> i'm on a farm, a cucumber farm here in aluma ria, just south of aluma ria where the father, manuel sanchez moreno has been in the business for 40 years. in the past week, he had to lose about 50,000 euros. i'm walking through row upon row of cucumbers, most of them have been destroy ed, rotting. they can't give them away because this is happening across southern spain. they would try to give away vegetables like this to charities or to animals -- since all of the farmers are in the same position, this many cucumbers cannot be absorbed. and we were at the cooperative, he's a member of the cooperative, a growing cooperative, nine other growers, lost 350,000 euros, 1% of their annual sales in five days. >> to compensate them at this point? >> i'm sorry, i didn't hear that? >> who is the spanish government saying needs to compensate the spanish farmers for their loss. >> the farmers are saying the european union or germany directly. it's the officials at hamburg germany who implemented the spanish cucumber. unfairly rushed to judgment last week. that's all turned around. and the cucumber here