Wanted: Farm Wife. No Experience Necessary

Rural Route 2

Episode 2 of The Bachelor aired last night. From the looks of social media today no one seems to be holding out much hope that a future farm wife will be found in this mix of girls.

I can’t bring myself to watch. Last night’s big competition was a bikini tractor race. Really? That inspiration had to have come straight from a bad country music video.

However, because I won’t watch, I’ll keep my judgments to myself. After all I know firsthand that a farmer’s daughter is not qualification enough to be a good farm wife. Case in point: My first field meal was delivered to the wrong field. If the neighbor would have stopped, he would have gotten My Farmer’s dinner.

Plenty of farmers, farm women, farmer’s wives, and agriculture advocates are self-proclaimed city girls. Dawn founded the Facebook page, City Life to Farm Life & Wife. She…

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