Agriculture Daily Digest – October 24, 2025

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

1. AgZen, Corteva Team up on AI-Powered, Retrofit Sprayer Tech – AgWeb
2. Farm Journal Survey Signals 2025 National Corn Yield Could Fall Short of 2024 – AgWeb
3. Global deforestation slows, but forests remain under pressure, FAO report shows – Food and Agriculture Organization
4. Home | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Food and Agriculture Organization
5. 🇳🇬 Okomu Oil vs. Presco Plc – 9-month 2025 results: Who performed better? – Nairametrics
6. 🇳🇬 Dangote announces plan to expand refinery capacity to 1.4 million b/d, set to become world’s largest – Nairametrics
7. What’s in USDA’s New Plan to ‘Fortify the American Beef Industry’? – Successful Farming
8. Grains Up, Cattle Weaker | Thursday, October 23, 2025 – Successful Farming
9. 🇳🇬 BATN Foundation invest in food security with kilns, ponds to smallholder farmers – The Guardian Nigeria News
10. 🇳🇬 World Food Day: Spectra tasks FG on support for local farmers, equitable food distribution – The Guardian Nigeria News
11. 🇳🇬 Punch newspapers – Breaking News, Nigerian News & Top Stories – Punch Newspapers
12. 🇳🇬 Lagos honours BATN Foundation for championing agricultural growth – Punch Newspapers
13. 🇳🇬 SPECIAL REPORT: Ondo’s bold palm oil push hampered by outdated practices
14. 🇳🇬 Plateau’s Alfalfa Project: Model for sustainable livestock farming in Nigeria – Experts
15. Trump spars with cattle producers, claiming credit for strong prices – Agri-Pulse
16. USDA to distribute commodity program payments, reopen FSA operations – Agri-Pulse
17. Agtech Seedlings: Bonsai Robotics secures $15M to advance automated fruit harvesters
18. Farmland loans for regenerative agriculture: FBN and Walton family launch ‘first-of-its-kind’ lending program
19. Mexican ag minister to discuss with US counterpart opening border to cattle amid screwworm outbreak – Reuters
20. Trump administration plans to distribute farmer aid amid shutdown – Reuters

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