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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
 
Sheath & mesophyll chlaoplastsRay Brougham - 2Engineering Workshop - image No. 81/705/2Engineering Workshop - image No. 91/280Sheep in the turnip field - 4 of 6Te Awa aerial landscape viewOperation table - Sheep - 4Perennial Ryegrass seedLamb tailing at Tara Hills. 1. Tailing a lambDamaged white clover MafTech animals - 5 of 7Goat staring into cameraCow eating Matua prairie grassMafTech fruit - 1 of 10Staff party - 1Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 13 of 13Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 10 of 14New Zealand DSIR Newsletter - July 1963Biochemical Processing Centre - 30Dr Mitchell - 5Biosensors TeamFarm types by output percentageRata (A) - Rimu (B)Four sheep grazingSeed bagAorangi Harvesting. 3. Close up of harvesting attachmentAnimal Nutrition Unit - 7 of 10Levy - 1Man viewing Wairua FallsTable Top Mountatin1940's Fire - 7 of 8Men and dogs - 1 of 3Intensive mating blocks at Tara Hills - 2 of 2Peter JarvisBee pollinating - 3 of 4Hillside sheep - 1 of 7Cattle feeding on silage - 4 of 6Seed cleaning mill with staffSpaced plants at Grasslands - 6 of 7DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 5 - 12 April 1990Mr. Corkill at work - 1DSIR - Field Services Building at Palmerston North - under constructionPropagation tray - 1 of 2Ballantrae - B25Sheep filing down a steep slope in hill countryBallantrae dam - 6Ballantrae - B72Sir Bruce LevyLaboratory - 2Starlings. 2. Clutch of starling eggs
 
 
 
 
 
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