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Wool Logs

Jul 18, 20260:08:06Science & Medicine

It costs farmers more to shear sheep than they get for wool, as we haven’t scaled up uses for wool in Ireland. Now, in order to re-wet bogs and block drains, farmers have been making water repellent Irish sheep wool into...

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Wool Logs is an episode from CountryWide by RTÉ. It costs farmers more to shear sheep than they get for wool, as we haven’t scaled up uses for wool in Ireland. Now, in order to re-wet bogs and block drains, farmers have been making water re...

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Published Jul 18, 2026, 0:08:06 long, audio available.

Wool Logs

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