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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.

 

 
Scientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, Ruakura
 
Saurtorious balance microscopeMAF - Organic Horticulture at Levin Horticultural Research CentreSpaced plants - C1668 and C1153Clover plant - 1Multiple pregnancy testing in sheep. 4.Hand held soil moisture probeClover against a white background - 5Field measurement. 3.Research CouncilDavid Brownrigg and Phil TitherEngineering Workshop - image No. 81/705/2Prairie grass - single plants - AorangiA fertiliser broadcaster for small plots: rear detailGrasslands construction - 2Early Grasslands site - 6Farmlet species trial - 3 of 11Six clover potsDisplay boards - Grasses - 3 of 3Seedmatic seed drill - 1 of 2Extent of digestibility in cowsPathogen tested potatoesEngineering Workshop - image No. 80/351/2Non-irradiated N. alata pollenAnimal Nutrition Unit - 1 of 10Stevenson screen. 1. Holding up the front panelBallantrae - B14Microscopic plant cell - 5John Lancashire and visitors in new demonstration blockPeat swamp - old rootsDoug PhillipsHawkes Bay Show - 1990 - 3 of 4Tick nymphs amongst deer hairKernels - 1Tutira countryMafTech - 1 of 18No. 1 type willow mattress. 2. Directly after completionClover inoculation - 3MAF - Project managerSheep in the turnip field - 6 of 6Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/169/3Three men in a field examining the swardWallaceville roll of honourDr Barclay - 1Syd EastonBallantrae - B43MafTech animals - 1 of 7Trailer tank - 2Levin Horticultural Research Centre. 2. View from Kimberley RoadBiochemical Processing Centre - 10D. Grant - 3
 
 
 
 
 
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