Youth Feature
For the Love of Pigs Kastin Wilde With a long family history spent in production agriculture and in the show ring, there is no doubt where Kastin Wilde’s love for showing pigs has come from. In fact, some might even say she was born into it. “My parents actually met at a pig show,” said Kastin. “I guess you could say that’s how it all started for me.” The Wilde family has been involved in raising and exhibiting show pigs for several generations. Dating back to the 1930’s and 1940’s when Adolph Wilde, Kastin’s grandfather on her fathers side, began raising hogs in Runnels County Texas. He was the first hog farmer to bring the Spotted Poland China breed to the state of Texas. He was also the first to pour a cement feeding floor and shaded cement hog wallows. While on her mother’s side of the family the story begins in Santa Fe, Texas where her grandfather, Tom Glover, started in the hog business in 1974. The influence of both grandparents being involved in the hog business was then pasted down to Kastin’s parents. Her mother, Annie, showed diversified livestock projects while growing up, but her passion always lied with showing hogs. Kastin’s father, Joseph, grew up a