This just doesn't seem right to me... it doesn't
Copyright 2000 Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
When the bean police came for the Mayfield brothers, they went looking for help and found attorney Dale Reesman.
Reesman is a lawyer in Boonville, where he's practiced law since 1959 in an inconspicuous office by the riverfront. For the past 10 years, Reesman has been taking in a rather strange bunch of clients: family farmers.
"There's not a whole heck of a lot of money in it," Reesman said. "But it's great fun. If you can save one farm, that's a good thing." If he hasn't earned a lot of money, he has earned a reputation for beating the odds, even winning a case against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. About two-thirds of his clients are farmers.
John and Paul Mayfield, who farm in Arkansas, came to Reesman with a case unlike any he had ever seen. The brothers are being sued by Monsanto, the multinational corporation that's a pioneer of genetic engineering.
Five years ago, the brothers bought their first crop of the company's genetically engineered Roundup Ready soybeans. When they did that, they entered into a whole new set of rules for growing crops, rules that eventually landed them in a lawsuit.
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