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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 yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, Ruakura
 
Dairying at Levin - 3 of 4Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: Preamble pageMafTech - 1 of 18Leaf squash - 3 of 4Ballantrae - B15Valley - 1947Cows near DargarvilleEngineering Workshop - image No. 78/359/2Mowing turf trials - 2 of 4DSIR Newsletter - Number 15 - Date: 11 February 1980Groynes. 5. Clearing the waterwaySam GreenTable Top MountatinOperating table (Sheep). 3. Jock Allison performing surgery on a sheepHow much grass do cows eat?McCormick Farmall TractorCarcass dressingMafTech animals - 4 of 7Gray scale - 1G. Latch - 2Microscopic plant cell - 2% of full stainable pollen - 2 of 2Biochemical Processing Centre - 25Sheep with tripletsWheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.16Invermay Farmers Conference 1970 - 7 of 9Engineering Workshop - image No. 81/610/3Levy - 5Ploughed landRoot measurements: 1. Differences in root growthTordon spray trial - 5 of 5Measuring a cow's output of dungMike Christensen - 1988 - 1 of 2Temperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 3. By milkingBiochemical Processing Centre - 12Yearly growth scoreTwo balls of earthwormsSowing gully floor. 3. Gully floorFarmland - 1Bruce Levy - 2New Zealand DSIR Newsletter - June 1963Field day pumpkins - 2 of 3Dunedin Parade with 'Invermoose'. 3. 'Invermoose' on paradeDSIR Newsletter - Number 8 - Date: 8 October 1979Te Ara - PlantingEngineering workshop - 69L. Corkill - 6Animal Production - 1991 - 3 of 6D. Edmond - 4Consultancy Conference - 5 of 5
 
 
 
 
 
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