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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 at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maize
 
Headquarters - 3Tara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 1 of 8Field measurement. 1.Starlings. 3. Starling held in handIndustrial plant - 1Engineering Workshop - 10Engineering Workshop - image No. 84/42/3Spaced plants - C1668 and C1153Saxby - Levy - GormanHawkes Bay Show - 1990 - 3 of 4E. McKenzie - 3Flashburn - River ValleySheep in farm yard pensTordon spray trial - 1 of 5Tall fescues - 2 of 2Clover against a white background - 3Mystery Creek - 1 of 4Flame weeder. 2. Tractor drivenBryan and Joanne GuySilage silhouetteClover root weevil: mediumBallantrae - B32Engineering workshop - 41Arbor Day at Te AwaSilage makingIntensive mating blocks at Tara Hills - 2 of 2Early Grasslands site - 10Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.18Dunedin Parade with 'Invermoose'. 1. Truck and flatbed trailer on road at a community eventSheep - FencelineWheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.4Sheep weighing. 2. Reading sheep weight as it steps on the scalesGlasshouse construction - 2Climate Laboratory - Floor mapAnimal Nutrition Unit - 3 of 10Flame weeder. 3. Rear viewLeaf litter - 5The Climate Laboratory, Palmerston NorthGroup portrait - 1MAF - Levin Horticultural Research Centre BrochureSclerotinia minor_2 of 3Cowshed, RuakuraCotula turf and the bowling green - 4 of 8Electron microscope - 3 of 3SeedLotus - close-up of seed heads - 2 of 2Engineering workshop - 46Puriri pastureTara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 3 of 8Scientific measurement
 
 
 
 
 
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