Donald McLean (pastoralist)

Immediately on arrival in South Australia he sent his son Allan to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) to bring back a team of working buffalo, implements and seed wheat, which they planted and reaped by hand in 1838, arguably the first such crop in the colony.

[citation needed] McLean is generally credited with producing South Australia's first commercial crop of 20 acres of wheat in December 1838,[3] but it is likely that others had domestic plots at home of small plantings around the same time.

Dr. Everard had a small plot at his home on the corner of Hindley and Morphett Streets — the ground was hard and apparently infertile, but the experiment was successful, and heavy ears of grain were produced, to the discomfiture of his detractors.

Their children included: He died and was buried "nearby his home, "Auchanadala",[2] Strathalbyn., Further Reference to Matthew Rankine's personal diary page 13th October 1855 Allan McLean, 19th premier of Victoria, was a relative.

He has been confused with another, possibly unrelated, Donald McLean (died before July 1914) who was manager of the North West Bend station on the River Murray for C. H. Armytage, and was the first in South Australia to create sheep paddocks.