operations – World Bank Group
7. USDA Launches Stage Two of $16 Billion Disaster Relief for Farmers – Successful Farming
8. USDA ‘Crunching Numbers’ for Potential Tariff Relief, Official Says ‘Lots’ Changed During Shutdown – Successful Farming
9. 🇳🇬 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
10. 🇳🇬 African Development Bank’s $211.4 Million Investment to Enhance Agriculture and Create Jobs in Eastern Angola – allAfrica.com
11. Disasters cost global agriculture $3.26 trillion over three decades, FAO report reveals – Food and Agriculture Organization
12. Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security 2025 “Digital solutions for reducing risks and impacts” Opening Statement – Food and Agriculture Organization
13. 🇳🇬 COP30: Presidency, Obi clash over 423-man Nigeria delegation – Punch Newspapers
14. 🇳🇬 NADF, IDH, BOA partner to support women agripreneurs – Punch Newspapers
15. Second Stage of Disaster Relief Program Going Into Effect – AgWeb
16. New WOTUS Proposal Could Reduce Red Tape for Farmers and Ranchers – AgWeb
17. 🇳🇬 Unlocking Nigeria’s cassava promise: Scaling high quality cassava flour production
18. 🇳🇬 FG mobilises 80,000 farmers for ₦160bn wheat production push
19. 🇳🇬 HOMEF, HEDA train journalists on industrial animal agriculture reporting – The Guardian Nigeria News
20. 🇳🇬 Campaign against hunger unites farmers, other stakeholders – The Guardian Nigeria News
21. China seeks more cooperation with Russia in energy, agriculture – Reuters
22. USDA searched for terms like ‘diversity,’ ‘climate modeling’ to target grants for cancellation – Reuters
23. 🇳🇬 Lagos postpones rehabilitation works on Lekki-Ajah corridor – Nairametrics
24. 🇳🇬 NAFDAC’s sachet alcohol ban could wipe out N1.9 trillion investment, MAN warns – Nairametrics
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. USDA to open second phase of disaster relief program – Agri-Pulse
28. Trump cuts tariffs on ag products, fertilizers – Agri-Pulse
29. Nation’s top ag county posts a record $9 billion in sales – Agri-Pulse
30. Daybreak Nov. 18: China may have bought fewer soybeans since Trump-Xi meeting than believed – Agri-Pulse

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