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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 yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, Ruakura
 
Measuring bagged grass clippingsCertified seed - 3 of 11Dairy cow with facial eczema lesionsTara Hills lamb tailing - 9 of 9MAF National Field Day - 4 of 4MafTech display - 1 of 4Tara Hills lamb tailing - 1 of 9DSIR - Ground Levelling at Palmerston NorthScientific lab glasswarePlots: Spanish, Ariki, Ruanui and ManawaDSIR Newsletter - Number 12 - Date: 3 December 1979D. Grant - 3Field day carrots - 1 of 7Gleditsia - Te Puke - 5Forestry stock use - PineApplying compost. 1. Tractor with scoop of compostIntensive mating blocks at Tara Hills - 1 of 2Sporidesmin research staff group portraitGrasses - 4L. Corkill - 3Establishment trial at BallantraeMerino ram sale - 1988 - 4 of 7B.J. FordeBerlese-Tullgren funnelsOngaonga farmerBiochemical Processing Centre - 25Whare - 1920Gorse - 3MafTech - 11 of 18Ballantrae - B41Palmerston North Show - 3 of 5Ballantrae - B64Land and seascape - New ZealandPasture treading effects - 4 of 9Engineering Workshop - 13Engineering workshop - 45Levin Horticultural Research Centre. 2. View from Kimberley RoadBiochemical Processing Centre - 44Field day pumpkins - 3 of 3Mystery Creek - 1 of 4Te Wera & WhangaOtaki - looking towards the seaPasture treading effects - 1 of 9Hillside sheep - 6 of 7Wool Metrology - 6 of 7Clover plants in a glasshouseMafTech fruit - 2 of 10The Store, Grasslands. 7. Material storeSmall Animal House: front viewRanstead and others in the Ruakura Library
 
 
 
 
 
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