Joseph Wetta was born in Colwich, KS to Leo and Anna Wetta. He graduated after four years of college from Kansas State University. Wetta was single and working in Ashtabula County Ohio when he enlisted in the Army. He served in Guantanamo Bay. Wetta was a fraternity brother with Raymond Bert at Kansas State University. The men met after the war and discussed post war jobs. They discussed some of the new feed processing technology. Later that year, Raymod Bert and Joseph Wetta joined forces to form the company Bert & Wetta Sales, manufacturers of dehydrated alfalfa meal. Later, Wetta became the President of the American Dehydrator's Association. He married Virginia and they had three children. Courtesy find a grave and usalfala.net