Arkansas farmer describes loss of '13 rice sale

LONOKE -- Nearly 311,000 bushels of rice constituted 80% of a farm family's 2013 crop for which they never got paid, a farmer testified Tuesday in a trial related to the 2014 closing of Turner Grain Merchandising. The rice was shipped from Zero Grade Farms in Lonoke County to a Mississippi River port near West Memphis, where it was loaded onto barges for export, Mark Isbell, one of the five principals in Zero Grade Farms, said.