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Amy Throndsen

Amy Throndsen

Managing Partner and COO / Advanced Comfort Technology Inc. / DCC Waterbeds
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Small investments now can add up to big results in cow comfort

Fans, waterers, gates, stall dividers and lying space are some of the items that should be considered for winter maintenance.
October 4, 2022
Amy Throndsen

Fall is here, the holiday season is rapidly approaching, temperatures are dropping, and school activities are already in full swing. In this busy season, you’re likely not looking for another thing to add to your to-do list.


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What are you doing to find and empower the L6 on your farm?

The L6 – or Level 6 – is the person six levels down from the top who knows what you badly need to know. How could the information this person or people are collecting be beneficial to your business?
August 22, 2022
Amy Throndsen

In the “Six Levels Down” episode of the Against the Rules podcast, host Michael Lewis followed healthcare provider Athenahealth’s journey to fixing one of their biggest problems – getting insurance companies to pay their bills – and in the process, discovered the power of the L6.



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Putting the puzzle pieces together to build the best barn

July 21, 2022
Amy Throndsen
When you build a barn, it’s like you’re putting together a complex jigsaw puzzle. Since there are many pieces in the puzzle, it pays to spend time looking at the big picture to ensure you have all the pieces and they fit together the way you want.

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Zuleger uses Air Force experience to advocate for dairy policy

November 8, 2021
Amy Throndsen
Integrity first. Service before self. Excellence in all we do. Sounds like that could be the motto for dairy farmers, and for some, it’s likely close to the farm’s written mission. It is actually the core values of the U.S. Air Force that ground service men and women.
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Beaty brings lifetime of service to dairy’s benefit

October 13, 2021
Amy Throndsen
Dale Beaty understood service in his bones before he could likely touch his feet to the pedals of a tractor. Beaty grew up on his grandparents’ 15-cow dairy farm, where they milked the cows by hand.
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Perry shares agriculture from Georgia to Africa

August 10, 2021
Amy Throndsen
If you need a pick-me-up or reminder of why you do what you do, give Gena Perry a call. She’ll be able to shed a light on agriculture’s big picture by providing perspective on a local and global scale infused with positive energy and boots-on-the ground experience to back up her intellect.
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From Army fatigues to animal health: Laura Aeschliman

May 12, 2021
Amy Throndsen
Just as dairy farming is in the blood of so many in the dairy industry, military service was instilled in the blood of Laura Aeschliman.
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What two years in Nicaragua taught an Iowa farm kid

February 5, 2021
Amy Throndsen
Little did Kasey Dix know growing up on her family’s 60-cow Holstein dairy farm in eastern Iowa that her love of dairy would take her to Nicaragua for two years of service as a Peace Corps volunteer and then around the world in her role as international sales manager for Genex.
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4 things no one ever talks about when it comes to cow comfort

December 4, 2020
Amy Throndsen
If you’ve heard cow comfort talked about once, you’ve heard it 1,000 times: “If you take care of your cows, they will take care of you.”
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How ‘one thing’ has changed the past 6 months

September 14, 2020
Amy Throndsen
When my last article, “How ‘one thing’ has changed me, my marriage and my family’s business,” published in early February 2020, little did I or anyone else know how radically different our lives would look less than 30 days later. Nor could we have foreseen the roller coaster ride in the months that have followed.
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