https://phys.org/news/2018-07-drought-germany-breadbasket.html

"It hasn't really rained since April and that's the main growth period for our grains and the other crops—we've never seen anything like it," said Juliane Stein of Agro Boerdegruen, a farming conglomerate formed after German reunification in 1990.

"We've reached the point here in Germany where we're talking about a natural disaster that's a threat to our livelihood."