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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.

 

 
Cow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silage
 
Engineering workshop - 61Engineering workshop - 42Gleditsia - Te Puke - 12Sheep weighing. 3. Recording the dataErosion - 13Two balls of earthwormsLand Development - 2D. Edmond - 4DSIR - Grasslands News - September 1991 - Issue No. 11Brownrigg AgriculturePrince Charles in long grass at InvermayDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 3 - 8 March 1990Animal Nutrition Unit - 4 of 10D. Grant - 1Earthworm population samplingBiochemical Processing Centre - 37Digging an observation pitField day 1989 - 1 of 3Effect of mature rape plants on first row of turnipsDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 4 - 28 February 1989Group portrait - 2Tom Fraser and Gavin SheathSocial cricket game - 4 of 4Field workersRear of building, Massey Agricultural CollegeBruce Levy - 5Molecular BiologyDSIR Newsletter - Number 5 - Date: 27 August 1979Early teat cup typesAlex Knob - Plant - 3ThreshingBiochemical Processing Centre - 49Landscapes - 5Drainage frame on an un-drained plot: close up: reverse of cardSeed bagClematis flowersWaiomanu hay barnLamium purpurcumUnidentified plants - 1Hillside sheep - 5 of 7Ballantrae - B49Beef drenching at Aorangi - 2 of 2Early Grasslands site - 9Clover root weevil: mediumThe Climate Laboratory, Palmerston NorthRay Brougham - 5Greg Lambert (1948-2022) with black locust shrubGleditsia tree with podsMafTech - 5 of 18MAF National Field Day - 1 of 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