Internet Farmers Get A Chance At The Real Thing

from National Public Radio

A popular game on Facebook — called Farmville — has turned tens of millions of people into Internet farmers. They plant crops, tend livestock and make other agricultural decisions. A website in the U.K. called MyFarm is allowing virtual farmers to get a taste of reality, by letting them help run a true brick-and-soil farm.

Broadcast Dates

• Morning Edition, May 9, 2011