Lloyd Milton Martin, founder of Wallenstein Feed and Supply, has died. He was 96.
He started into the feed business in 1955 as Lloyd Martin Feed Supplies from a Wallenstein warehouse his parents owned.
He bought Riverside Feed and renamed it Wallenstein Feed and Supply. It became one of the province’s most successful independent feed mills, supplying farmers in the Waterloo Region, Wellington and Perth Counties and along the route to Hamilton where his trucks picked up supplies.
The business is now run by his son, Rick. Another of his four sons, Roger, was dean of the Rottman School of Management at the University of Toronto and an economics graduate from Harvard University.
Martin was a devout Mennonite who helped found a congregation, contributed to Mennonite Economic Development Associates and was chairman of the Mennonite Credit Union.
