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Photos: Port labor deal may be too late for California growers

A truck sprays and fans out herbicide as it makes its rounds amid almond trees on Jake Wenger's family farm in Modesto, Calif.

A truck sprays and fans out herbicide as it makes its rounds amid almond trees on Jake Wenger’s family farm in Modesto, Calif.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

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An end to labor strife at West Coast ports should speed up cargo operations, but it may be too late to help California’s drought-weary nut and citrus farmers.

Port labor deal may be too late for California growers

“Next year is scary,” said Jake Wenger, a fourth-generation nut farmer. “And that’s what we said last year.”  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

Port labor deal may be too late for California growers

Jake Wenger and his son, Jaden, watches as a farmworker pulls around the bend in a vehicle that sprays herbicide onto the almond trees on their family farm in Modesto.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

Port labor deal may be too late for California growers

Paul Wenger, center, talks to son Jake Wenger during a tour of the family farm in Modesto, Calif.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

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Port labor deal may be too late for California growers

Almond trees are in full bloom, making many roads picturesque to drive on in Modesto, Calif.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

Port labor deal may be too late for California growers

“When a wind kicks up it looks like it’s snowing. The petals smell like honey,” said Paul Wenger, president of the California Farm Bureau Federation.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

Port labor deal may be too late for California growers

Tony Nauba prunes the walnut trees on Jake Wenger’s family farm in Modesto, Calif.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

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