The Minter family at Red Cliffs have not relied on one crop – they are farming asparagus, citrus and almonds.

But the rise of Mexican asparagus production to global domination has certainly reshuffled things on this family farm.

For Darren Minter it’s a sad business – his family farm was founded on asparagus almost a century ago.

However, in 1927 when the first plants were going in, no on...