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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.

 

 
Approach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front view
 
Library extension on a truck, passing ReceptionOliver tractor - 2Ballantrae - B22Hillside sheep - 3 of 7Construction of a culvertEngineering Workshop - 10Wairua FallsMowing preparationBiochemical Processing Centre - 53Sheep in the turnip field - 4 of 6Grasslands DivisionGray scale - 1M. Beardsall - 3Restraining table for ramsPipe installation - 5Groynes. 9. Triangular plantingDr SlackPipe smokerDoug Ryan, Greg Lambert, Gavin Sheath and Tony RhodesEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/156/6Gully control by bulldozing. 5. Work completedChine removal machine: saw arm and mount: general assemblyStream bank erosion near Grasslands campus bridgeField measurement. 1.Effect of twice-yearly shearing on fleece cottingGully control by bulldozing. 2. Gully floorTara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 5 of 8Grasslands - Levy BuildingShelter trees - 2Animal Production - 1991 - 3 of 6Cam S.W. Reid with glassOtaki ForksO. sativus x O. compressus - 5Mature prairie grass on Rawhiti Station Headquarters - 4van Kraayenoord correspondenceInvermay Farmers Conference 1970 - 6 of 9Groynes. 1. Overflow at the groyneEwes stocking the sunny and shady faces of paddocks - 4 of 4Construction at Grasslands - 1Biochemical Processing Centre - 41Tower Block, Ruakura, under construction and with its frame erectedTe Awamutu silage - 2 of 2E. SucklingColin Brown and Ron LaveDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 2 - 15 February 1990Drainage frame on an un-drained plot: close-up Ballantrae - B40Effect of mature rape plants on first row of turnipsTemperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 8. Temperature and growth relationships
 
 
 
 
 
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