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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.

 

 
Farmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisure
 
Test tubes holding plants - 2Engineering Workshop - image No. 78/359/1Gully control by bulldozing. 1. Bulldozing the headBayer Classic 1989 - 4 of 4Wallaceville roll of honourSeed headsWheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.7Threshing a Nucleus broad red clover stackBill KearnsSpaced plants at Grasslands - 1 of 7Engineering Workshop - 6Syd EastonCast evacuationR. Ball - 3Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 10 of 13Guthrie-Smith's house - 1 of 2Plan of Ruakura Agricultural Station, 1904Tara Hills lamb tailing - 4 of 9Respiration - graphVisitors on the Grasslands site - 1Aerial photographEffect of nutrition on cottingBayer Classic 1989 - 3 of 4Car in fieldSyd Duncan and a Bomb CalorimeterBruce Levy and staffDSIR - Grasslands News - October 1990 - Issue No. 2Plots: Reveille, Taptoe and G. RuanuiLandscape and erosionBayer Classic 1987 - 1 of 6Organic potting mix displayBallantrae - plotsMAF - Precise irrigation managementEngineering workshop - 34Whatawhata landscape. View 4Growth chamber - 1 of 2Wallaceville - Cobalt GunEngineering Workshop - 2Docking of a lambDSIR - Information on Electron MicroscopyInvermay Farmers Conference 1970 - 6 of 9Bayer Classic 1989 - 2 of 4Sheep grazing paddocks - 1 of 12Grasslands plots - 7 of 7Test tubes holding plants - 5Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 4 of 13Entomology Conference - 1978Alpaca herdBeef Sale Week - 4 of 5MIRINZ Christmas dinner, 1962: menu booklet with full menu
 
 
 
 
 
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