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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 at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maize
 
Sheep in wooden twin-pole head vice: side viewModel 2903 disc drive computersMargot Forde - in group - 3Levy - 3Ruakura Multi-Oriface Air Flow MeterBiochemical Processing Centre - 14Aerial dusting - 2Engineering Workshop - image No. 81/705/1Temperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 4. Farm 2, easy to clean machineTony Field measuring nitrogen in a paddockMafTech display - 1 of 4Tara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 5 of 8Unidentified plants - 3MafTech fruit - 7 of 10Testing seed germinationGleditsia - Te Puke - 13Divisional Directors, DSIR, GrasslandsBlood samples from deer at Invermay - 3 of 3Tataruimaka silage pit - 1 of 2Venison Tasting Panel. 2. Smelling the aroma of a fork full of venisonSoil moisture sensor. 2. Working in the fieldDSIR Newsletter - Number 22 - Date: 3 June 1980Clover seedlings infected by fungusEffect of length of time between shearings on cottingRandy Rummell and Mike Tate with deerInvermay Farmers Conference 1970 - 2 of 9Consultancy Conference - 5 of 5DSIR - Grasslands News - May 1992 - Issue No. 14More than 200 years of science!Motorbikes on Old West RoadG. Latch - 2Wool Metrology - 4 of 7Sheep - rape plant digest trial - 2 of 2Engineering workshop - 52Saxby - Levy - GormanBallantrae landscape - 1Wallaceville Specimen BucketSheep grazing paddocks - 7 of 12Gore - clover - 1Visitors inspect plotsBuilding frameBreeding bins Taihape - typical landscapeEarly Grasslands site - 2Manawatu GorgeScientists, 1950'sGorse - 1DSIR - Field Services Building Palmerston North L. Corkill - 1Sixteen clover pots - 1 of 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