In a market where flash is king, some simple toys continue to endure and thrive. This year marks the 50th anniversary of two of them — Slinky and Ertl farm toys. Slinky, that spiral steel toy that ...

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 ...

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 ...

The toy tractors and an assortment of tractor manuals and instruction books were owned by the late Alf Smith of Eaton Constantine, near Shrewsbury. They attracted a lot of interest when they went ...

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 ...

Cathy Scheibe, at 82, of LaMoure, North Dakota, continues with Toy Farmer Magazine, more than 22 years after her husband and co-founder, Claire, died. She talks about how the company is changing and ...