[SAJ]

Just last month, the Kingdom announced the end of subsidies to wheat grovers. They won't be exporting wheat any longer -- or growing it.

Never did make a lot of sense to coerce a wheat crop in the desert.

[kabar]

I spent five years in the Kingdom and visited the wheat fields, which were using unreplenishable water from deep wells. At one time they were the fifth or sixth largest exporter of wheat. The reason was quite simple: corruption. Many members of the Royal Family made a lot of money from wheat production, even though it made no sense in terms of the production costs per bushel.