Read Anna’s Farmer Wants a Wife profile below ;
I’m 24, friendly, fun loving, with a great sense of humour. I really love going out and meeting new and interesting people. I work as a secretary for a local firm, and was bought up on my father’s sheep farm. I spend my weekends with friends doing the usual, drinks, pubs and clubs. I love a man who can make me laugh! Hope to here from you soon!
James Vestbirk, founder of KissingGates.com (a rural dating website), talked to Raw Business about the practicalities and difficulties of running a “Farmer Wants a Wife” business in a rural area. James discussed his family farm, countryside life and rural broadband access which is a real issue for our members who live in remote areas. We have recently revised design elements in Kissinggates.com to improve the load speed for members who are suffering because of poor Internet access.
Living in the countryside can mean your political voice is often not heard; business and governments have often neglected the rural area in favour of focusing on densely populated urban areas. However in the pre-election promises, rural broadband was a priority and we are starting to see pledges turn into actions towards achieving this. The importance of a successful broadband network should not be underestimated, it allows people who live remotely an opportunity to use dating services such as Kissinggates.com. Our focus is bringing together single farmers into a portal and subsequently a large database of women follow who are looking for farmer wants a wife.
Many rural areas have little or no broadband access which is particularly problematic for businesses who rely on modern technology such as broadband in order to develop their business, this is very relevant to farmers who now have to submit many documents online to manage stock movements, claim subsidies etc. A recent report identified rural parts of the country should receive priority when it comes to the roll out of super fast broadband, which will come as excellent news for many single farmers.
This is something we have long campaigned for and rural broadband has and will continue to be a major issue in the countryside, for business to thrive in these areas there needs to be a real commitment to improve our core UK infrastructure, which will in turn increase business activity in the countryside. It will also help to keep the under 30 generation which rely on broadband for communication in the countryside.
The BBC are making a light-hearted matchmaking series and are looking for single men and women aged 30 – 55 from all around the UK. They need people who are fun, out going and happy to be filmed going on a date. If chosen we would need you for 1 1/2 days filming sometime this summer and autumn.
This is an exciting opportunity for our members to find themselves on a show similar to “Farmer Wants A Wife”, on channel 5, and the benefits of being featured on such a show will undoubtedly improve your odds of finding someone. Please contact james@ruraldating.co.uk for more details.
As well as online dating, Kissinggates.com are also farmers, and we as a business have a keen interest in the rural way of life and farming in a traditional way. On that note we have just taken delivery of our first stock bull, Leopald. Leo has an important job to do, not only to get friendly with our cows but also to build up our herd over the coming three years. It has been a good 20 months of relative stability in the beef price which has given farmers the confidence to dig deep in the store sales, helping to maintain the price, which is great for farmers.
With more livestock about it does mean that the time for “farmer wants a wife” searching is limited for beef and livestock farmers. At least lambing is nearly over for most of the country which is when the hard work really begins some might say. This is however a really interesting point, how do livestock men and women who are farmer wants a wife find a partner at this time of year? Meeting someone a conventional way is difficult because;
a) There is no time to go out.
b) The local pubs are closed.
c) Singles who are not farmers don’t understand their commitments in terms of time.
We have got a solution, on Kissinggates.com although you may not find farmer wants a wife straight away, you will be able to communicate with local members in your own time who are like-minded and you will then be able to meet up when you have the time, this goes some way to solving the traditional problems associated with online dating.
Regular readers of our blog will be disappointed to see we have not posted much last week, however the good news is we are now back to update you on what we have been up to;
We continually modify and evolve our systems so that we are offering you the best opportunity to find someone, especially farmer wants a wife, we would rather you found someone in a month and told 6 of your friends, than found someone in 6 months. Dating is all about numbers, and there is someone for everyone - kissinggates.com helps improve your odds to find that person.
As a member you can now send an ice breaker message free to a group of members so you can get the ball rolling and saving you having to send 100’s of individual messages. We have also introduced the ability for members to filter there contact preferences – which allows all members to select who they want to hear from, this has improved the searches and quality of contacts.
