Site set to find dates for busy farmers

Long hours and the work itself can be a turnoff, some farmers contend.
BEACHWOOD, Ohio (AP) -- Big-city girl looking for small-town love? Hardworking farmer with little time to find that special someone?
An Ohio man may have the answer for your dating needs. His online dating service, farmersonly.com, has profiles for more than 1,800 people from around the nation, from nature lovers to farmers too busy working sunrise to sunset, year-round to find love the old-fashioned way.
"Single farmers need to find someone who can relate to what they do. Those people are out there. They just need to meet 'em," said the site's owner, Jerry Miller of the Cleveland suburb of Beachwood.
Miller, 52, created the site in May after listening to a divorced farmer speak of her dating woes. She tried other online dating sites but couldn't find a Mr. Right who understood her rural lifestyle.
Miller isn't a farmer but his day job as an advertising man for clients including the Alpaca Owners & amp; Breeders Association takes him to plenty of farms.
What it offers
Newcomers to the site are offered a free 30-day premium membership. After that, the cost to remain on the site varies by time from $9.99 for a month to $59.99 for a year.
Many members are from Ohio, including "farmgirljuls," a 22-year-old Wooster woman. She says she knows her way around a milking parlor and on a tractor seat. And she's looking for "a good ol' farmboy."
Others looking for love come from rural areas around Kent, Medina and North Ridgeville.
There is plenty of availability from other parts of the nation, too.
"CountryPlowBoy," a 49-year-old man from Caldwell, Idaho, describes himself this way: "Me, well I'm a successful farmer, although I sometimes wonder why. Easygoing and laid back, youthful and athletic."
Maybe he's a match for "JerseyCowLover," a 29-year-old woman from Buffalo, Mo., whose profile reads, in part, "'Til the cows come home ... Or I go and get them for the night milking. I'm just your simple hard working dairywoman. My life is my cows and family."
Nick Miller, not related to Jerry Miller, is a 35-year-old divorced farmer from Portage County who said he's just looking for companionship. He raises beef cattle and grows 300 acres of crops in Rootstown while working full time as an electrical engineer.
He said that leaves little time for meeting women, and those he does meet usually aren't thrilled with his long hours and sometimes messy -- and smelly -- farm work.
"It turns a lot of people off," Miller says. "Compatibility is tough."