edgar s. mcfadden honorary sculpture

Edgar S. McFadden (1891–1956) was a remarkable scientist who made breakthroughs in wheat genetics in South Dakota and Texas. He was born to Mr. and Mrs. James E. McFadden in a shanty during a blizzard in the Coteau Hills near Webster, South Dakota on February 3, 1891. His cradle was a grain bin filled with seed wheat; a fitting bed for an individual who would later feed the world with his insight and tenacity as a radical wheat breeder and contributor to the Green Revolution that fed the world during a time of crisis. His life story is a saga of mankind’s battle for food.