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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.

 

 
Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31
 
Field workerOxidation pond Digging an observation pitEngineering Workshop - image No. 82/367/2Erosion - 13Seed crop - BaGorse close up - 2Glasshouse, GrasslandsDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 8 - 14 June 1990DSIR - Grasslands News - June 1991 - Issue No. 9Invermay Farmers Conference 1970 - 7 of 9Spray dipping. 3. Sheep in spray penRata (A) - Rimu (B)G. Latch - 3Earthworms. 3. Flat wormAlex Knob - Plant - 8Sorting seeds in the laboratoryEwes stocking the sunny and shady faces of paddocks along the Branch road - 1 of 4Scientists - unidentified - 5Derek WoodfieldSixteen clover pots - 2 of 2A fertiliser broadcaster for small plots: side viewMAFTech News - Date: November 1988Biochemical Processing Centre - 24MafTech fruit - 5 of 10Arbor Day at Te AwaBiochemical Processing Centre - 45Sheep grazing paddocks - 3 of 12Agriculture displayHawkes Bay Show - 1990 - 1 of 4Hillside sheep - 5 of 7Playgianthus betulinasKaikohe Farm 1959 - 6 of 13Clover - roots - 9Professor K.W. (Ken) ClarkJim Melville (1908-1984)Cows in yardMafTech animals - 2 of 7 Pakowhai poplar groveLevy - 5Camping beside riverRobertson Air ServicesLeaf litter - 5Percentage infection in plantsCollecting seedSoil sampling 4: how not to mix samples: reverse of cardGroynes. 4. Protection of polesAkaroa townshipChoice chambersBrown top grass: close-up
 
 
 
 
 
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 Ruakura Ryegrass Scientists Seeds Sheep Silage Social life Soil Staff Statistics Surgery Tables Technology Testing Tractors Trees Trials Turf Vegetables Vehicles Visitors Wallaceville Waterways Weeds Wheat