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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
 
Pugging damageWool Metrology - 5 of 7Engineering workshop - 42Repairs to farm equipment - 2 of 3Industrial plant - 1D. Grant - 4Sam GreenEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/348Operating table (Sheep). 2. Anaesthetised sheepEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/60/3Levy - 1Spirometra tapeworm larvaBryan GuyCows near DargarvillePlants in plastic propagation pots - 4 of 4DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 14 - September 1987John van den Bosch with white clover and chicoryEwes stocking the sunny and shady faces of paddocks along the Branch road - 1 of 4Gorse close up - 1Lucerne - Te TekoClover seedlings in a test tube rackDiggingBayer Classic 1987 - 4 of 6Man in bush areaDSIR - Grasslands News - October 1990 - Issue No. 2Whanga - general viewJohn LancashireGleditsia tree_2.jpegRay Brougham - 3Clover leaves, four-leaved cloverPetrie - 3A fertiliser broadcaster for small plots: side viewBallantrae - B71Biochemical Processing Centre - 35O. sativus x O. compressus - 7Scientists - unidentified - 5Tara Hills lamb tailing - 2 of 9Waiomanu hay barnLevin Horticultural Research Centre. 2. View from Kimberley RoadMafTech fruit - 7 of 10MAF - Organic Horticulture at Levin Horticultural Research CentreGrasslands name as a logoAorangi Farm Open Day. 6. Bruce Levy - 5Silage pit cover1940's Fire - 2 of 8Tractor trailerMafTech fruit - 8 of 10Wallaceville - Brass bustVan Arche's land at Tuki Tuki
 
 
 
 
 
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