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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.

 

 
Howard Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950's
 
Burning of turf - 1 of 2DSIR - Ground Levelling at Palmerston NorthOperating table (Sheep). 3. Jock Allison performing surgery on a sheepThreading tubeDr Jackman - 3Mystery Creek - 1 of 4Otaki stoney countryAmino Acid AnalyserCertified seed - 10 of 11Hemarthria altissimaDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 19 - 7 December 1989MAFTech News - Date: November 1988DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 13 - 19 July 1989Adjustments to the hose lines of a tractorTara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 6 of 8Lionel Corkill's departure celebrationTenderometerMilk recording apparatus, Number 4 Dairy, RuakuraInvermay Farmers Conference 1970 - 4 of 9Tower Block, Ruakura, under construction and without its roofButter makingDSIR Newsletter - Number 29 - Date: 15 September 1980Wallaceville - ScaleEngineering Workshop - image No. 89/330/2Headquarters - 1DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 12 - 28 June 1989Gully control by bulldozing. 2. Gully floorSocial cricket game - 3 of 4Unidentified plants - 1Engineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/8Cows and a tractor Biochemical Processing Centre - 2Lab studentsDSIR Newsletter - Number 13 - Date: 17 December 1979Clover plants - 1DSIR - Applied Biochemistry Division Building1940's Fire - 8 of 8Petri dish - 2Slip sowing - 4 of 5Biochemical Processing Centre - 22Kereru - Hemiphaga novaesslandiaeScientist - unidentified - 6Tutira countryFancy dress - 2Clover - 1Clover - sectioningRay Bailey - 2 of 2Man viewing Wairua FallsEngineering workshop - 64Mowing turf trials - 2 of 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 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