page_title: Percy Schmeiser
hierarchical_section_title: Percy Schmeiser
caption_attribution_description: Percy Schmeiser at Forum3 in Stuttgart
context_page_description: Percy Schmeiser is a businessman, farmer and politician from Bruno, Saskatchewan, Canada. In 1954, he took over the operations of the family owned farm, gas station and farm equipment dealership. He renamed the farm equipment dealership Schmeiser's Garage and added a second farm equipment dealership in Humboldt, SK in 1986 and oversaw their operations until their sale in 2003.
  He became an international symbol and spokesperson for independent farmers' rights and the regulation of transgenic crops during his protracted legal battle with multinational agrichemical company Monsanto. While farming, he specialized in breeding and growing canola, field peas, mustard and wheat. He was the subject of the 2009 film David Versus Monsanto. and the 2020 movie Percy.
context_section_description: Percy Schmeiser (born January 5, 1931) is a businessman, farmer and politician from Bruno, Saskatchewan, Canada. In 1954, he took over the operations of the family owned farm, gas station and farm equipment dealership. He renamed the farm equipment dealership Schmeiser's Garage and added a second farm equipment dealership in Humboldt, SK (Central Farm Sales) in 1986 and oversaw their operations until their sale in 2003.
  He became an international symbol and spokesperson for independent farmers' rights and the regulation of transgenic crops during his protracted legal battle with multinational agrichemical company Monsanto.  While farming, he specialized in breeding and growing canola, field peas, mustard and wheat. He was the subject of the 2009 film David Versus Monsanto. and the 2020 movie Percy.
caption: Percy Schmeiser in Stuttgart (2008);
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