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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.

 

 
Sheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, Ruakura
 
Timothy grass: close-upMob of cattle in a muddy paddockJames EvansEngineering Workshop - 10A/51/5Cattle weaning - 3 of 4Tara Hills lamb tailing - 4 of 9DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 11 - 14 June 1989Dr Kerr - 3Cotula turf and the bowling green - 8 of 8Australian Dairy Farmers - Hay stackRotational grazing of dairy cowsLevin Horticultural Field Day - 6 of 11Wilting experiment - 2 of 4Dairy Farm at Levin - 1 of 3Erosion - 12Animal Production - 1991 - 6 of 6Ec 26 - Ecotype collectionGray scale - 2DSIR Newsletter - Number 15 - Date: 11 February 1980Cotula turf and the bowling green - 7 of 8Effect of the season on cottingBallantrae - B27Field measurement. 3.Edmon Wong and Cecil B. JohnsonAerial spraying - 2Keith Joblin looking in a microscopeBanks Peninsula - Gully viewDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 1 - 25 January 1990Grasslands Ruanui perennial ryegrass (Lofium perenne L.) - S. 23 UK- comparisonEngineering Workshop - image No. 82/282/4MafTech landscapes - 4 of 4Seasonal production graphDigger preparing site - 1Taita Experimental Station. 10.Dr Daniel Cohen with propagating traysFour sheep grazingEngineering workshop - 43Erosion - 11Sheep - rape plant digest trial - 2 of 2Stevenson screen. 2. Checking the instrumentsWheat trial reports: Marton Experimental AreaCattle - holding paddockPhosphate - 3Female group portraitElectron microscope - 1 of 3Non-irradiated N. alata pollenKaikohe Farm 1959 - 8 of 13Wright Stephensons at GrasslandsForestry stock use - PineFarmlet species trial - 6 of 11
 
 
 
 
 
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