While no one likes to wait, your favorite apples and cherries from Door County are still doing fine despite the cold and wet weather. High temperatures are expected to struggle to hit 60 degrees through Mother’s Day, with only a handful of days even reaching the low 50s. It means waiting around for orchard owners like Steve Wood, who says the buds on his apple and cherry trees are hard to find. Given the streak of weather, that is a good thing for what he expects to be a good crop this year.

Wood says Door County is considered a good area for fruit growing because it can get past its frost concerns long before trees begin to bear fruit. Meanwhile, area farmers across the state are still waiting to put a meaningful week of work into their fields. The United States Department of Agriculture reported Monday that farmers had less than two suitable days for fieldwork over the last week. That has led to spring tillage falling three weeks behind last year’s pace and oats planting to be 18 days behind schedule. Warm and windy days will be needed to get fields to a point where the land can support the machinery.