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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
 
1940's Fire - 7 of 8Relationship between lambing percent and cottingRuakura roll of honourFlower bed in bloom, Campbell Block, RuakuraBuilding - on the move - 1Soil profiles - 1 of 3Backfilling the observation pitTick nymphs amongst deer hairNational ParkEngineering Workshop - 5Chris Freke (1937-2018)Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 10 of 14Motorbikes on Old West RoadBayer Classic 1987 - 6 of 6Grasslands staff membersBallantrae - B74DSIR - Grasslands News - February 1992 - Issue No. 13Nikau palmMAF National Field Day - 4 of 4Car in fieldStaff at work - 2Scientific measurementEnoch (Bruce) Levy (1892-1985) in 1950Engineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/8Prairie grass on Rawhiti Station: close upFarmlet species trial - 6 of 11Sheep tethering using full body straps: side viewBallantrae - B76Ranstead and others in the Ruakura LibraryWallaceville - Entrance HallwaySheep - FencelineGrasslands Library extension being moved onto its siteSclerotinia minor_2 of 3Dr H.A. Eagles with maize strainsBiochemical Processing Centre - 14Biochemical Processing Centre - 55Cow - dung - 1Sir Bruce and Lady Levy with childrenDairying at Levin - 3 of 4Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 3 of 13The Store, Grasslands. 5. Store itemsLaboratory - 1Tara Hills lamb tailing - 9 of 9Arapuni FallsPasture treading effects - 3 of 9Gleditsia tree_2.jpegFirst deer to arrive at InvermayWeighing apparatus for in-field dry matter determinationMasterton show - 1988 - 10 of 10Mangels - Bay of Plenty
 
 
 
 
 
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