LEADERSHIP Engineering agriculture In 2013, Dyson turned his attention to agriculture, a sector that appears very different to high-end electronics. Dyson Farming is now the UK’ s largest farming operation, covering 36,000 acres across Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. The flagship 26-acre glasshouse in Carrington, Lincolnshire, applies engineering methodology to food production. Dyson Farming approaches a strawberry as Dyson would a motor. The facility houses 1.25 million strawberry plants on a hybrid vertical growing system, a rotating carousel that maximises light exposure whilst minimising land use. Powered by renewable electricity and surplus heat from an adjacent anaerobic digester, the glasshouse produces 1,250 tonnes of strawberries annually, yielding 250 % higher than conventional greenhouse
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