Time For Spring
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Spring has arrived and farms across North America are turning over their soil and seeding their acres in hopes of a prosperous 2009. This month we have an action packed issue for you covering all things spring related in the farm toy hobby.

Toy Tractor Times has some great videos on display farming and an impressive remote control John Deere 9630. There several great articles on a variety of new tractors on their way for 2009 including the new 1/16 Toy Tractor Times Massey Ferguson 65 and an all new tooling of a 1/64 John Deere 8850 4wd by Ertl. There are also some spring implement articles on highly collectible seeders including a 1/16 Great Plains grain drill and a very rare and detailed White corn planter.

You might notice there are even more pictures in the articles this month. We know you like pictures and our Toy Tractor Times photo gallery has grown to over 28,000 images. You can follow each and every new picture on Toy Tractor Times at www.toytractortimes.com/messageboard/images.html . Make sure to look for pdf brochures in some the articles this month where you can down load information about the real tractors like the Steiger Panther IV and New Holland T9060 Constant Power Plus.

Hopefully your real and model farms are off to a great spring season.

Until Next Times....

Jason and Stefanie Hasert




Toy Tractor Times Massey Ferguson 65 Preview
The Massey Ferguson 65 tractor and No. 62 plow are the 24th Toy Tractor Times model since 19...

2009 National Farm Toy Show Steiger Panther IV
The 32nd annual National Farm Toy Show tractor will be the Steiger Panther IV.  This excitin...

Keeping Current With 1/64: New Holland T9060 4wd
The 535 hp T9060 Constant Power...

Collecting 1/16: Fiat 44-23
Versatile is a well known 4wd t...

Spring Surprise From Ertl: 1/64 John Deere 8850
Ertl is well known for spring surprises in its toy tractor line up and 2009 is no exception. ...

Remote Control Power: John Deere 9630
Robert Denson of West Memphis , AR won first place in the 1/16 custom model contest at the 2009 S...

Down On The Model Farm With Jim Model
This month we go down on the model farm Jim O'Dell of Pollard, AR.  Jim set up his sout...

Getting Dusty
Clayton Lyon is a talented young model farm who showed his display at the 2009 St. Louis Farm Toy Sh...

1/64: John Deere 7800 Tractor Variations
Ertl’s John Deere 7800’s was one of the first releases that didn’t exclusively ...

Tractor Table
I always enjoy it when I can put my talents and creative interests to use for the benefit of a frien...

Deter's Amazing Corn Planter
Deters Supercast of Spring Grove, MN, produced an amazing 1/16 White 6180 corn planter. The ...

The Literature Rack: Allis-Chalmers Corn Planters
Allis-Chalmers was in the corn planter business for forty seven years.  The company offered ...

Fabricating Levers For International Tractors
One of the questions I am often asked by people who are new to customizing is "how do you ma...

Custom Tractor Stories: Spring 2009 At Henry Nikkel Farms Inc
Henry Nikkel Farms Inc is a farm display that is ge...