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Reader comment on item: "Saudi Arabia to End Wheat Growing"
Submitted by mike palmer (United States), Mar 4, 2008 at 10:20
Back in the late '80s-early '90s when I was writing Guardians of the Gulf, I ran across a US Govt. estimate that the actual cost of a Saudi loaf of bread (baked in the Kingdom using Saudi-grown wheat) was $67.00!
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| 1 | KSA could learn from Bahrain [157 words] | Dave | May 30, 2022 16:38 | 282162 | |
| Middle east food supplies, Danish cartoons and Cheese in UAE [162 words] | Dusty | Apr 1, 2008 07:05 | 124302 | ||
 Suicidal [92 words] | Manford Lawrence | Sep 23, 2008 16:45 | 124302 | ||
|  Saudi Wheat [40 words] | mike palmer | Mar 4, 2008 10:20 | 121705 | |
| revelation [8 words] | True believer | Oct 17, 2008 08:39 | 121705 | ||
| Food Cartel-Anyone! [48 words] | Mike | Feb 25, 2008 15:18 | 121048 | ||
| Great Idea [149 words] | Ynnatchkah | Feb 26, 2008 15:49 | 121048 | ||
| Re: Great Idea [15 words] | mike | Feb 26, 2008 18:27 | 121048 | ||
| The answer to your questions is in the article Ynnatchkah [115 words] | Sully | Feb 29, 2008 01:33 | 121048 | ||
| Ethanol from Sugar Cane, NOT Corn...Sully....Hello ! [159 words] | Ynnatchkah | Mar 2, 2008 22:59 | 121048 | ||
| I realize that you were talking about Brazilian ethanol but look what politics has made happen [96 words] | Sully | Mar 4, 2008 13:27 | 121048 | ||
| Ethanol 2 [229 words] | Ynnatchkah | Mar 4, 2008 19:45 | 121048 | ||
| Wheat in Saudi [70 words] | tominoman | Feb 25, 2008 05:45 | 121014 | ||
| and the name of the book is..... [12 words] | Mark G | Feb 29, 2008 11:37 | 121014 | ||
| book about saudi [19 words] | tominoman | Mar 3, 2008 06:22 | 121014 | ||
| book [8 words] | Neil Mc Dermott | Jun 11, 2010 07:19 | 121014 |
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