11/05/2009
News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. Declining demand for wool means that sheep could be farmed to grow hair rather than fleeces.
As nylon replaces wool as the material of choice for clothing and carpets, Charlotte Smith discovers what impact this is having on farmers and their sheep. She finds out that the future of the woolly sheep could be hairy. Plus uptake of bluetongue vaccination has been so low that Defra are holding a 'cut price' sale of the vaccine.
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- Mon 11 May 200905:45BBC Radio 4
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