• Age: 75
• Interview Date: 10/24/2008
• Interviewer: Mark R. DePue, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
• Interview Length: 240 minutes Sit Down Interview
• County: Fayette
• Ed Runge was born in 1933 in St. Peter, Illinois and grew up on a farm during the Great Depression and World War II. Ed received his Ph. D. in 1963 and since then has taught at many colleges agronomy and soil science, traveling and researching soil sciences extensively.
• Senior Advisor for the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture, Texas A&M University

Ed Runge with Rayce and Royce   Ed Runge (right) with Norman Borlaug in Matta Grosso, 2004