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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
 
Gully head control, from aboveHand pollinating - 1 of 2BoatingEffect of cotting on greasy fleece weight: wet ewes onlyEarly Grasslands site - 10Ballantrae cows - 7Preparing plotsGarry Waghorn performing surgery on a sheepBallantrae - B70Levin - sandsSoil Chemistry Laboratory - 3 of 6Ballantrae Farm forest blocks and speciesScientists climbing Mount Hector, New ZealandIntensive mating blocks at Tara Hills - 2 of 2Aorangi Lowland Research StationGrasses - 5MafTech - 18 of 18Haycart - 2 of 2David Brownrigg and Phil TitherGlasshouse, GrasslandsTe Awamutu silage - 2 of 2Slip sowing - 3 of 5Demolishing the glasshouseMAF - Levin Horticultural Research Centre MapsCows grazing50 years of research and recreation at RuakuraSoil Chemistry Laboratory - lidded jarsInvermay Soil Laboratory. 1. Scientist working on the Technicon AutoAnalyserGroup portrait - 1Building construction - 1955 - 2Scaffolding on a Grasslands building - 2Engineering Workshop - image No. 81/610/2Lester Fletcher examining ryegrassDavid BuxtonMultiple lamb birthsRainfall at Te Awa - 1948-1968Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.18Cows in paddocksTropical grasses - Temperate grasses - graphPlant breeders at workBanks PeninsularMafTech animals - 5 of 7Engineering workshop - 48Sowing seedSheep wearing urine capturing devicesClover - roots - 5Rows of grassesWhanga - general viewMafTech goats - 5 of 7Beef Sale Week - 4 of 5
 
 
 
 
 
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