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Or not. But you can bet that’s what TV studio execs were thinking when they dreamed up Farmer Wants a Wife, the Green Acres–style reality show that filmed at a Portage des Sioux farm last summer and debuted on the CW on April 30. The titular farmer, 30-year-old Matt Neustadt, was the prom king at Orchard Farm High School—of course, it was a class of 59—but since then, life on the farm hasn’t exactly been conducive to a love life. “There really isn’t any opportunity to meet someone in the middle of a 100-acre cornfield,” he says. (And it’s a safe bet that any woman he did stumble upon in the middle of a 100-acre cornfield might not be relationship material.)
Neustadt, who beat out five other farmers from across the country for the privilege of putting the girly-girls to work on his 2,000-acre spread, is cagey about details, but he did let slip what might be the biggest twist of the eight-week series: “The gals did an awesome job.” So much for any “hay fever” jokes …
