Agricultural automation and precision farming are increasingly coalescing around wireless connectivity and especially 5G, with the promise of alleviating labor shortages in the sector, while helping improve food security. But one major caveat is that a lot of the technology is still too expensive for small farmers and developing countries. The issue is less the technology and more the need for a financing or provisioning model in a sector ruled by small margins, and which contributes far less to global GDP than its importance might suggest. At least the stock of wireless agricultural technology is rising, as witnessed at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where a number of vendors in the field were showing off automation…