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 ...

John Gruber received his first toy tractor from his parents when he was born in 1947. Today, that toy is the oldest of the more than 1,000 pieces of toy farm equipment he and his wife Kathy recently ...

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 is anything but child’s play. They ...

RANDOLPH - There are some toys that arent just for children. Collecting farm toys is growing in popularity. Stuart Vander Galien, a dairy farmer who lives south of Randolph, has a special reason for ...

DYERSVILLE, Iowa — Do you have a kid obsessed with tractors? Do you find yourself craning to see tractors in the fields during the harvest? Does the sight of a tractor in action give you a warm ...

Two displays at a recent farm toy show in Wisconsin will be featured at the 46th National Farm Toy Show in Iowa A scene in the 90s scale model farm made by Greg Rand at the Cashton FFA Farm Toy Show ...

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 ...

Toy land is a real place. Step into the green and yellow confines of a remodeled horse barn in a corner of Kansas, and marvel at a time capsule in the form of a veritable toy museum, stocked with ...

Tim Talbert has loved farm toys for as long as he can remember. That’s what drove him to start the Central Maryland Farm Toy Show at the Carroll County Agriculture Center in Westminster 30 years ago. ...