Just as Matt Neustadt of Farmer Wants a Wife did find a potential wife with winner Brooke, the Portage Des Sioux, Missouri farmer just doesn’t have time these days to think about television.  According to the New York Times, Matt’s farm is just one of the many along the Mississippi and other rivers that are taking a beating from flooding.

According to him, the Neustadt family land, near Alton, has flooded at least a half-dozen times in the last 35 years.  Things turned from bad to worse when a levee near his family’s farm gave away, which opened up some 700 acres of their farm to flooding.  Yet even before the levee broke, seeping groundwater had covered the land.

It was a good thing Farmer Wants a Wife finished taping last summer, as Matt is said to have found himself shoveling sand into bags for much of the past few days.

In fact, in a recent interview with BuddyTV, Matt said that things were actually worse than they were last week.

“The water's still coming up … but we're hoping it'll be after real soon,” he revealed. “I think the most that people can do is just contact the local Red Cross I would say, and find out where the concentrations of people are and really how they're being utilized. Whether it be sandbagging, filling bags, or just running food or water, anything like that. If nothing else, if they want to make a monetary donation I'm sure they could do that too.”

Farmer Wants a Wife recently wrapped up its first season on the CW, with the big finale pulling in nearly 2.5 million viewers.  These are impressive numbers for a show on the struggling network, and it's likely that FWAW will see another season in the near future.  However, viewers shouldn't expect Matt Neustadt to be involved.  In his interview with BuddyTV, the farmer revealed that he has no plans to seek fame or fortune, and simply wants to spend his time getting to know Brooke once the floods have cleared up.

Read more about Farmer Wants a Wife:
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-Glenn L. Diaz, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: New York Times
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