 Asparagus, some people say, feel that it is a very expensive vegetable to buy and that's because of the amount of labor that's required. Every spear is harvested by hand, it's packed in boxes, it's taken to a packhouse and individually graded and then bunched into elastics. So it's a very hands-on crop that hasn't been mechanized in many ways yet and that's why it is the price that it is.