Farmers Expand Business with Web Design
June 12, 2003 | Dexigner Team
With his crops devastated by disease and insects, March Stevens needed to try something new.
He became a cyber farmer.
After designing his own Web page to promote his farm, Mr. Stevens was asked by other farmers and business owners to help them with Internet sites.
Now it's a part-time business for Mr. Stevens, his wife, Marla, and daughter, Kim.
They've created more than 50 Web sites.
"Not bad for a dumb dirt farmer," Mr. Stevens said. "I guess it started out as stress relief from the real occupation."
Most of his clients are in agriculture, although he has designed Web pages for a funeral home and the city of Glenburn, among others.
He charges between $200 and $2,000, with the average Web site costing about $900, he said.
"Some of them are pretty basic," Mr. Stevens said.
He designed a Web site about four years ago for Curt Bjerke of Bjerke Brothers, Inc. in Buxton, a company that services grain cleaners and elevators.
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