I thought this was amusing and didn’t know where else to post it…
- Clint

CANANDAIGUA, New York (AP) – A farmer, in place of posting a newspaper advertisement to search for a mate, resorted to planting a message in a cow pasture in 50-foot letters made from corn stalks.

The message, planted by Pieter DeHond, a 41-year-old divorced father of two, read: “S.W.F Got-2 (love symbol) Farm’n.” (or Single White Female Got to Love Farming). Underneath was a long arrow pointing to his house.

“I wouldn’t place a personal ad in the paper. To me it seems desperate,” he said, laughing. “This is more of a fun thing. I put this out in a field where nobody could see it unless you flew over it. The folks here in Canandaigua are always asking me why I don’t have a wife, and I was just kinda playing a game with them, that’s all.”

The message, measuring about 900 feet wide by 600 feet, was easily legible from the air – airplanes frequently pass over between Rochester and New York City – when the stalks reached 7 feet tall. But a few days ago, DeHond led his cows into the pasture and they chomped up the field corn.

His corn-field message was featured this week in his hometown newspaper and has already drawn quite a few phone calls and e-mails.

“I’d be lying, if I told you I wasn’t a little proud,” DeHond said.

Here’s the link to the photo