The other Dyson empire, measured in acres

James Dyson, known for vacuum cleaners, is also one of Britain's largest landowners with 36,000 acres and a cutting-edge robotic strawberry farm in Lincolnshire. The glasshouse uses 16 robotic arms with machine vision, UV mould-killing robots, Ferris-wheel crop systems, and an on-site anaerobic digester — effectively a self-contained robotics and energy R&D lab that pays for itself in fruit. The piece traces how Dyson's engineering competencies (motors, batteries, vision, robotics) flow directly from consumer products into agriculture, while also examining the financial logic: farmland as a tax-sheltered asset class, £5bn+ in dividends funnelled through a Singapore holding company, and millions in UK agricultural subsidies. A pointed irony runs throughout — Dyson championed Brexit, which cut the seasonal farm labour supply, then built robots to replace those workers. Now proposed inheritance tax reforms on agricultural land threaten his estate with a ~£120m bill, making him the loudest critic of a loophole he benefited from enormously.

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