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Welcome to RECOLLECT

Welcome to the AgResearch Digital Legacy Collection

AgResearch Limited is a leading Crown Research Institute charged with delivering science and innovation to benefit New Zealand agriculture and its wider economy.

Formed in 1992, we have a history stretching back to the beginning of the 1900’s.

This unique collection represents a small sample of photographs, documents, videos and other material that will take you on a compelling journey through the history of New Zealand's pastoral legacy, reflected in our Company, its activities, and its people.

Browse or search our stunning archive, or register and you will be able to contribute your knowledge and memories about this material.

AgResearch Limited is proud to share this rich history of New Zealand's primary industry.

 

 
Scientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, Ruakura
 
Clover leaves, V fullTest tubes holding plants - 3Arbor Day at Te AwaE. McKenzie - 2Sheep in farm yard pensDSIR - Grasslands News - October 1990 - Issue No. 2Mystery Creek - 3 of 4Gully control by bulldozing. 2. Gully floorInvermay laparoscopy of sheep - 3 of 4Turitea stream - 1966 - 1Epiphyte establishmentSheep's teeth. 4. FilingBallantrae hill work - 1Kernels - 2D. Grant - 4Ballantrae - B39Clover root weevil: mediumTuritea stream - 2Aorangi Farm Open Day. 6. Haymaking - North AucklandField measurement. 1.Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.9MAF - Post-Harvest Technology BrochureThe Store, Grasslands. 9. Ground floor, rearBallantrae cows - 6Flock of sheep behind a fence lineCows in paddocksDSIR Newsletter - Number 17 - Date: 10 March 1980Berlese-Tullgren funnelsMerino ram sale - 1988 - 5 of 7MafTech fruit - 4 of 10Sheep grazing in paddockTurf seedlings - 1 of 4Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 13 of 13Ensilage stack from a 5 acre paddockEngineering workshop - 29Ballantrae - B61Animal Nutrition Unit - 4 of 10Leaf litter - 6Certified seed - 6 of 11Biochemical Processing Centre - 17Palmerston North Show - 4 of 5The Store, Grasslands. 4. Office areaSclerotinia minor - 3 of 3Camping beside riverAlex Knob - Plant - 2Sheep with tripletsDairy Farm at Levin - 2 of 3Certified seed - 3 of 11Tractors on the Grasslands site
 
 
 
 
 
Ballantrae Biochemical Processing Centre Buildings Campuses Cattle Clover Construction Cows Crops Diagrams Directors Diseases Ephemera Equipment Erosion Farm staff Farmers Farms Feeding Fertiliser Fields Glasshouses Graphs Grasses Grasslands Harvesting Horses Humour Insects Invermay Laboratories Lambs Landscapes Leaves Machinery MafTech Measuring Meetings Observation Open Days Paddocks Plants Plots Publications Restraint Roots Ruakura Ryegrass Scientists Seeds Sheep Silage Social life Soil Staff Statistics Surgery Tables Technology Testing Tractors Trees Trials Vegetables Vehicles Visitors Wallaceville Waterways Weeds Wheat