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 ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - 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. His hobby has grown to a point ...

ARCADIA, Neb. (KOLN) - Farm machine sheds often house more than just tractors. In a recent trip to Arcadia, we got a closer look at one producer’s collection of pedal tractors and much more. Bruce Ash ...

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 ...

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 ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - 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. Dean King says he started collecting the ...

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 ...

MATTOON — Vintage John Deeres, International Harvesters and other tractors drew crowds of visitors to the Cross County Mall on Saturday for the East Central Illinois Antique Farm Equipment Club's Farm ...

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. ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — The Fishel family know all about tractors. “When you are a little boy, a tractor is so big. You’ve never seen something like it,” said Wesley Fishel, who is the fourth ...