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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
 
Engineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/7DSIR - Forage and fodder crop productionSpaced plants - C1153, C1067 and C1527Field days computer - 2 of 3Clover plants - 2International Science Congress at Massey UniversityAerial spraying - 1D. Edmond - 2Water tap icicle - 1 of 2Small Animal House: front view: close-up, 1Field day carrots - 1 of 7Cow - dung - 2Operating table (Sheep). 2. Anaesthetised sheepDr Barclay - 2Early types of teat cup linersMan driving harvesterBallantrae - B31Aorangi Lowland Research Station - an introductionDiggingA.O. Taylor - 3Brownrigg - Field tourDisplay boards - Grasses - 2 of 3Levin Horticultural Field Day - 1 of 11Clover - sectioningThreshing a Nucleus broad red clover stackVegetable display - 2 of 2HaycropEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/108/3M. Clark - 2Bovine trichomoniasis: breeding history, 1946-1948Théodore Mine - Potash buildings in the background - FranceSpray dipping. 1. Power spray unitDisplay plants - 2Cotula turf and the bowling green - 6 of 8Eroded cliff face - 1Hobsonville, Papakura - 1Clover floretsMasterton show - 1988 - 4 of 10Gray scale - 3Before planting, after plantingMerino ram sale - 1988 - 5 of 7Miss D.E. WalkerHawkes Bay Show - 1990 - 3 of 4Grasslands construction - 4Phosphate - 1Plant Breeding GroupStarlings. 1. Starlings in flightGoat staring into cameraHand pushed tillerEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/156/2
 
 
 
 
 
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