Lonely Hearts Discover an Online Farming Dating Service

By Susan Lahey
Published on January 1, 2007
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ILLUSTRATION: BRAD ANDERSON
Discover these online dating services for country folk.

Rural singles find commonality at an online farming dating service.

She was a 65 year old living in rural Ohio. She’d been lonely for a decade, she’d gone to church and prayed for a husband, and suddenly she saw an article about www.FarmersOnly.com, the dating site for farmers. She called website owner Jerry Miller at home: “I don’t know anything about computers but I have to get on this site,” she told him.

He talked her through registering. The next night she called him again: “How do I get a picture on here?” Again, he coached her, finally offering to get it on the site for her if she mailed him the photo. A couple of nights later the phone rang again: “How do I send emails?”

It was about three weeks later that he heard from her again. Expecting to talk her through a technical problem, he was shocked to hear, “Thanks, I got married.”

Her new spouse was 76, a rancher from South Dakota, and they’d just decided, “Why wait?”

FarmersOnly.com is the brainchild of Miller, a partner in the advertising firm of Brown & Miller in the Cleveland, Ohio, area whose clients include the Alpaca Owners and Producers Association. In visiting with clients, he got to talking to one woman who had recently divorced and was complaining about the difficulty of meeting someone. He suggested meeting people at church. She already knew everyone at church. And she didn’t have time to socialize. He proposed an Internet dating service, even helped her write her profile, but a month later she told him: “These city guys don’t have a clue, they can’t relate to my lifestyle at all.”

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