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Owen Harman, 5, of Harney admires a collection of antique toy tractors while joined by his brother Knox, 3, and father Jon Harman during the annual Farm Toy Show at the Carroll County Ag Center on ...
A special collection named “Bernie’s Sawdust” features all wooden farm toys, hand-made by Iowa resident Bernie Kluesner. The toys have won multiple awards at the Iowa State Fair.
A South Mississippi man who grew up on a farm has been collecting toy tractors and other miniature versions of farm equipment since he was a kid.
Toy land is a real place. Max Williams, the Willy Wonka of John Deere toys, is a farm boy eight decades removed from the addiction of his first cast iron tractor, and wonderfully obsessed.
During a trip to Newman Grove, we met a toy farm machinery enthusiast who has a room full of everything from toy tractors to combines.
In the field of antique cast-iron toy collecting, the Vindex John Deere brand is the cream of the crop — and assembling a collection of these rare and costly toys ...
His dad Neil started showing off the family’s tractor collection and toy tractor collection in 2008 with the creation of the Windmill Acre Farm Toy Tractor Show.
The National Farm Toy Museum in Dyersville, Iowa, is on two floors with 30,000 pieces in its collection. The museum attracts 25,000 people a year, and is open seven days a week, except major ...
Chris Karr of Seymour discusses the collection of more than 1,000 farm toys that he is displaying at the antique farm equipment show at the Cross County Mall in Mattoon.
GOFF ? As a child, Melvin Swart kept his toys with the care of an adult. As an adult, he collected toys with childlike enthusiasm.The extensive collection of this farmer who never outgrew his ...
LE MARS, Iowa -- Le Mars, Iowa, has long been known as the "Ice Cream Capital of the World." However, this northwest Iowa town is also home to another hidden gem, the Le Mars Toy Store.
The Paxton-Buckley-Loda FFA chapter tapped into the craze 35 years ago and will hold its annual farm toy show Saturday, Feb. 10.