Mr Dyson is cleaning up..!

Longlowdog

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Aberdeenshire

• Feb 17, 2013

• #21

Fortunes are made in one generation and gone in three. It has long been the way that estates rose, were improved and then dissolved and rebuilt again and again. I wish the man well if he is revitalising an area at his personal expense.

 

Clive

Staff Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Feb 17, 2013

• #22

Maybe he will start a forum soon !

 

The_Swede

Member

Arable Farmer

• Feb 17, 2013

• #23

Longlowdog said:

Fortunes are made in one generation and gone in three. It has long been the way that estates rose, were improved and then dissolved and rebuilt again and again. I wish the man well if he is revitalising an area at his personal expense.

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Hear Hear, +1 ... or.... in this exciting modern farming forum world i'll also click the 'like' button!

 

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Pilatus

Member

Location

cotswolds

• Feb 19, 2018

• #24

I wonder if Rainthorpe Farms will become part of Dyson land portfolio. Is it the sort of land which Dyson would be interested in purchasing?

 

76masseyman

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Location

Lincolncestershire

• Feb 19, 2018

• #25

MX7 said:

I wonder if Rainthorpe Farms will become part of Dyson land portfolio. Is it the sort of land which Dyson would be interested in purchasing?

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Maybe some, but I reckon it'll go as individual lots.
Some decent sized neighbours all round.

 

Henarar

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Somerset

• Feb 19, 2018

• #26

greedy bugger

 

Doc

Member

Livestock Farmer

• Feb 19, 2018

• #27

Intelligent and enterprising bloke does well for himself off his own ideas and endeavours, the establishment, in this case other land holders, don’t like the ‘Jonny come lately’ taking their public funding. Because... well he’s not one of them that deserves it, they’ve been doing it for generations
You couldn’t make this sh!t up anywhere else.

 

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renewablejohn

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Location

lancs

• Feb 19, 2018

• #28

76masseyman said:

Maybe some, but I reckon it'll go as individual lots.
Some decent sized neighbours all round.

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Dont think it will come to market as it will already be spoken for.

Was always amazed with this when I heard of it.

 

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franklin

New Member

• Feb 19, 2018

• #29

76masseyman said:

Maybe some, but I reckon it'll go as individual lots.
Some decent sized neighbours all round.

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I reckon it will go to one buyer.

Not me though.

 

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Agrivator

Member

• Feb 19, 2018

• #30

caveman said:

You may jest.
Great innovation has always come from outsiders looking in.

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Give us a ferinstance.

 

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Pilatus

Member

Location

cotswolds

• Feb 19, 2018

• #31

Henarar said:

greedy bugger

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If he is greedy , you will class any one else that buys it as greedy , as to buy it anyone will already have a lot of land or money behind them.
No problem with Sir James Dyson,seems very genuine compared to Sir Philip
Green who so say raided the staff pension fund!!!

 

Henarar

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Somerset

• Feb 19, 2018

• #32

He don't want the land he don't need the land he is just hiding his money
Greedy bugger

 

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digger64

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• Feb 19, 2018

• #33

Henarar said:

He don't want the land he don't need the land he is just hiding his money
Greedy bugger

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Are you any different ?

 

An Gof

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Location

Cornwall

• Feb 20, 2018

• #34

Henarar said:

He don't want the land he don't need the land he is just hiding his money
Greedy bugger

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Hard to hide it if you buy a farm and farm it in hand.
You sure there isn’t a small chip on your shoulder

 

Henarar

Member

Livestock Farmer

Location

Somerset

• Feb 20, 2018

• #35

An Gof said:

Hard to hide it if you buy a farm and farm it in hand.
You sure there isn’t a small chip on your shoulder

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I don't give a sh!t about any chip
he is a greedy bugger

 

Henarar

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Somerset

• Feb 20, 2018

• #36

digger64 said:

Are you any different ?

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you think he would swop ? what he owns in the way of land for what I own ?
he is a greedy bugger

 

Ffermer Bach

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Carmarthenshire, West Wales

• Feb 20, 2018

• #37

wobs said:

these Billionaire types of investors should be made to undergo a fit and proper test.the likes of sitting a NVQ 2 in Horticulture or Agriculture,only then will they have an understanding of what they intend to buy.

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I dont know if it is still the same now, but when I lived in Denmark, anyone could buy a farm, however to run it, you had to have a green card ( NCA in Ag equivalent, plus 3 years experience farming, 2 of which could not be on the home farm). I wonder if they still have this rule? I was told it was bought in to stop rich Germans buying all the farm land in Denmark. And obviously, the college course had to be done in a Danish college. I think there was another rule as well, you had to have permission from the local council to split a farm house from the land, and every piece of land or farm sold, had to be offered to the smaller farmers in the area first, if they wanted to expand, before it could be sold to anyone else. Not sure if that is still in force? I would be interested to know?

 

thesilentone

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Cumbria

• Feb 20, 2018

• #38

Great to see a bit of good old fashioned jealousy and envy coming out (que the ' I'm not jealous ' responses)

Please don't shoot the Golden Goose, Mr Dyson is a very wealthy man, something we all aspire to be (que the ' I don't want to be wealthy, as long as I have enough to get by responses) he is British and proud of it.

Thankfully it is not Drug Dealers or Oligarch's that are buying our land, so welcome the likes of Dyson, we need more like him.

I accept it's tough if you've had a eye on the neighbouring farm for years, then his like come along and sweep you aside, but that's life. But, farmers are not to well known for there gestures of generosity where money is concerned.

 

Henarar

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Somerset

• Feb 20, 2018

• #39

or he is just a greedy bugger

 

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Bongodog

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• Feb 20, 2018

• #40

Henarar said:

He don't want the land he don't need the land he is just hiding his money
Greedy bugger

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Thats the problem isn't it, the advantages that allow you to pass the entire farm on to the next generation tax free, also encourage exceedingly wealthy people from outside the industry to buy up vast swathes of land to save their children inheritance tax.