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Three factors defined 2020 dairy financials If volatility has been the defining characteristic of the dairy industry during the last few decades, 2020 was one for the record books. As last year’s books get finalized, Cornell’s Chris Wolf explained that three factors contributed to the financial health of dairy farms. “We’re starting to get some idea of what the dairy farm financials looked like for 2020,” he explained during the February 17 Hoard’s Dairyman DairyLivestream. “There’s a pretty wide range of performances; maybe even wider than what we’ve seen in recent years.�...

Dairy's labor balance: man and machine Dairy technology has exploded in the last few decades, and for that we have both innovation and necessity to thank. If labor laws continue to expand as they already have in a few states, the necessity of laborsaving technologies may become even more urgent. Between smaller labor pools to draw from, more overtime restrictions, minimum wage improvements, and wider authorization of unions, finding employees while providing good working conditions on dairy farms is becoming more and more difficult and costly. “There’s been research where we’ve found th...

SHARE The next 10 years of cloud will differ dramatically from the past decade, in ways we couldn’t have imagined just a few years ago. The early days of cloud deployed virtualization of standard off-the-shelf components to scale out and build a large distributed system. The coming decade will see a much more data-centric, real-time, intelligent, hyper-decentralized cloud that will comprise on-premises, hybrid, cross-cloud and edge workloads. And it will have a services layer that abstracts away the complexity of the underlying infrastructure. Those are key takeaways of the guests from the...

SHARE Edge computing is an adolescent market just starting a growth spurt. Its predicted surge from $3.6 billion in 2020 to $15.7 billion by 2025 comes from the enormous diversity of potential use cases. But like any talented teen, edge technology has to decide exactly what it is, where it belongs, and how it’s going to get there. “Defining edge, it’s easier to define what it isn’t: It’s anywhere that you’re going to have IT capacity that isn’t aggregated into a public or private cloud data center,” said John Roese (pictured, left), global chief technology officer of products ...

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