His agricultural arm, Dyson Farming, works around 36,000 acres across Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Somerset.
In 2019, Dyson spent around £500m trying to build an electric car, then killed the project, declaring it commercially unviable.
Dyson Farming calls itself a top-five UK producer of malting barley, wheat, oilseeds, and potatoes, growing more than 100,000 tonnes of food a year.
The greenest thing money can buyIt is worth pausing on the word that trails Dyson Farming everywhere it goes: sustainable.
For a working family farm, that relief is protection, the thing that stops a death in the family from breaking up the holding.