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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.

 

 
Cow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silage
 
Sir Bruce and Lady Levy with childrenRecording dataRuakura Farm of Instruction: Fields and paddocks. 3. South-west sectionMerino ram sale - 1987 - 5 of 5Field workersKernels - 1Biochemical Processing Centre - 35Grasslands plots - 1 of 7Grasslands plots - 6 of 7Engineering workshop - 28C.P. McMeekan (1908-1972) sitting at a deskEarly Grasslands site - 6MafTech fruit - 9 of 10Measuring cloverWallaceville equipment - 2Pasture treading effects - 3 of 9Bloat and Mastitis Research at Ruakura Agricultural Research CentreScrub land with pumice coverWallaceville - Brass bustYoung pollen grainsStarlings. 3. Starling held in handOrthopterous eggsGrasslands songMafTech animals - 2 of 7 Ec 26 - Ecotype collectionDSIR Newsletter - Number 11 - Date: 19 November 1979Ranstead and Wallace in the Ruakura LibraryAnimal Health Laboratory staffOngaonga farmerEngineering Workshop - image No. 77/146/2Aorangi Harvesting. 4. Hay balerErosion - 6DSIR Newsletter - Number 5 - Date: 27 August 1979Measuring a cow's output of dungDSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 14 - September 1987Gully control by bulldozing. 11. Site of No. 1 DamField day 1989 - 1 of 31940's Fire - 7 of 8Field day 1989 - 2 of 3Mr Anderson - 1Beef Sale Week - 5 of 5Tony Field measuring nitrogen in a paddockEffect of cotting as a two-tooth, on future production life time average: four tooth to six year oldBull testicles: reverse viewClover against a white background - 5Fodder cropErosion - 4Rumen - 2Ray Brougham - 2Leaf litter - 4
 
 
 
 
 
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