Farming into the future

Farming into the future

Author: BBC Radio 5 Live August 18, 2026 Duration: 51:26

Sean Farrington speaks to a farm tech company trying to solve the double-whammy of drought and increasing costs which are impacting farmers this year.

Elsewhere, we look at the potential consequences of Meta's child privacy trial, which accuses the owner of Instagram and Facebook of violating federal and state privacy laws for children.

Also would you like to have a go at being Prime Minister? Well, a new mobile game has been storming the charts - and it allows you to do just that. We'll hear from the game's designer.

Elsewhere we'll hear why declining summer school student numbers might be back for the wider UK economy.


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