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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.

 

 
Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31
 
Bee pollinating - 1 of 4Kaikohe Farm 1962 - 1 of 4Display plants - 4Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/169/2Leaf litter - 1Building - on the move - 1Wheat trial reports: Marton Experimental AreaRay Brougham (1926-1993)Headquarters - 2Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/156/6Engineering Workshop - 1Engineering Workshop - 2Invermay Farmers Conference 1970 - 7 of 9DSIR - Plant Physiology Division Valedictory DinnerBee pollinating - 4 of 4Red SeedoMatic, Massey Ferguson 590 series, row-crop tractorRoot measurements: 3. LucerneClover - 3Water tap icicle - 1 of 2Type e callus - 1Engineering Workshop - 4Glasshouse construction - 2Margaret di Menna (1923-2014)Ballantrae landscape - 3Sheep at leisureLabelled bundles of rootsDSIR Newsletter - Number 6 - Date: 10 September 1979Spraying fieldsBallantrae - B42Palmerston North Show - 1 of 5Preparing turf plots of sowing - 2 of 2Peter VliegAorangi Harvesting. 2. Adjusting the harvesting attachmentPerennial ryegrassMAF Consultancy ServicesPloughing scrub - 3 of 3Results of fertiliser application in early potato trialsOliver tractor - 5Ballantrae - B49Romney Marsh - SheepDavid Ritchie and David BrownriggDSIR Palmerston North - Campus NewsPipe installation - 5Mr ThurstonMafTech - 16 of 18Dr Mitchell - 1Waterlogged paddockBayer Classic 1987 - 4 of 6Engineering Workshop - 7Field day 1989 - 2 of 3
 
 
 
 
 
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