europe is baking in subtropical heat crops across the continent withering german farmer heiko turner's harvest is history. we've had to rate the feet would been storing for winter with nothing in the fields we can't put the young animals out to graze they get winter feed in the sheds because the fields are totally scorched. michael turner expects his losses to top two hundred thousand euros and he's only one of the many farmers who face ruin. felix the amount of people facing the worst harvest of the century many farms face the prospect of going under crop losses are in the range of fifty to seventy percent who are calling on the government for a crisis aid program and prison has become germany's farmers association would like a billion euros from berlin it says that would go some way at least to ease the effects of harvests which are projected to be well down on last year as things stand right now though farmers aren't likely to see any fast cash agriculture minister yulia clarke no wants to see what happens before deciding at the end of august climatologists say the parched fields dr