Read an inspiring story in Orion Magazine of how North Dakota farmers succeeded in banning genetically-modified wheat from their state and in doing so visited a humiliating defeat upon a powerful and politically well-connected corporation bent on controlling the world supply of seed. Factoid: John Ashcroft, senator from Missouri before being defeated for reelection by a dead man and elevated to the exalted rank of lord high attorney general, was once known as the senator from Monsanto.