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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
 
Typical Whanga countryClover - roots - 2Haymaking - North AucklandConsultancy Conference - 4 of 5Oliver tractor - 3Viewing the Winchmore-Lyndhurst irrigation schemeAnimal Nutrition Unit - 10 of 10Biochemical Processing Centre - 42Prime Minister Lange opens Invermay Main BuildingEarly Grasslands site - 2MAF - Levin Horticultural Research Centre BrochureLindsay Wallace (1918-1991)Engineering Workshop - image No. 82/282/3Danuser tractor - 2Gully control by bulldozing. 8. Filling runnelsGrasslands view from the Massey water towerAerial top dressing planeLeaf litter - 5Grasslands plots at Hardie Street site Engineering Workshop - image No. 91/280Spaced plants at Grasslands - 1 of 7Open Day gathering at InvermayLevin Horticultural Research Centre. 1. From the main entranceEffect of the season on cottingMerino ram sale - 1988 - 2 of 7SilageFarmlet species trial - 9 of 11Tractor clearing scrubField day pumpkins - 2 of 3Cut section - tree branchWheat trial reports: Reporoa, M.A. SickfoldMerino ram sale - 1987 - 4 of 5Ruakura Farm of Instruction: Fields and paddocks. 3. South-west sectionClover floretsDSIR - Grasslands News - February 1991 - Issue No. 61940's Fire - 3 of 8Groynes. 6. Stone crate groyneDavid BrownriggErosion - 5Callus - 4G. Latch - 2% Respiration graph - 1Feed input variance and effect on efficiencyGlasshouse, GrasslandsThe Store, Grasslands. 5. Store itemsBiochemical Processing Centre - 14Scientific equipment - unidentifiedDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News - 22 March 1990Glasshouse construction - 6DSIR Newsletter - Number 18 - Date: 24 March 1980
 
 
 
 
 
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