Agriculture Daily Digest – October 23, 2025

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

1. 🇳🇬 NALDA signs pact on mega farm settlement project in Kwara – The Guardian Nigeria News
2. 🇳🇬 World Food Day: Spectra tasks FG on support for local farmers, equitable food distribution – The Guardian Nigeria News
3. Agtech Seedlings: Bonsai Robotics secures $15M to advance automated fruit harvesters
4. Farmland loans for regenerative agriculture: FBN and Walton family launch ‘first-of-its-kind’ lending program
5. 🇳🇬 CGT: Foreign investors are frustrated with Taiwo Oyedele – Nairametrics
6. 🇳🇬 Lagos abattoirs: 8 major slaughterhouses powering N328 billion beef market – Nairametrics
7. 🇳🇬 One missing, two injured as robbers attack Osun varsity hostels – Punch Newspapers
8. 🇳🇬 Punch newspapers – Breaking News, Nigerian News & Top Stories – Punch Newspapers
9. Trump administration plans to distribute farmer aid amid shutdown – Reuters
10. France bans cattle exports, bullfighting as lumpy skin virus spreads – Reuters
11. 🇳🇬 Food and Agriculture — Home – allAfrica.com
12. 🇳🇬 Zimbabwe: Grain Marketing Board Gets U.S.$10m to Pay Farmers – allAfrica.com
13. 🇳🇬 Young agripreneurs will drive Nigeria’s agricultural transformation – Kyari
14. 🇳🇬 WACOT gets €1.26m grant to empower 3,500 sesame farmers
15. Beef From Argentina? ‘A Betrayal of the American Rancher,’ Farmers Tell Trump – Successful Farming
16. Trump Urges U.S. Cattle Ranchers to Lower Prices as He Touts Tariffs – Successful Farming
17. How Current Weather Trends Are Shaping Global Grain Production – AgWeb
18. Farm Journal Survey Signals 2025 National Corn Yield Could Fall Short of 2024 – AgWeb
19. Global deforestation slows, but forests remain under pressure, FAO report shows – Food and Agriculture Organization
20. Home | Global Forest Resources Assessments – Food and Agriculture Organization

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