Sir Eric Fleming Smart OBE (12 October 1911 – 10 June 1973) was a Western Australian wheat-farmer, grazier, and local government councillor.
[1] His innovation achieved record grain and wool yields; he also pioneered modern agricultural methods for fertilisation and pest control.
[1] Smart increased soil fertility through the planting of the Western Australian blue lupin, which would thrive in sandy conditions if superphosphates were used.
[2] Smart married Jean Constance Davis on 15 September 1938, at Adelaide's Pirie Street Methodist Church.
[1] Smart authored a booklet West Australian Wasteland Transformed in 1960, in which he explained his techniques and philosophy.
[1] Smart bequeathed $200,000 to the University of Western Australia to continue his research, focusing on the use of lupins on land in the West Midlands.