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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.

 

 
Sheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, Ruakura
 
K.K. PandeyDSIR Newsletter - Number 15 - Date: 11 February 1980Six clover potsEffect of cotting as a two-tooth, on future production life time average: four tooth to six year oldBallantrae - B72Silage pit construction - 2 of 2Kauri regenerationClover floretsGray scale - 250 years of research and recreation at RuakuraHay stackPlots - 1Turf seedlings - 1 of 4Type e callus - 1Engineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/9Levin Horticultural Field Day - 10 of 11Divisional Directors, DSIR, GrasslandsB. Forde - 2Dr Mitchell - 3Erosion - 7Ballantrae - B28Seedmatic seed drill - 2 of 2Alan Henry Kirton (1933-2001), circa 1980Jim Bolger - 4Statisticians generating punch cardsKaikohe Farm 1959 - 2 of 13Electron microscope - 1 of 3MafTech goats - 2 of 7Bayer Classic 1989 - 1 of 4Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 10 of 14Sowing seedBallantrae dam - 15Masterton show - 1988 - 6 of 10Ruakura - image No. 1041/51/4Erosion - 9Effect of the season on cottingMike Christensen - 1988 - 2 of 2Forestry stock use - PineGum tree, RuakuraDr. Latch and John LancashireGuthrie-Smith's house - 2 of 2Invermay Farmers Conference 1970 - 4 of 9Arapuni - 1 of 8Grass - Clover - 2Engineering workshop - 51Leaf squash - 1 of 4Paspalum - Amaranthus - Perennial Rye GrassBiochemical Processing Centre - 48D.E. (Doug) Wright appointed Director, MIRINZ (PDF)Concrete culvert
 
 
 
 
 
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