Horizons #48 – Saudi Arabia’s love affair with barley – Part Two

Horizons #48 – Saudi Arabia’s love affair with barley – Part Two

In Part One of this two-part series I explained some of the key factors underpinning Saudi Arabia’s long history of using barley for animal feed. Historically speaking, Australian barley has long dominated this market, however, due to a number of reasons the status-quo has recently been upended, effectively ending Australia’s dominance of the Saudi market for barley.

Horizons #47- Saudi Arabia’s love affair with barley (Part One)

Horizons #47- Saudi Arabia’s love affair with barley (Part One)

The primary driver behind Saudi Arabia’s position as the largest global importer of feed barley, and importantly, as a key historical market for Australian barley exports, has been the Kingdom’s Bedouin tribes, who have long had a passion for barley as an animal feed.  

Horizons #44 – An old truth, rediscovered…

Horizons #44 – An old truth, rediscovered…

When you start citing a paper first published in 1941 and tell your colleagues why that paper still has relevance today, then don’t take umbrage if your colleagues start saying: Kingwell, you’re really showing your age!