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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
 
B. sitchensis - Grasslands Matua - Prairie grass comparisonDrainage frame on a drained plot: close up: reverse of cardRuakura roll of honourBallantrae - B26Beef farmlets rotation chart. 2. Percentage of cropsDrainage frame on an un-drained plot: close-up: image and reverse of card Sheep with a value of 1600 guineasDSIR Newsletter - Number 20 - Date: 5 May 1980View over Ruakura paddocksMerino ram sale - 1988 - 1 of 7Turitea stream in flood. 3. Flooded paddocks and fencingSoil samples - testingVisitors inspect plotsWheat trial reports: Reporoa: Cover pageSheep weighing. 4. Sheep exiting the weighing scalesMeasuring cloverOxidation pond Farm types by output percentageBallantrae dam - 12Spray dipping. 3. Sheep in spray penFarmland - 4Man driving a tractor in fieldGlasshouse, GrasslandsMafTech fruit - 2 of 10D. Grant - 2Aerial spraying - 1Display plants - 1DSIR Newsletter - Number 12 - Date: 3 December 1979Field measurement. 4.First DSIR office in Palmerston NorthBanks Peninsula - Gully viewGleditsia - Te Puke - 7Sam GreenRyegrass - 5Turitea stream - 2Settlers home in North TaranakiMafTech display - 1 of 4Group portrait - 2Grasslands - Summer/Spring - 1958Landscapes - 3Crimson cloverEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/60/3Mr. Corkill at work - 2Threading tubeAorangi Harvesting. 2. Adjusting the harvesting attachmentSclerotinia minor_2 of 3Graham Wesley Butler (1928-2007)Recording dataDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 16 - 28 September 1989Establishment trial at Ballantrae
 
 
 
 
 
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