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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.

 

 

Approach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front view
 
Beef Sale Week - 4 of 5Gully control by bulldozing. 2. Gully floorModel 2903 disc drive computer and tapeTwo cars on country roadHow much grass do cows eat?Keith Steele Sheep standing up against a farm gateBulldozed tracksApplying compost. 1. Tractor with scoop of compostPhylloerythrinaemic or icterogenic photosensitisationFarmer and son standing in a field - 1 of 2Parapara road, Raetihi - sunny faceLandscape - country roadMountains - snowTony Field measuring nitrogen in a paddockDSIR Palmerston North - telephone numbers 1960Mystery Creek - 2 of 4Turf seedlings - 3 of 4DSIR - Games eveningMasterton show - 1988 - 2 of 10MafTech goats - 5 of 7Drainage frame on a drained plot: close up: reverse of cardTara Hills lamb tailing - 5 of 9Grasslands female staff members, 1958Ranstead and Wallace in the Ruakura LibraryLooking over Lyttelton Bay and Governers BayThresher 1952Bees and pollination - 2 of 2Arapuni - 3 of 8Cotula turf and the bowling green - 7 of 8Construction of the Grasslands wingTara Hills lamb tailing - 9 of 9Animal Nutrition Unit - 8 of 10Lotus uliginosus plotsHaymaking breaktimeLevin Horticultural Field Day - 6 of 11Tractor - Haywagon1940's Fire - 3 of 8Hillside improved and unimproved - Average of paddocks graphInvermay - wool bales - 1 of 2MafTech animals - 2 of 7 Chine removal machine: saw arm: leftMilk flow indicator: framed with index card (PDF)MafTech fruit - 8 of 10Ryegrass harvestingPeter JarvisSheep grazing paddocks - 10 of 12Turitea stream in flood. 7. Stranded carMowingDSIR - Soil Survey Office Palmerston North