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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.

 

 
Howard Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950's
 
Wool roomKaikohe Farm 1962 - 4 of 4Gore - clover - 2C.P. McMeekan (1908-1972) in a studio portrait, smokingBiochemical Processing Centre - 6DSIR - Grasslands News - February 1991 - Issue No. 6Beef Sale Week - 4 of 5Merino ram sale - 1987 - 2 of 5Ballantrae landscape - 2Ballantrae dam - 13Biochemical Processing Centre - 36Lamb tailing at Tara Hills. 1. Tailing a lambDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 2 - 15 February 1990Sheep in the turnip field - 5 of 6Tractors at work on Kaikohe farmWallaceville equipment - 2Ballantrae - B24Puriri pastureDSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 13 - April 1987Lely Spring Tyne WeederMowing turf trials - 2 of 4Cocksfoot - spaced plantsGeneral view of Grasslands - 1946Lotus plant rootsSir Bruce and Lady Levy with childrenPiggery, RuakuraScientist - unidentified - 1Clover plants in a glasshouseBallantrae - B65DSIR - Field Services Building Palmerston North MAF - Post-Harvest Technology BrochureNo. 1 type willow mattress. 3. Seven months after completionInvermay laparoscopy of sheep - 3 of 4Silage silhouetteMiss D.E. WalkerDr Daniel Cohen with propagating traysEngineering Workshop - 17DSIR Newsletter - Number 27 - 11 August 1980Biochemical Processing Centre - 48Engineering workshop - 54Ballantrae - B5Erosion - 8Chine removal machine: saw arm: leftEnsilage making in the Auckland provinceEngineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/9Bovine trichomoniasis: calving percentage, 1932-1947Weatherboard buildings - original Invermay campusFlower bed in bloom, Campbell Block, RuakuraEngineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/8Operation table - Sheep - 5
 
 
 
 
 
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