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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.

 

 
Farmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisure
 
Spaced plants at Grasslands - 7 of 7MafTech - 6 of 18Clover root weevil: smallInternational Science Congress at Massey UniversityAorangi Lowland Research StationGrasslands SEFTONTrifolium vesciculosumGully control by bulldozing. 7. ScouringBayer Classic 1989 - 1 of 4Invermay Farmers Conference 1970 - 9 of 9Engineering workshop - 43Ec 26 - Ecotype collectionClover root weevils eating white cloverCattle placentasTick nymphs amongst deer hairHemarthria altissimaAlex Knob - Plant - 7Oliver tractor - 6Mangels - Bay of PlentyJohn Lancashire and Ray BroughamApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/169/3Arthur DuncanWallaceville - Cobalt GunHawkes Bay Show - 1990 - 2 of 4TIKI cattle squeezeEngineering workshop - 26Temperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 1. Percent of bacteria types in milkEngineering workshop - 74DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 14 - 10 August 1989Leaf squash - 2 of 4Alan Henry Kirton (1933-2001), 1963MafTech - 13 of 18Ballantrae - B35Farmlet species trial - 10 of 11Ballantrae - B38MafTech display - 2 of 4Gleditsia - Te Puke - 12Growing turf in sandRanstead and Wallace in the Ruakura LibraryGorse close up - 1Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 8 of 13David BrownriggEffects of top dressingDisplay plants - 2Student appraising seedlingsBiochemical Processing Centre - 6Arbor Day at Te AwaEngineering workshop - 44New Zealand DSIR Newsletter - August 1963
 
 
 
 
 
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