Are you ready to rumble? The June 2007 Toy Tractor Times features AGCO and Tractor Pulling.
With roots that are firmly established in the North American farm equipment industry, AGCO Corporation has a heritage that reaches as far back as the mid-1800s through many of its brands. Its direct lineage is from the Allis-Chalmers brand name. The Allis-Gleaner Company (AGCO) got its start in 1990 with the purchase of Deutz Allis Corporation from German-based Kloeckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG. KHD, in turn, had purchased the Allis-Chalmers agricultural equipment business five years earlier. Since that time, AGCO has become a worldwide farm machinery company through market growth and strategic acquisitions. Today AGCO is a world leader with is corner stone brands of AGCO, Massey Ferguson, Challenger,Fendt, Gleaner, Sun Flower, White planters, AG-Chem, Spa-Coupe and Hesston Hay & Forage.
This month our AGCO feature has special Toy Tractor Times webisodes on the all new Challenger MT900B 4wd series, AGCO Tractors, AGCO-Allis and the first 10 Years of AGCO. There are also special articles on AGCO farm toys. Make sure to read Dave Tallon's creative article on making a custom AGCO DT Heritage set. There are three informative article on collecting AGCO-Allis tractors from Dan Adam, Jim Simpson and Jason Hasert. You will not want to miss Doug Harke's article on the early days of custom farm toys featuring Allis-Chalmers and Oliver tractors. Brian Long shares his custom 1/64 AC 440 4wds as well. Go Down on the Model Farm to see the display farms making the switch to AGCO tractors. Gordy Schultz's Literature Rack covers AGCO Tractor brochures for 2007.

When the AGCO Tractor Line debuted in 2001 the series slogan was "AGCO Ready to Rumble". The June Toy Tractor Times is ready to rumble with our annual summer look at pulling tractors. Our feature pulling tractor is the Shramek Pulling's Young Blood AGCO DT225. Michael Henry interviewed Danny Gottman of Gottman Toys about his range of pulling tractor toys. Jason Rhodes shares his experience of building 1/16 pulling tractors. Matt Hirtzel reviews the Gottman Toys new 1/16 New Holland 8260 Puller – “The Bomb� in Under the Scope. Brian Sharp and Matt Hollingshead share the 1/64 custom Allis-Chalmers pullers.

June is also time for the annual Summer Toy Show in Dyersville, Iowa. Toy Tractor Times has an interview with Bill Walters from Ertl Farm Toys on the new items featured at the Summer Show. There were 48 new farm toys released and announced by Ertl, Spec-Cast, Scale Models and DCP in June. See all the new items on www.toytractorshow.com.

Until Next Times.......
Jason and Stefanie Hasert