Agriculture is rapidly emerging as a major vertical use case for 5G and the IoT, driven by need to feed dense populations, meet goals for environmental sustainability, and improve efficiency in the face of skilled labor shortages, among other factors. The term vertical farming has emerged to describe 3D production of crops or horticultural plants stacked up indoors in greenhouses, but could apply to an industry that will increasingly employ integrated IoT across its various domains. Although sometimes derided as primitive, agriculture has long been quick to employ mechanization, as in combine harvesting and then more recently automation. US agro and construction equipment maker John Deere prototyped its first self-driving tractor in 2003 well over a decade before first demonstration…