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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.

 

 
Cow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silage
 
Field days computer - 3 of 3Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.13Molecular GeneticsSheep grazing paddocks - 11 of 12Ballantrae - B32Gully control by bulldozing. 13. Secondary head in gully floorRuakura: aerial view from the south-eastDr Jackman - 1Robin S. ScottB.E. Talboys opening the Tower Block, RuakuraSoil Chemistry Laboratory - 6 of 6Pasture treading effects - 1 of 9New Zealand DSIR Newsletter - August 1963MafTech landscapes - 2 of 4Margot Forde - seeds - 3Ballantrae - B43Artificial lakeEngineering workshop - 35John James driving the Stanhay precision seeder at Aorangi - B&W versionPetri dish - 4Cotula turf and the bowling green - 5 of 8Kereru - Hemiphaga novaesslandiaeWool Metrology - 7 of 7Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 4 of 14Sheep tethering using a single paunch strapOperation table - Sheep - 5Temperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 6. Fluid flow relationshipsAlex Knob - view - 9Slip sowing - 1 of 5McCormick Farmall TractorMafTech animals - 6 of 7Repairs to farm equipment - 1 of 3Aorangi harvesting of Grasslands Matua Prairie grassBill KearnsMAF - Levin Plant Protection Centre Diagnostic and Consultancy ServicesSilage harvesterSheep wearing dung return devicesGray scale - 2Clover inoculantsCattle feeding on silage - 3 of 6Dr Barclay - 3Car park and Administration Building, GrasslandsMultiple pregnancy testing in sheep. 2.DSIR - Field Services Building at Palmerston North - under constructionBallantrae - B48AgResearch Invermay Agricultural CentrePithomyces chartarum sporeAorangi Farm Open Day. 7. Early Grasslands site - 7Valley - 1947
 
 
 
 
 
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