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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.

 

 
Cow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silage
 
DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 13 - 19 July 1989Soil Chemistry Laboratory - 6 of 6Emilio Ruz and Roger Ball inspecting plants in a glasshouseTuritea stream in flood. 3. Flooded paddocks and fencingSoil fertility displayConsultancy Conference - 3 of 5Pasture treading effects - 1 of 9MafTech questionDSIR Newsletter - Number 21 - Date: 19 May 1980Masterton show - 1988 - 10 of 10Display plants - 1Engineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/6Ruakura Multi-Oriface Air Flow MeterRay Bailey - 1 of 2Soil profiles - 1 of 3Rows of grassesTemperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 5. Farm 1, hard to clean machineSheep stocking rate + cattleTara Hills lamb tailing - 9 of 9MIRINZ Christmas dinner, 1962: menu booklet with full menuObserving grazing behaviourM. Clark - 2Wallaceville - Cambridge rocking microtone knife - Outside caseBiochemical Processing Centre - 13Display boards - Grasses - 3 of 3Glasshouse construction - 5Growth chamber - 1 of 2Reading documentsBiochemical Processing Centre - 4Sheep rotational grazing - 2 of 3MafTech - 12 of 18AgResearch Invermay Agricultural CentreLeaf squash - 3 of 4Maurice Gray and Dick LucasInvermay Soil Laboratory. 1. Scientist working on the Technicon AutoAnalyserConstruction of a culvertSheep wearing dung return devicesSheep tethering using full body straps: front and side viewJim Bolger - 3Bull testiclesMIRINZ Christmas dinner, 1962: menu bookletDSIR Newsletter - Number 27 - 11 August 1980Engineering Workshop - image No. 84/42/5Alex Knob - Plant - 6Field day pumpkins - 3 of 3Ryegrass headGorse - 3DSIR Newsletter - Number 1 - Date: 2 July 1979MAFTech News - Date: November 1990Man viewing an area of ferns
 
 
 
 
 
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 Ruakura Ryegrass Scientists Seeds Sheep Silage Social life Soil Staff Statistics Surgery Tables Technology Testing Tractors Trees Trials Turf Vegetables Vehicles Visitors Wallaceville Waterways Weeds Wheat