Agriculture Daily Digest – September 18, 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. 🇳🇬 FG, FAO target $3.14bn to boost agriculture, achieve food sovereignty
4. 🇳🇬 FG unveils new agric investment incentives
5. 🇳🇬 Enugu state partners Songhai, Tribu seal N100 billion deal to revive Heneke Farm
6. 🇳🇬 Bank of Agriculture secures $1 billion to boost smallholder farming in Nigeria
7. 🇳🇬 Xymbolic visits NIFOR, Okomu to advance Palm City project – The Guardian Nigeria News
8. 🇳🇬 Oyebanji to attend 2025 Marketing Edge Awards in Lagos – The Guardian Nigeria News
9. 5 questions about Trump’s tariff plans
10. Meat giant JBS breaks into the egg business
11. Cargill, Foster Farms to close turkey plants as demand wanes
12. Zeldin is confirmed as the new EPA administrator. What’s next?
13. Smithfield falls short of expectations in muted IPO
14. US detects rare bird flu strain H5N9 in poultry for first time
15. Trump freeze on federal grants and loans sparks confusion in agriculture
16. Egg prices could break more records in 2025
17. Experts seek cheap credits for farmers
18. Nigeria’s Onion farmers lose billions of naira to substandard seeds
19. Nigeria’s food import bill jump 33% in one year
20. FG, FAO unveils $3.14 billion investment to boost Agriculture in Nigeria

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