Last week, we brought you a video each night of the week from Monday to Friday (28 July to 1 August) visiting crops across the country and examining how harvest was progressing.

On day one, we visited Waterford where we visited Denn Feeds agronomist Kevin Looby.

We saw spring barley, winter wheat and spring beans and crops were looking good. Spring barley had good potential.

On day two, we headed to Wexford where we met Cooney Furlong Grain Company agronomist George Blackburn.

George talked about spring barley crops, building soil organic matter, catch crops and grass weeds.

On Wednesday, we went behind the scenes at a grain intake.

Agronomist James O'Loughlin showed us the inside of Quinns of Baltinglass' biggest grain intake in Lewistown, Co Kildare which has the capacity to take in 70,000t. James chatted crop yields, issues from the season and discussed some high oilseed rape yields.

We estimated yields by carrying out a survey with agronomists all across the country from Donegal to Cork.

Cereal production was estimated up 334,000t in the survey. You can read about it here.

Thursday took the tour to Termonfeckin in Co Louth where Drummonds has its trial site. Agronomist Brian Reilly explained the benefits of having this practical research site, as well as chatting about yellow rust, take-all and the importance of rotation.

On Friday we chatted to farmer Ronan Snow about the challenges in the sector. Ronan was cutting winter wheat and the first field had reached 4.5t/ac. We discussed overall production estimates with BASF's Dave Leahy and looked at solutions for some of the challenges farmers are facing.

Thanks to all who contributes to the Crop Tour from filling out a survey to stopping your day to have a chat and bring our readers and viewers into the harvest for 2025.

The Irish Farmers Journal Crop Tour is supported by BASF's campaign Farming the Biggest Job on Earth.