By Nicolle Ritchie and Angie Gradiz
Weather
The past week was hot and mostly dry, with small pop-up showers over parts of southwest Michigan over the weekend. They provided mostly negligible moisture. High temperatures are expected to continue over the next few days, with the potential for about 0.25 inches of rain over the weekend and into early next week. The rain will bring slightly cooler temperatures.
Crops and pests
Soybeans are mostly at R7, which is where one pod anywhere on the plant has reached mature pod color, or R8 (full maturity). At R8, harvest will begin once the soybeans have dried down sufficiently.
Source : msu.edu