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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
 
PlotsTower Block, Ruakura, under construction and with its frame erectedEstablishment trial at BallantraeMr. Thurston - 2M. Beardsall - 1Loafing barnScientists climbing Mount Hector, New ZealandKowhai regenerationDr Mitchell - 2Ruakura: aerial view from the south-eastAorangi Harvesting. 3. Close up of harvesting attachmentSoil sampling 3: quartering the sampleGully control by bulldozing. 9. Secondary head developmentOxidation PondsOliver tractor - 7Digitaria sanguinalisGrasslands under construction in 1953Biochemical Processing Centre - 8Biochemical Processing Centre - 14Sheep weighing. 3. Recording the dataEngineering Workshop - image No. 77/146/1Engineering Workshop - image No. 80/351/4Massey Ferguson harvesterCallus - 1Sheep grazing on prairie grass on Rawhiti StationHerbage workers at desksGrasslands Ruanui perennial ryegrass (Lofium perenne L.) - S. 23 UK- comparisonData and legends: 50 years of Invermay, 1949-1999Construction at Grasslands - 1Turitea stream in flood. 6. General floodingBiochemical Processing Centre - 39Playgianthus betulinasBulldozed tracksBiogas flasksKaikohe Farm 1959 - 4 of 13Pasture treading effects - 3 of 9Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 7 of 13Rotational grazing in the Waikato regionDSIR - Soil Survey Office Palmerston NorthMasterton show - 1988 - 7 of 10Ballantrae landscape - 3Results of fertiliser application in early potato trialsFarmlet species trial - 9 of 11Tutira countryGleditsia - Te Puke - 2Engineering workshop - 38Sheep in single leg restraintSwardMafTech - 4 of 18Mystery Creek - 1 of 4
 
 
 
 
 
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