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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.

 

 
Howard Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950's
 
Men and dogs - 3 of 3Merino ram sale - 1988 - 3 of 7Farm of Mr Frank J. FarrellWheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.3Cattle feeding on silage - 5 of 61940's Fire - 4 of 8Prince Charles in long grass at InvermayPerson viewing landscapeTara Hills lamb tailing - 2 of 9Te Awa aerial landscape viewInvermay campus - 1 of 3M. Clark - 1Anderson ValleySoil Chemistry Laboratory - 2 of 6DSIR Newsletter - Number 17 - Date: 10 March 1980Spray dipping. 2. Sheep in holding area outside spray penSlash - Turitea stream - 2Bee pollinating - 2 of 4Stacking cropMass Spectrometry Building - GrasslandsClover - roots - 3Aorangi Farm Open Day. 8. MIRINZ Christmas dinner, 1962: menu booklet with full menu (PDF)Soil Chemistry Laboratory - 5 of 6Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 11 of 14Engineering Workshop - 9Bone scrappers, RuakuraEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/108/2Approach to the Farm Office, RuakuraEnsilage - Working horsesBallantrae site aerial viewTom Fraser and Gavin SheathGrasslands Division Staff portrait - 1955Groynes. 3. Breakthrough of waterJersey cows in a yard penWeighing apparatus for in-field dry matter determinationAgResearch Invermay Agricultural CentreSilage silhouetteMafTech landscapes - 1 of 4Taranaki - cowsAorangi Farm Open Day. 7. Gore - BrassicaWaimarie - paddle steamerEngineering Workshop - image No. 85/431/2Arapuni - 5 of 8Soil sampling 3: quartering the sample: reverse of cardO. col & O. lacunsa (closeup foliage) + snowgrassEngineering Workshop - image No. 83/344Invermay Farmers Conference 1970 - 1 of 9Lotus plant roots
 
 
 
 
 
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