diff --git a/Materials/regions/europe.xml b/Materials/regions/europe.xml
index e60b20389..ed855801b 100644
--- a/Materials/regions/europe.xml
+++ b/Materials/regions/europe.xml
@@ -118,9 +118,13 @@
 
   <material>
   <name>NaturalCrop</name>
-  <effect>Effects/transition-base-rock</effect>
+  <effect>Effects/agriculture</effect>
   <texture>Terrain/drycrop.png</texture>
   <object-mask>Terrain/drycrop.mask.png</object-mask>
+  <parameters>
+      <rotation_flag>1</rotation_flag>
+      <rotation_scale>8000.0</rotation_scale>
+    </parameters>
   <xsize>2000</xsize>
   <ysize>2000</ysize>
   <solid>1</solid>
@@ -137,12 +141,16 @@
 </material>
 
   <material>
-    <effect>Effects/cropgrass</effect>
+    <effect>Effects/agriculture</effect>
     <tree-effect>Effects/tree-european-mixed</tree-effect>
     <name>CropGrassCover</name>
     <name>CropGrass</name>
     <texture>Terrain/irrcrop.png</texture>
     <object-mask>Terrain/irrcrop.mask.png</object-mask>
+    <parameters>
+      <rotation_flag>1</rotation_flag>
+      <rotation_scale>8000.0</rotation_scale>
+    </parameters>
     <xsize>2000</xsize>
     <ysize>2000</ysize>
     <light-coverage>2000000.0</light-coverage>
@@ -490,6 +498,4 @@
     <tree-width-m>12.0</tree-width-m>
   </material>   
 
-
-
 </PropertyList>