Walnuts never have the delicate snowy white beauty of almonds in the springtime. But the plain-looking walnut more than makes up for its lack of floral glamour when it comes to production ranking and value – that is, as far as San Joaquin County is concerned.In 2012, the latest agricultural report from the San Joaquin County Ag Commissioner Scott Hudson, walnuts galloped to the number two position in the county’s Top 10 crops with a total gross value of $457 million. That’s $178 million more than its 2011 third-place ranking that showed a total gross value of $279 million.Almonds maintained the same No.