A powerful technological revolution in farming is underway

Your starter for 10 - can you name a highly computerised and technically advanced vehicle currently on sale in the UK?

- By Adam Henson

If your answer is a Tesla, BMW or another futuristic electric vehicle packed with in-car infotainment, parking cameras and digital mirrors then you're probably in the majority.

But you could just have easily suggested the latest tractor or combine harvester and scored top marks. Modern farming requires the best machinery for the job, and it might surprise you how much has changed inside the average agricultural vehicle in recent years.

There's a big debate about self-driving cars and at what point they will be allowed on public roads in this country. But how many people know that driverless tractors are being used on British farms? Steered by GPS, the satellite navigation system used to track mobile phones, they are a game-changer in the way we produce food. Harper Adams University in Shropshire achieved a world first when researchers successfully planted, tended and harvested a crop using only drones and automated vehicles.