i thought Mr Dyson only made vacuum cleaners

Timmer

Member
I was surprised they couldn’t find anyone with less than 1500 acres to be the “small farmer”. Plenty in the South West with hundreds rather than thousands. He sounded like my old college lecturers years ago who use to say you have to get big and nothing under 1000 acres makes money. If that was the case there would be very few farmers down here!
 

RobFZS

Member
I was surprised they couldn’t find anyone with less than 1500 acres to be the “small farmer”. Plenty in the South West with hundreds rather than thousands. He sounded like my old college lecturers years ago who use to say you have to get big and nothing under 1000 acres makes money. If that was the case there would be very few farmers down here!
We're all subsidy junkies that can only afford a Henry hoover in the sub 150 acre category :(
 

pine_guy

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Location
North Cumbria

You need to note that that report dates back to 2002. R & D was kept at Malmesbury, which now invests £7million A WEEK and has grown considerably, to the extent that he has run out of room there and has bought RAF Hullavington which is to be redeveloped as a new technology campus and will employ many thousands more.

As an ex Dyson employee, I can tell you the decision to move manufacturing abroad was not an easy one. The site at malmesnury was not big enough and the council would not allow them to build on some adjoining land they owned. It was sold off and ironically now is a housing estate. Classic gov failing to support our own industries.
 

Badshot

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Location
Kent
As an ex Dyson employee, I can tell you the decision to move manufacturing abroad was not an easy one. The site at malmesnury was not big enough and the council would not allow them to build on some adjoining land they owned. It was sold off and ironically now is a housing estate. Classic gov failing to support our own industries.
Bloody nimbys
I went past Malmesbury a month or so back.
It's not exactly obtrusive.
He also gives the locals discount on hoovers I believe.
 

had e nuff

Member
Location
Durham
So if you were earning what he is earning and I presume you have an interest and n farming??....what would you do?? Just hand it all out to the tax man?? I know what I’d be doing. Folks in this country seem to knock those who are successful! Jealousy most likely.
So what would you do differently??
I'd pay the tax and enjoy the rest. Will still be plenty left for a holiday and a pint or 2.
 

bluebell

Member
more people like mr dyson should be supported, because one they are british and two they are makers of things? did any one watch the last fred dibnah when he went round some of what remained of our great engineering past? this i think personally is one of our greatest problems as a country, unlike germany we dont as a country value enough people who either invent or want to make things?
 

bluebell

Member
the other thing on a wider issue of the future of agriculture in great britian, its alright in the vast arable lands, you have the choice if you want to reintroduce keeping livestock, the very reason many packed up because it was to much hassel? what about the thousands of farms on the hills they have no choice they cant decide to grow crops?
 

bluebell

Member
and who would you like to own it the chinese they are buying up most of the assetts of the UK? personally speaking i think farms when sold should never have been allowed to be split to obtain the best prices but its to late? around where i live you now have one large farmer if you call a farmer with thousands of acres a farmer, farming what were six or more individual farms? will their be a revolt
 

Lincsman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
I thought James Dyson only made vacuum cleaners.. but he is also the biggest landowner in the country and I was very surprised when he said he was not making any profit... as was just shown on countryfile

Made me feel great, my profit is double the Basic payment as an average, so my little bit is paying better than his thousands of acres put together.
 

turbo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
lincs
Made me feel great, my profit is double the Basic payment as an average, so my little bit is paying better than his thousands of acres put together.
If you saw the money he is investing in infrastructure you will see how he is not making any money but in years to come it will pay dividends for him. I know of one farm he has bought and has drained the whole lot within 18 months put new roads in and updated the building and now that farm looks a treat
 

Ashtree

Member
I think he should stick to farming. His vacuum cleaners are rubbish. If there was a red tractor scheme for vacuum cleaners, he would be in trouble with the box tickers!!
 
Location
Cleveland
As an ex Dyson employee, I can tell you the decision to move manufacturing abroad was not an easy one. The site at malmesnury was not big enough and the council would not allow them to build on some adjoining land they owned. It was sold off and ironically now is a housing estate. Classic gov failing to support our own industries.
Not what it says here

Quote from article “

he had been forced to shift production to Malaysia because of soaring manufacturing costs in Britain, with direct labour costs doubling in 10 years, partly because of the need to pay high wages in an area around Swindon of zero unemployment.


Full article...


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Derrick Hughes

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Location
Ceredigion
What is the problem, Mr Dyson could be the next Jethro Tull, or Cherrington, or Hosier, or Patterson, or Harry Ferguson.
Dyson is an IDEAS man with money. Some of his ideas will be daft and cost him a lot of money, a few will be great and benefit all of us
Exactly .
I don't know what's worse ,having to put up with their nonsense or trying to make them see the light
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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