Why James Dyson Is Buying Up Britain's Farmland? Inside James Dyson.

James Dyson — the man who invented the vacuum cleaner — is Britain's biggest farmer, quietly buying up British farmland across Lincolnshire. Thirty-six thousand acres of British farmland. One owner. Sir James Dyson spent a decade quietly buying up British farmland across Lincolnshire, and on the published numbers he is now Britain's biggest farmer. That isn't a headline — it's his own company's filed accounts. Dyson Farming spans over 36,000 acres of arable land across Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset. Almost none of it was announced. It was assembled parcel by parcel, and you can follow it through the land registry. This is the full ledger. What the operation actually grows. What it received in farm subsidies from the public purse. And the piece of inheritance tax law called Agricultural Property Relief that quietly made British farmland the most efficient way in the country to pass on a large fortune. We walk through the 2024 Budget cap, the farmers who filled Whitehall with tractors, and what all of it means for who owns the land you drive past on the way to work. No accusations and no motive claims. Every arrangement described here is lawful and openly filed. Just the numbers, the rules, and an honest verdict at the end. WHO THIS IS FOR Anyone who follows British farming, UK land ownership, inheritance tax or rural policy — and anyone who has ever driven past a field and wondered who actually owns it. Topics covered: James Dyson, Dyson Farming, Lincolnshire, Carrington glasshouse, anaerobic digesters, arable land, farm subsidies, Basic Payment Scheme, delinked payments, Agricultural Property Relief, inheritance tax, land registry, Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995, farm business tenancies, 2024 Budget, UK farmland ownership, British land ownership ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTERS 00:00 The 36,000 Acres in Lincolnshire 02:25 Dyson Farming: Strawberries and Digesters 03:55 The Farm Subsidies 05:54 Agricultural Property Relief 08:21 The Tenant Farmers 10:29 The 2024 Budget: Farm Inheritance Tax 12:58 Brexit and Singapore 14:48 The Verdict: Who Owns the Land ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright Disclaimer We do not fully own the material compiled in this video. It belongs to individuals or organizations that deserve respect. We use under: Copyright disclaimer section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976. "fair use" is allowed for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching. scholarships and research. IMAGE CREDITS (required — these are CC BY-SA and are NOT covered by the disclaimer above) Images of Sir James Dyson: The Royal Society (CC BY-SA 4.0); Michiel Hendryckx (CC BY-SA 3.0); Eva Rinaldi (CC BY-SA 2.0); Dyson LLC (CC BY-SA 3.0). Farmers' protest photographs via geograph.org.uk (CC BY-SA 2.0). #BritishFarming #UKFarmland #TheBritishLedger