He was a farmer who became famous in the late 1990s after Monsanto took him to court. The company had found its genetically-modified canola growing in his field, but he had never paid for the right to grow it. He said the seeds had blown onto his property in the wind. The agro-chemical company required farmers to buy annual licenses for the seeds, at $15/acre, and to sign contracts that forbid them from saving seeds for replanting, forcing them to buy new seeds each year.
