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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.

 

 
Approach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front view
 
Sheep rotational grazing - 2 of 3R. Robotham - 1Researchers at Brownrigg AgricultureAlex Knob - Plant - 9Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.7DSIR Newsletter - Number 18 - Date: 24 March 1980Spaced plants at Grasslands - 5 of 7Adjustments to the hose lines of a tractorL. Harris - 1Ants Roberts and Stewart LedgardVegetable display - 1 of 2Ryegrass - 6Engineering workshop - 68Nikau palmOngaonga - Field stop - 1Engineering workshop - 49Tension crack above a slipAlan Tutton Johns (1917-1997)Paraparamu BeachJohn Brock - 2Plant innoculation with virusEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/60/1Kernels - 1Dr Mitchell - 3Orthopterous eggsMafTech fruit - 3 of 10Massey Ferguson harvesterGleditsia - Te Puke - 8Dairying at Levin - 2 of 4Soil Chemistry Laboratory - lidded jarsGrowth chamber - 2 of 2Invermay Libraryvan Kraayenoord correspondencePrimary bushLab staff at workMichael John Burke - monumentSheep in paddockBruce Levy - 2Sunlight at a switchTaita Experimental Station. 4.Beef drenching at Aorangi - 2 of 2Engineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/9Lamb tailing at Tara Hills. 1. Tailing a lambHand pollinating - 2 of 2% of full stainable pollen - 1 of 2Gorse close up - 2G. Latch - 2Wallaceville - PolarimeterStaff and students of the Ruakura Farm of InstructionFeed input variance and effect on efficiency
 
 
 
 
 
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