Opinion: New-generation tools for smarter agriculture will not deliver if farmers cannot afford them.

At Schell Farms outside Sterling, Colorado, the smartest machine on the property never leaves the field. Cameras and ground-penetrating radar, designed in Israel, are bolted to a center pivot and scan the corn and soil on every pass. "When corn is 10 feet tall in July, you can't see what's happening in the middle of the circle," said Daniel Schell, a fourth-generation grower. "Having the pivot tell my phone, 'Hey, nozzle 14 on span 3 is clogged,' before the crop shows stress, that's huge." I came to northeastern Colorado as director of Innovation Diplomacy at HaMitbah, the Western Negev Innovation Authority, representing our region's full innovation coalition: Ofakim Municipality, the Eshkol Regional Council , Sapir Academic College's Tech and Innovation Departments, and 17 AgTech and WaterTech companies in our deal flow. Two food-security engines Logan County sits in one of the top agricultural regions in the United States, a farm economy worth more than $6 billion, with 1.38 million head of cattle. The Western Negev is Israel's food-security engine, growing 65% of the country's field crops in a desert that gets even less rain. Our challenges are the same: extreme climate, water scarcity, and labor shortages. The connection began with...

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