A trial of a hybrid vertical growing system in Dyson Farming’s 26-acre strawberry glasshouse on its Lincolnshire farm has massively boosted yields.
James Dyson’s farming business Dyson Farming owns around 36,000 acres of farmland across Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, West Berkshire, Somerset and Gloucestershire. This makes it the single largest farming business in the UK by land area.
Dyson Farming’s initiative to “invest in the future of sustainable British agriculture” was launched in 2013 with the purchase of Nocton Estate near Lincoln.
The aim of purchasing this farmland was to apply technology to grow food “sustainably, at scale and in harmony with the environment”.
Among the variety of crops grown by the business are 1,225,000 strawberry plants at its 26-acre glasshouse in Lincolnshire. Operating all year round, the facility is able to produce over 1,250 tonnes of strawberries annually.
The first strawberry harvest emerged in March 2021, and since then the Dyson Farming team has been...