Mr Dyson is cleaning up..!

[Farmer Wally]

Word on the street is that Mr James(vacuum cleaner)Dyson is spending his billions on buying land, he's said to have been very busy across Lincolnshire snapping up land. The rumour is that he is looking for someone to manage 17,000 acres.

Do you think that big hitting business men with money to burn are over inflating land prices because they don't really care how much they pay for the land. Most of them are buying land for tax reasons not because they have a love for farming!

Are mega large farms ruining the industry and preventing newbie farmers from buying in..?

Should the government have a limit on how big farms can be especially if the money is coming from outside the industry for tax reasons..?

discuss....

 

[Badshot]

Well with 17000 acres he better get someone good to manage it or it'll empty some of his savings a bit quick.

 

[wobs]

makes his wealth overseas now doesn't he?

 

[JohnGalway]

Never thought a lot of his vacuum cleaner, it didn't lose suction because it didn't have any to begin with.

 

[Hesston4860s]

Word is he wants 30,000 acres and he's just bought some more and rumour has it paid £13k an acre.

 

[wobs]

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.

 

[Rob Holmes]

But who would pay over £200 for a desk fan???

 

[wobs]

But who would pay over £200 for a desk fan???

anyone with an expense budget.

 

[masseyjack]

He's not bought any that i know of round here but i have heard he's been buying lots, there's an old woman from dorset who payed over 7 grand an acre for a neighbouring farm to us, if the other neighbour sells up then i'd imagine they'll be keen to buy that as well as it fits nicely. So we've got no chance really of buying a bit that fits in nicely, which is a shame. It lets the big boys who contract farm the rest of it have a bit more.

 

[Banana Bar]

Good on him, made stacks of cash outside the UK and brought it home.

BB

 

[rob1]

It won't make him much profit when the sfp is limited,unless perhaps he has invented a combine that sucks all the grain and weeds up as it goes

 

[caveman]

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

 

[Honest john]

If you where trying to protect wealth in this age of printing paper money where would you park it ??
They can't print any more land and no IHT to pass it down a generation.
He may just come up with a Great Idear that we will all be using in years to come.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Why shouldn't he buy land if he wants to? Nothing to stop any of us going and buying a factory. Plenty of farmers buy houses to rent out or other business ventures. I knew a farmer once who had money burning a hole in his pocket as he sold some land for development and he went to buy a new BMW and ended up buying the dealership as well. Dyson has done well and my Animal hoover of his does a wonderful job and his air blade hand dryers are so much better than the pathetic offerings that are to be found in so many pub loos etc that are as useful as a chocolate fireguard. And yes if he starts taking an interest in the industry we may see more innovation....

 

[rusty]

He has bought the farm in Lincolnshire where the proposed Nocton 8000 cow dairy was going to be built. He very quickly bought another large arable farm next door. This won't have come cheap as it has a brand new large bio digester on it.
Friend of mine who works on the second farm has been down to Dysons estate in Wiltshire. Money no object place with millions been spent on landscaping.

 

[Longlowdog]

If you don't think folk should be allowed to buy themselves into too big a farm...does it also follow that I should not be allowed to buy as I'm too small to be a proper farm as I only own a few acres? Who will dictate what is a proper size of farm? Free trade or over bearing government, there is no middle ground. If Dyson uses the economies of scale, makes a profit and pays taxes what is there to complain about? Certainly the vendors of this 13k ground will not be complaining or demanding to sell to the underdog/under bidder.

 

[Blue.]

He has bought the farm in Lincolnshire where the proposed Nocton 8000 cow dairy was going to be built. He very quickly bought another large arable farm next door. This won't have come cheap as it has a brand new large bio digester on it.
Friend of mine who works on the second farm has been down to Dysons estate in Wiltshire. Money no object place with millions been spent on landscaping.

He bought the ltd company also but changed the name from nocton dairies pretty quick.

 

[The_Swede]

To be fair to him a fortune is being spent on his Dodington Park Estate in South Glos - mainly uses local contractors and tradesmen from what I can see. Although his continuing buying up of land previously sold off by the estate has undoubtedly 'altered' the local property market!

 

[JP1]

He still has the same costs to farm it, lease it or improve it. Good luck to him. Good to see some familiar faces from this thread JohnGalway and neighbour Banana Bar. Like your avatar Jason too

 

[The_Swede]

Cheers JP, thats one of our old Wiltshire Horn Rams and his off-season Texel friend 'The General'.. im an ex BFF occasional poster too 'Barley09'.

Its clear Mr D has no interest in the relative profitability of it all from where i'm stood, there are new build stone walls and very high quality hedge laying jobs going on at the moment - literally tens of thousands being spent on what are small blocks of marginal land IMHO.