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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.

 

 
Scientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, Ruakura
 
Biochemical Processing Centre - 7DSIR Newsletter - Number 14 - Date: 28 January 1980Tordon spray trial - 2 of 5Soil moisture sensor. 1. In actionField day carrots - 6 of 7Airplane with carry loadDavid BrownriggBrownrigg Agriculture field dayPetri dish - 4Engineering workshop - 67Tom Fraser and Gavin Sheath1940's Fire - 6 of 8Clover leaves, V yellow tipC.P. McMeekan (1908-1972) sitting at a deskAlex Knob - view - 10Waimarie - paddle steamerSheep with a value of 1600 guineasCam and Kathleen Reid with Pat MangamAorangi Harvesting. 2. Adjusting the harvesting attachmentBallantrae - B69Ec 26 - Ecotype collectionBroken foreduneBiochemical Processing Centre - 17Tony Field measuring nitrogen in a paddock1940's Fire - 2 of 8DSIR Newsletter - Number 7 - Date: 24 September 1979Electron microscope - 1 of 3Engineering workshop - 35Clover leaves, V pointIntensive mating blocks at Tara Hills - 1 of 2Multiple pregnancy testing in sheep. 1.Seed Threshing MillSunlight at a switchAlex Knob - Plant - 5Cow - udderHillside improved and unimproved - Average of paddocks graphDSIR Newsletter - Number 29 - Date: 15 September 1980Eroded cliff face - 1Erosion - 9Annual ryegrassBeef plan display - 2 of 2Invermay Wool Lab - 1 of 2Hobsonville, Papakura - 2Damaged white clover Test tubes holding plants - 7Beef Sale Week - 1 of 5Farm output types by percentageDr Mitchell - 3Ryegrass in tube - 1Engineering Workshop - 15
 
 
 
 
 
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