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Posted by The Analyst | 25 March 2020 | Farming
Glanbia stock market valuation drops by almost €3bn in a year

A dramatic slump in Glanbia's share price has seen the valuation of the company fall by almost €3 billion in the last year to €2.4 billion.

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Posted by The Analyst | 25 March 2020 | Farming
Falling fuel prices the one silver lining for farmers – big potential to reduce bills ahead silage work

We all need a silver lining at the moment and in machinery circles, with so much spring planting still to do, there is one clear upside materialising. Sustained falls in the price of oil as a result of the row between Russia and Saudi Arabia, and plummeting world demand due to the Covid pandemic, are...

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Posted by The Analyst | 25 March 2020 | Farming
Eimear McGuinness: Our struggling small family farms are key to surviving this crisis

In recent weeks we have learned how much our lives can change in the blink of an eye. Over the coming weeks, I am sure many of us will realise the importance of things that we once took for granted.

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Posted by The Analyst | 25 March 2020 | Breaking News
‘Work emails are softer in Covid times. Usually terse colleagues are asking each other how we are and meaning it’

'Good morning, apologies for the early email…" so begins almost every pre-6am work email I've sent in the last week. My work window - now that my husband and I both work full-time from home with no childcare - is hideously early. I don't mind the hour particularly as BC (Before Covid) I often worked...

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Posted by The Analyst | 25 March 2020 | Breaking News
‘We’re not allowed out of the hotel room – the door is unchained four times a day’

We left China for our annual Chinese New Year vacation on January 18. The plan was to spend three weeks in Cambodia. As the virus started spreading and flights to China were cancelled, we knew it was only a matter of time before our own flight on February 7 was cancelled, which indeed it was.

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Posted by The Analyst | 25 March 2020 | Breaking News
‘Threat of next horror story needs to be kept away from innocent hearts like little Ana’

“Daddy....I love the coronavirus.” Taken at face value, this was a pretty controversial interjection into the misery gripping us all from my seven-year-old daughter Ana, but she is viewing our new world from a very different vantage point.

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Posted by The Analyst | 25 March 2020 | Breaking News
‘The paranoia of becoming infected will stay with us all for a long time’

“No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all,” wrote Albert Camus in ‘The Plague'.

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