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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
 
Soil Chemistry Laboratory - lidded jarsClover - 3E. McKenzie - 2Cyril Armstrong and Peter Barclay examining grass in a fieldMafTech - 17 of 18Mr. UllyattGrazing trial - Paddock 3Engineering Workshop - image No. 84/42/4Erosion - 6DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 3 - 8 March 1990Gleditsia tree - maleVine leaves with leafroll virusDamaged white clover: close-upThe Store, Grasslands. 8. Glassware and miscellaneous materialDirectors' Meeting - Plant Physiology DivisionLevin Horticultural Field Day - 5 of 11Lotus - close-up of seed heads - 2 of 2Kaikohe Farm 1962 - 1 of 4Sheep - rape plant digest trial - 1 of 2PaekakarikiMan viewing an area of fernsM. Beardsall - 2Engineering workshop - 62Paddocks of the Gore Research StationKaikohe Farm 1959 - 6 of 13Seasonal production graphSheep in single leg restraintScientist - unidentified - 6New Zealand DSIR Newsletter - December 1963Turf seedlings - 4 of 4Joanne and Jim InglisFarmer and son standing in a field - 2 of 2Biochemical Processing Centre - 9Hand pollinating - 2 of 2Collecting seedSheep grazing on prairie grass on Rawhiti StationFuchsia excorticata - scaling barkMafTech fruit - 7 of 10E. WilliamsPlan of the trees at RuakuraPlots: Reveille, Taptoe and G. RuanuiDr. Shearer's visit - 2Car on bush trackTrifolium vesciculosumWeighing apparatus for in-field dry matter determinationDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 7 - 24 May 1990Mangels - Bay of PlentyMechanical tree planting. 1. Tractor and mechanical augerDSIR Newsletter - Number 17 - Date: 10 March 1980Cam S.W. Reid with glass
 
 
 
 
 
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 Ruakura Ryegrass Scientists Seeds Sheep Silage Social life Soil Staff Statistics Surgery Tables Technology Testing Tractors Trees Trials Turf Vegetables Vehicles Visitors Wallaceville Waterways Weeds Wheat