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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
 
John Brock - 1Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.16Sowing gully floor. 3. Gully floorM. Beardsall - 3Mr. Corkill at work - 2Headquarters - 3L. Corkill - 1Ballantrae dam - 3Glasshouse construction readinessEngineering Workshop - 19Philips Norelco EM-200 Electron MicroscopeEnsilage and a covered hay stackJim Whyte and John HayArapuni - 4 of 8Ray Brougham - 1Erosion - 9Temperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 4. Farm 2, easy to clean machineEngineering workshop - 63Ballantrae - B63Glasshouse construction - 1Black and white cowsBeef rotational grazing at Ballantrae - 1 of 3Cows - grazing - 2DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 11 - September 1986Microscopic plant cell - 1MAF - Organic Horticulture at Levin Horticultural Research CentreTower Block, Ruakura, under construction and without its roofBeef Sale Week - 5 of 5Sheath & mesophyll chlaoplastsSettlers home in North TaranakiLevin Horticultural Field Day - 5 of 11Winchmore Farm buildings: aerial viewMafTech goats - 7 of 7Climate room - diagramMafTech leaders in horticultureHand pollinating - 1 of 2Three men in a field examining the swardFarmlet species trial - 1 of 11Lely Spring Tyne WeederMafTech display - 2 of 4MafTech goats - 4 of 7MAF - Precise irrigation managementSoil sampling 1: technique: reverse of cardMan and woman standing in front of a fallen tree.Ewes stocking the sunny and shady faces of paddocks along the Branch road - 1 of 4Seedmatic seed drill - 2 of 2Carbon bandingMafTech - 6 of 18Wallaceville equipment - 3Soil Chemistry Laboratory - 5 of 6
 
 
 
 
 
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