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Greetings from Dyersville! It’s August in Northeast Iowa. Time for sweet corn and baseball games. In case you haven’t heard the big announcement already, the Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees will be playing a major league game in Dyersville, Iowa in August of 2020 out at the Field of Dreams. I can’t wait to see if they can pull this off. Work is starting soon on a stadium that c …

Greetings from Dyersville! I can’t believe it is already July. Where is the summer going.. I had a good time talking to some of you at the Summer Farm Toy Show. We were able to show you some new items, including all the “Farm Show” units for the various OEMs. (I’ll talk more about these below.) One of my goals is to get to all 99 counties in Iowa. I was also able to take a quick vacati …

Greetings from Oak Brook! Bill Walters was kind enough to hand over his #26 blog edition to me. My name is Pete Henseler and I am President of TOMY. I’ve been involved with the Ertl brand for over 22 years. Over these many years, I have become quite a fan of the hobby and of you, the Farm Toy collectors. At the heart of it all is a wonderful and vibrant community of passionate people and …

Greetings from wet Dyersville! March finally has brought us some warmer weather which helped melt all of our snow. Unfortunately it did cause some flooding. Mother Nature does whatever it wants and we have to deal with it.. On my 12th blog I announced that I was a grandpa. Lucy has done lots of growing since October 2017. She now officially has more hair than me, especially on the top of …