What happens when the roads we travel reveal more than the destinations we seek? If We Stayed in Our Lanes: Field Notes of an Agronomist on Nigeria's Roads and Farms is a journey through the landscapes, farms, markets, highways and unexpected realities that shape Nigerian agriculture. Drawing from years of travelling across the country as an agronomist, Gabriel Okeke takes readers beyond the field demonstrations and crop trials to the stories that rarely appear in agricultural reports and conference presentations. Along the way are farmers making difficult decisions, businesses navigating uncertainty, crops succeeding against the odds, and investments that reveal the fine line between ambition, expertise and costly mistakes. From greenhouse farms and vegetable fields to long stretches of Nigerian highways, this book explores the connection between agriculture and the larger systems surrounding it: transportation, infrastructure, markets, technology, human behaviour and the consequences of stepping outside our areas of competence. These are not simply stories about crops. They are stories about people. About decisions. About opportunities missed and lessons learned. About the surprising ways a journey to a farm can become a lesson about business, life and knowing when to stay in your lane—and when the lane itself needs to change. Part travelogue. Part agricultural field note. Part reflection on the journey, risk and the realities of food movement from farm to fork. If We Stayed in Our Lanes invites farmers, agribusiness professionals, entrepreneurs, development practitioners and curious readers to look again at the roads and fields around them—and perhaps see something they had previously overlooked.