Texan boots and cowboy hats are a frequent sight at the local airport, but few take the Texan theme as far as Sir Moir: he lives on a ranch in the rolling countryside near the queen's Scottish seat of Balmoral, breeding Aberdeen Angus cattle.
It does everything from breeding new seeds and cattle, to creating ultra-thin edible wrapping paper for foodstuffs that changes colour when the food goes off, to running a nanotechnology laboratory creating biodegradable ultra-strong fabrics and wound dressings.
Rural U.S. lawmakers with ties to the cattle industry and economically-strapped horse breeding registries have been pushing to reopen horse slaughter plants in the states since the last three plants shut down in 2007 (two in Texas, one in Illinois).
Dyess has been embroiled in litigation with local landowners who complain that the aircraft disturb their cattle, putting them off the vital business of breeding.