Not good - Ammonia production in Europe

This little item from Reuters:

BASF readies more ammonia production cuts in gas supply crunch
Germany's BASF, the world's largest chemical company, is cutting ammonia production further due to soaring natural gas prices, it said on Wednesday, with potential ramifications from farming to fizzy drinks.

Germany's biggest ammonia maker SKW Piesteritz and number four Ineos also said they could not rule out production cuts as the country grapples with disruption to Russian gas supplies.

Ammonia plays a key role in the manufacturing of fertiliser, engineering plastics and diesel exhaust fluid. Its production also yields high-purity carbon dioxide (CO2) as a byproduct, which is needed by the meat and fizzy drinks industries.

"We are reducing production at facilities that require large volumes of natural gas, such as ammonia plants," BASF Chief Executive said in a media call after the release of quarterly results, confirming an earlier Reuters report.

They are not content with burning down food distribution facilities, they are now actively targeting the basic components - ammonia and therefore fertilizer.

A bit of background from InfoGalactic: The Haber process

The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is an artificial nitrogen fixation process and is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia today. It is named after its inventors, the German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, who developed it in the first half of the twentieth century. The process converts atmospheric nitrogen (N2) to ammonia (NH3) by a reaction with hydrogen (H2) using a metal catalyst under high temperatures and pressures:

Before the development of the Haber process, ammonia had been difficult to produce on an industrial scale with early methods such as the Birkeland–Eyde process and Frank–Caro process all being highly inefficient.

The Hydrogen is produced via steam reformation of Methane (CH4) and the resultant CO2 is captured and used for other industrial processes - carbonation, welding gas, chemical feedstocks for food production (stops oxidation and browning, preserves fruit), plastics, etc...  Cut off the natural gas (90% Methane) and you kill fertilizer production.