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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 at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maize
 
Bagged potatoesBiochemical Processing Centre - 42Grasslands - Levy BuildingMr. UllyattD. Grant - 4Gleditsia - Te Puke - 8Tara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 3 of 8Engineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/9DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 7 - June 1985Soil profiles - 2 of 3 Certified seed - 4 of 11MAFTech News - Date: May 1989DSIR - Grasslands News - July 1991 - Issue No. 10Lely Spring Tyne WeederOperating table - sheep - 11Unidentified plants - 2Keith Steele Turitea stream - 1966 - 5Mountains - snowOperating table (Sheep). 3. Jock Allison performing surgery on a sheepFarm participantsOccupancy of DSIR Buildings in 1960Sclerotinia minor - 1 of 3D.E. (Doug) Wright appointed Director, MIRINZ (TIFF)Wallaceville Laboratory Block: architectural drawingsDr Jackman - 3Engineering Workshop - 14DSIR - Grasslands DivisionWarren Williams - 2SheepRay Brougham (1926-1993)DSIR Newsletter - Number 16 - Date: 25 February 1980Engineering workshop - 56Biochemical Processing Centre - 53Eroded cliff face - 2Margot Forde - seeds - 1Operating table (Sheep). 2. Anaesthetised sheepDSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 29 - December 1989Turitea stream - 1966 - 2Biochemical Processing Centre - 18Threading tubeElectron microscope - 1 of 3Leaf squash - 1 of 4GlasshouseHaycropGully control by bulldozing. 2. Gully floorDoug Ryan, Greg Lambert, Gavin Sheath and Tony RhodesBallantrae - B19Cannulated cowSeedmatic seed drill - 2 of 2
 
 
 
 
 
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