{"id":165815,"date":"2019-03-05T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=165815"},"modified":"2019-03-07T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T20:35:45","slug":"family-farms-chopper-reveal-discovery-channel-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=165815","title":{"rendered":"Family Farms chopper reveal on Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NDFUchopper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-166591\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NDFUchopper-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NDFUchopper-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NDFUchopper-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/NDFUchopper.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> The Family Farms chopper was revealed on Tuesday, March 5, on the Discovery Channel\u2019s (Ch 19) \u201cAmerican Chopper\u201d program.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers Union President, Mark Watne says, \u201cThe time change to primetime is a great indication of the show\u2019s ratings and popularity.\u00a0 It will help us reach more people with our message that family farm agriculture is important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Viewers will be able to see the creation of the bike, designed by Paul Teutul, Jr., that Farmers Union commissioned last year.<\/p>\n<p>The chopper, which was built in Orange County (N.Y.), was commissioned by North Dakota Farmers Union (NDFU). The episode features an interview with NDFU President Mark Watne in the organization\u2019s Founding Farmers restaurant in King of Prussia, Pa. The motorcycle was revealed in December at the organization\u2019s annual convention in Bismarck, but no videos or photos were shared.<\/p>\n<p>Teutul says, \u201cI appreciate Farmers Union completely trusting me with their brand. I know it\u2019s a leap of faith. My goal is to mold the family farms message into a work of art that people will want to see. Ultimately, they\u2019ll learn more about Farmers Union and the importance of family farm agriculture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The motorcycle operates on E30 and continues Farmers Union\u2019s efforts to create demand for corn and higher ethanol blends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Family Farms chopper was revealed on Tuesday, March 5, on the Discovery Channel\u2019s (Ch 19) \u201cAmerican Chopper\u201d program. Farmers Union President, Mark Watne says, \u201cThe time change to primetime is a great indication of the show\u2019s ratings and popularity.\u00a0 It will help us reach more people with our message [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165815"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166612,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165815\/revisions\/166612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}