Feeders, Inc. (Heron Lake, Minn.).

Arthur Dwight Hyde was born at Pipestone, Minnesota in 1902. The family later moved to Illinois, where Hyde grew up. In 1928 he went to work in Minneapolis for General Mills, resigning in 1961 as an executive vice president. From 1961 to 1968 he was president of A. O. Smith Harvestore Products, Inc., a firm that manufactures metal silos.

In 1930 Hyde inherited a 440-acre farm south of Wilder and east of Heron Lake in Jackson County, Minnesota, which had been in his family since 1905. This property, which came to be known as Wilder Farms, was being farmed by tenants and managed by professionals in Minneapolis. In 1937 Hyde (with his business associate Eleanor C. Romhild) assumed management of the farm himself from his office in Minneapolis.

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