[Dust in the Wind]

BS "During the 1980s, the big grain producers sold wheat, on average, for $100 a ton when it would have cost $200 a ton to produce without direct export subsidies, Allan says."

The Exporters sold it to them. The American Producers took what they could get on the market on ANY given day or year.

[SunkenCiv]

One other thing about the Aswan High Dam -- there's a problem downstream (i.e., in the cultivated Nile Valley) with rising brackish groundwater, and a loss of soil fertility as a result of that. The Russkies did the same thing to the Aral Basin, and that's an awful place now.