Two displays at a recent farm toy show in Wisconsin will be featured at the 46th National Farm Toy Show in Dyersville, Iowa. A scene in the 90s scale model farm made by Greg Rand at the Cashton FFA ...
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. It may just be ...
On a steamy summer morning in 1995, Mitch Sisson’s past returned with a metallic clank, unceremoniously wrapped in a stack of letters and stuffed into the back of his mailbox. A work-day later, he ...
Dave Shaw says he graduated from Legos to farm toys when he was 7 years old. Though he never lived on a farm, the tractors, combines and trucks connected him to familial roots. Shaw's grandfather ...
The 46th National Farm Toy Show was recently held in Dyersville, Iowa. This grand event is steeped in history. An enterprising engineer by the name of Fred Ertl, Sr began building scale model toy ...
Michelle Blegen's inspiration as a farm-toy entrepreneur came as a mother who was unhappy with the flimsy plastic fences available for her children's make-believe livestock pens and corrals. That ...
Becker said it's challenging to schedule a farm toy show in Wisconsin, because there seems to be a show, somewhere in the state, on every weekend between the first weekend in November and planting ...
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. ...