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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.

 

 
Approach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front view
 
DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 1 - 25 January 1990McCormick Farmall TractorOxidation pond Mass Spectrometry Building - GrasslandsSpray dipping. 2. Sheep in holding area outside spray penThe Store, Grasslands. 6. Chemical storeThreshingR.G. (Graham) Bell (1943-2023) in a studio portrait, 1998Engineering Workshop - 1Derelict sheep dipsPerennial ryegrassDSIR - Grasslands News - July 1991 - Issue No. 10Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: Preamble pageTuritea stream - new cut - 2 of 4Early Grasslands site - 4Biochemical Processing Centre - 2Bulldozed tracksFarmland - 3Wool Metrology - 6 of 7Heifer's horn following removalPipe smokerBloat Research Christmas CardClover plant - 2MafTech animals - 4 of 7Hill slopesBallantrae - B22Consultancy Conference - 2 of 5B. Forde - 2Dunedin Parade with 'Invermoose'. 3. 'Invermoose' on paradeButter makingDr Kerr - 1Hawkes Bay Show - 1990 - 4 of 4Biochemical Processing Centre - 39Cricket match - refreshmentsTuritea stream - new cut - 1 of 4Sheep weighing. 4. Sheep exiting the weighing scalesBreeding bins Kereru - Head close upLand Development - 3Animal Nutrition Unit - 9 of 10Blood samples from deer at Invermay - 3 of 3Extent of digestibility in cowsSeasonal production graphBuilding a hay stackAnimal Health Division Display Caravan - 10 of 14Laboratory equipment - 1Early teat cup typesDr Mitchell - 5Tara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 3 of 8Glasshouse construction - 3
 
 
 
 
 
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