Agriculture Daily Digest – September 08, 2025

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

1. Agtech Seedlings: Bonsai Robotics secures $15M to advance automated fruit harvesters
2. Farmland loans for regenerative agriculture: FBN and Walton family launch ‘first-of-its-kind’ lending program
3. Policy blocks Nigeria from $10.5bn animal waste market
4. Afreximbank, Bank of Agriculture sign $1bn deal for smallholder farmers
5. 5 questions about Trump’s tariff plans
6. Meat giant JBS breaks into the egg business
7. Cargill, Foster Farms to close turkey plants as demand wanes
8. Zeldin is confirmed as the new EPA administrator. What’s next?
9. Smithfield falls short of expectations in muted IPO
10. US detects rare bird flu strain H5N9 in poultry for first time
11. Trump freeze on federal grants and loans sparks confusion in agriculture
12. Egg prices could break more records in 2025
13. Agbeyewa Farms hosts Brazilian technical partners, showcases Nigeria’s cassava revolution
14. FG to start mapping shea trees in 21 states to support export ban
15. Olam Agri, IFAD, others partner to build sustainable sesame supply chain

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