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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
 
Spray dipping. 1. Power spray unitBiochemical Processing Centre - 47Dr Barclay - 2Fodder crop in fieldAgResearch Invermay Agricultural CentreClover against a white background - 5Grasses - 1Taita Experimental Station. 9.Campus buildings at Invermay under constructionClover - roots - 5Farmlet species trial - 11 of 11MafTech - 2 of 18Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.13Kereru - Hemiphaga novaesslandiaeFlame weeder. 4. Hand heldGore - clover - 3Field day 1989 - 2 of 3DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 5 - 14 March 1989Ongaonga farmerDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 12 - 28 June 1989Ac cloverValley - 1947Erosion - 1070 year old pasturesFirst DSIR office in Palmerston NorthRumen - 3DSIR - Gore Research StationBiochemical Processing Centre - 9Hillside sheep - 2 of 7Lionel Corkill's departure celebrationSam GreenTemperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 8. Temperature and growth relationshipsTiller formationMolecular Genetics Laboratory, GrasslandsGorse close up - 1Chinese Scientists from ShansiBiochemical Processing Centre - 33Tordon spray trial - 5 of 5Applying compost. 2. Spreading compost with pitchforksEight potsFlame weeder. 2. Tractor drivenCows and a tractor Wallaceville Laboratory Block: site planPasture treading effects - 2 of 9Beef rotational grazing at Ballantrae - 3 of 3Microscopic plant cell - 3Landscape - country roadNew Zealand DSIR Newsletter - July 1963Ballantrae - B45Engineering workshop - 45
 
 
 
 
 
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