• From Date Palms to Alfalfa: How Arizona became fertile ground for Saudi farms

  • Aug 28 2024
  • Length: 25 mins
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From Date Palms to Alfalfa: How Arizona became fertile ground for Saudi farms

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  • The history of Arizona's relationship with Saudi Arabia and the Arabian peninsula starts with a pre-Civil-War military program involving camels run by Jefferson Davis. It went on to involve the state's first college professor, an attempt to launch a new cash crop that became a common tree in the state, and much more. All of that lead to the most recent chapter, when monarchs began seeing Arizona as a place to grow thirsty crops like alfalfa as they exploited weak water laws in the state's rural places.
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