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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
 
Opening of the Plant Chemistry Laboratory, Grasslands, 1946. 2. Taking refreshmentsEffect of twice-yearly shearing on fleece cottingHeadquarters - 4Effect of cotting on greasy fleece weight: wet ewes onlySorting - 1Construction of the Grasslands wingPrairie grass - single plants - AorangiC.P. McMeekan (1908-1972) looking into the cameraTara Hills lamb tailing - 2 of 9Biochemical Processing Centre - 48Farmall model tractor making silageColin Brown and Ron LaveBaling hay in CanterburyDirectors' Meeting - Plant Physiology DivisionSheep tethering using a neck collar and rump strapApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraTuritea stream - 1966 - 5Ballantrae - B18Relationship between lambing percent and cottingWhatawhata landscape. View 2Clover flowersBiochemical Processing Centre - 42Sheep - rape plant digest trial - 1 of 2Broken foreduneSoil profiles - 1 of 3Clover root weevils eating white cloverSocial cricket game - 1 of 4MafTech - 18 of 18Engineering Workshop - image No. 82/367/3Clover - flower - 1DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 13 - 19 July 1989Petri dish - 5DSIR - Grasslands News - April 1991 - Issue No. 8DSIR - Games eveningOperation table - Sheep - 8Microscopic plant cell - 2DSIR - Grasslands News - February 1991 - Issue No. 6Plane on tarmac with two menGrasslands view from the Massey water towerMan driving a tractor in fieldPaekakariki - contoursEngineering workshop - 57Goats used in gorse controlMafTech - 14 of 18Hillside sheep - 3 of 7Non-irradiated N. alata pollenSilage pitEnsilage making in the Auckland provinceGavin Milne, Grant Douglas and Garry WaghornGlasshouse construction - 9
 
 
 
 
 
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