Willard Waldo

(1912- ) born near DeWitt, Saline County. Farmer, swine producer, known as the major developer of Waldo Farms, a hog business first begun in 1895, which became the oldest and largest producer of swine breeding stock in the nation, with sales to nearly every state and over 25 foreign countries, he has been the world's largest recorder of disease-free Durocs since 1976; recipient of almost 200 citations and awards for his breeding stock on the state and national level and for his other contributions, including recognition in 1988 by the Newcomen Society and induction into the Pork Industry Hall of Fame in 1998 by the National Pork Producers Council. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, April 14, 1963, p. F-13 and Lincoln Star, August 9, 1994, pp. 1, 9 and Wilber Republican, March 18, 1996, p. 6 and Lincoln Journal Star, November 18, 1998, p. B-1.

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