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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
 
MAF International - 2 of 2Alex Knob - view - 7Poultry farmCattle feeding on silage - 2 of 6Paddocks - LandscapeGleditsia - Te Puke - 7MAF - Precise irrigation managementSoil Chemistry Laboratory - 4 of 6Mr. Thurston - 1Colin Brown and Ron LaveEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/42/2Clover plants - 2Rabbits on fenceSixteen clover pots - 2 of 2Flock House Farm forest blocks and speciesLevin Horticultural Field Day - 4 of 11Forestry stock use - PineEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/42/1Erosion - 13Ballantrae - B10Wool Metrology - 7 of 7Landscape near WellingtonMen and dogs - 1 of 3E. McKenzie - 1DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 8 - September 1985Ryegrass - 5Clover leaves, V fullPig husbandry. 4. Selection of breeding stockInvermay - wool bales - 1 of 2Grasses - 3Bayer Classic 1987 - 5 of 6Arthur DuncanDSIR - Grasslands News - June 1991 - Issue No. 9Wallaceville Eighty Year Anniversary StickersSheep tethering using a neck collar and rump strapOperation table - sheep - 6Man in fieldGully head control, from abovePlots - 3Kitty PeckBiochemical Processing Centre - 26Dr Barclay - 2Dr Mitchell - 2Kaikohe Farm 1962 - 2 of 4Early types of teat cup linersWheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.18Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/60/1Soil Chemistry Laboratory - 5 of 6Staff of the Ruakura Farm of InstructionTaita Experimental Station. 4.
 
 
 
 
 
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