This is a reflection of our commitment to empowering you with the tools to find country friends as there are no rules to say farmer x should match horse lover y.
When searching always opt for the full search. If you are a 35 year old horse dating looking for country friends we suggest you look for 30 – 40 age bracket within any county and 30 miles of your location. This will ultimately help you find a horse dating partner.
The Nocton Dairy plans have today been put on hold, Kissinggates.com reported on Nocton Dairy in an earlier post on UK Super Dairy. The dairy has generated a huge amount of local and national interest and it has to be said a lot has been negative. Developing a brown industrial site to build the UK’s largest dairy has a lot of benefits, not least collecting the milk from one location rather than travelling to several. However there have been a lot of animal health protests which do not believe it is ethical to house over 8,000 cattle in one location is not good for animal welfare.
This farm will create a centre for over 80 local jobs and local farmers to supply the food stuffs. This will certainly draw benefits for farmers, however it does also highlight a social change for Farmer Wants a Wife. Smaller farms, particularly dairies which are being closed and swallowed up by larger dairies which is making it even harder for Single Farmers to find a wife.
Kissinggates.com targets the rural community and helps to singletons such as farmers to find a partner, this is of particular interest in the current economic climate where it is useful to share the stress and economic difficulties with a partner which is often quite hard in the rural community.
This week’s Monday blues were postponed untill Tuesday and a short week this week after a busy Easter weekend, which fell early this year pushing the price of lamb up even higher if farmers could reach the Easter market in time!
Kissinggates.com has also seen a growth in registrations as singletons return to their families to be asked “have you found a partner yet?” The horrible pressure put under singletons to find someone is rising as people are getting married older, single occupancy increasing etc. This is even more so in the countryside where it is difficult to find a partner because of the physical landscape and demograghics - there are less people across a wider area meaning the odds are against coutryside love. To improve these odds Kissinggates.com is bringing together Country Friends to find each other and friendship as well as the opportunity to find a relationship. This is ideal if you are a farmer wants a wife or just looking to meet new friends.
Registration is free, safe and simple and it is a one page form. This gives you a chance to search for horse dating singles as well as rural singles to “try before you buy.” Another new free feature is the ice breaker message which allows you to send a mass message to members in your area taking the hassle out of spending hours searching!
James Vestbirk, founder of Kissinggates.com, was on BBC Radio Newcastle on Monday with Jonathan Miles discussing online dating and rural issues surrounding singletons living in Newcastle and Northumberland. The North East is a popular Horse Dating area and we discussed this with Jonathan Miles live on BBC Newcastle. There seems to be a great deal of interest in Farmer Wants a Wifefrom the toon and James tried to answer why this might be?
Computer Software and social media developers are focusing on a growing interest in Farming and consumer demand for information on where there food comes from. As such we are now seeing an influx of games such as Simfarm and Farming Simulator.
The bio for Farming Simulator goes something like this;
“Assuming the role of a young farmer – you can experience the 18 hours-a-day lifestyle of running a busy farm in the middle of the beautiful rolling countryside. You start the game by choosing from a small collection of basic vehicles and machinery to explode into your sparse farmland.”
Sounds fun 
It would be interesting to know how many farmers play this game? This would be similar to working all day and then playing a game doing your job afterwards. Interestingly we think that might be the case, because farming is as much a lifestyle as a job. Social issues from living in a rural community are not really a highlight of the games and the difficulties of Farmer Wants a Wife are hard to translate into a popular social game.
It would also be interesting to compare the female and male strategies for playing the games and to consider if a horse loving single lady would build paddocks on her farm, in an effort to balance agriculture with pleasure. We certainly think the two should be not be mutually exclusive and Horse Dating is a big feature of Kissinggates.com.
Maybe this is being sexist, but unfortunately the majority of farmers in the UK are male and this explains the popularity of farmer wants a wife because traditionally farmers struggle to search beyond a given radius of the farm and relocating is difficult. However singletons who love horses and horse dating should seek out farmers with ample land to accommodate of horse or two 
