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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
 
Loafing barnBee pollinating - 3 of 4Wheat trial reports: Reporoa, M.A. SickfoldEngineering workshop - 39Display boards - Grasses - 2 of 3Field days computer - 3 of 3Grasslands Library extension being manoeuvred past Building 13Leaf squash - 2 of 4Taita Experimental Station. 4.Mr. Corkill at work - 2Tordon spray trial - 4 of 5Taking soil samplesProfessor K.W. (Ken) ClarkCows in yardClover - 3Ballantrae - B58Arapuni - 2 of 8Plimmerton marram dunesBiochemical Processing Centre - 20Invermay campus - 1 of 3Whanga - landscapeClover against a white background - 6Cotula turf and the bowling green - 5 of 8Erosion - 12House on hill slopeBiochemical Processing Centre - 42Aorangi Farm Open Day. 8. Playgianthus betulinasEngineering workshop - 70Hugh McGarveyJudy Fisher working in the laboratoryLeft hand - 2Erosion - 11Preparing rowsPrimary forest before fellingBallantrae - B8Jack Ranstead (1859?-1944)Grasslands - Summer/Spring - 1958Soil Chemistry Laboratory - JarNon-irradiated N. alata pollenTaita Experimental Station. 8.J.D. Cowie - 1Groynes. 8. Triangular planting in baysRelationship between Bradford Count and cottingRyegrass - 8Keith Steele Gleditsia - Te Puke - 10Hill slope - damDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 3 - 8 March 1990Engineering workshop - 31
 
 
 
 
 
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