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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
 
Sheep grazing on prairie grass on Rawhiti StationBallantrae - B39Winchmore Farm and the Canterbury PlainMAF - Levin Horticultural Research CentreDSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 27 - July 1989Ballantrae - B31Models - ScienceSpaced plants at Grasslands - 4 of 7Clover - roots - 9Landscapes - 1Cricket match - refreshmentsClose up - plant - 3Invermay campus - 3 of 3DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 6 - 3 May 1990Earthworms. 2. Blackhead wormBallantrae - B68Wallaceville PlaqueLeaf squash - 2 of 4Non-irradiated N. alata pollenDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 17 - 19 October 1989Ballantrae - B11Ruapehu viewGrasslands staffRearing dairy calvesL. Corkill - 2Early teat cup typesClover - 1958 - 1Ballantrae - B74Jim Whyte and John HaySmall Animal House: front view: close-up, 2Jim Bolger - 2Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/60/4/ATemperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 7. Chemical formulasRoot measurements: 3. LucerneMassey Ferguson harvesterTara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 4 of 8Adjustments to the hose lines of a tractorMafTech display - 2 of 4Clover plant - 1DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 9 - 5 July 1990Robin S. ScottWhatawhata landscape. View 3Soil sampling 3: quartering the sample: reverse of cardRyegrass - 8Eroded cliff face - 1Displayed bumblebeesSheep grazing paddocks - 8 of 12Engineering workshop - 21Social cricket game - 4 of 4Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/60/2
 
 
 
 
 
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