National Farm Toy Show

By Sam Moore
Published on February 23, 2009
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The National Farm Toy Museum.
The National Farm Toy Museum.
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The official toy of the 2008 National Farm Toy Show: a 1/32-scale Allis-Chalmers 7580 tractor made by Ertl.
The official toy of the 2008 National Farm Toy Show: a 1/32-scale Allis-Chalmers 7580 tractor made by Ertl.
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Assembling 1/64-scale toy tractors at Scale Model Toys.
Assembling 1/64-scale toy tractors at Scale Model Toys.
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An outside vendor’s display table.
An outside vendor’s display table.

In November 2008, I attended the National Farm Toy Show in Dyersville, Iowa, with a couple of friends.

Both of these guys are keen collectors of farm toys, and one is also heavily into pedal tractors.

This was my first trip to the Dyersville show: I’m not really a toy collector, although I do have 20 or so toy trucks, cars and tractors sitting around.

Dyersville, a small town of about 4,000, styles itself as the “Farm Toy Capital of the World,” because of the presence of the famous Ertl Co., toy manufacturers Scale Model Toys and SpecCast, and the National Farm Toy Museum.

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