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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
 
D. Edmond - 4Punch card data entryDSIR Newsletter - Number 20 - Date: 5 May 1980Kaikohe Farm 1962 - 1 of 4Gully control by bulldozing. 4. Aerial viewProf Hudson from Massey - 1 of 2Engineering Workshop - image No. 77/146/1Drainage frame on an un-drained plot: close up: reverse of cardEngineering workshop - 42Biochemical Processing Centre - 15Ac clover - 1Colin Brown and Ron LaveAmino Acid AnalyserEngineering workshop - 45Gathering clippingsWheat trial reports: Marton Experimental AreaTemperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 4. Farm 2, easy to clean machineVisitors on the Grasslands site - 1Ballantrae dam - 15Eroded cliff face - 1MIRINZ Christmas dinner, 1962: menu booklet front pageEngineering workshop - 76DSIR - Insect ResearchLandscapes - 5Clover leaf, V brokenBallantrae - B74DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 11 - September 1986Cows in shedBlood samples from deer at Invermay - 2 of 3Ballantrae landscape - 2TIKI cattle squeezeDepartment of Agriculture (Research Division) research centres, stations, and areasHaymaking breaktimeGrubbing gorseD. Edmond - 6Men and dogs - 3 of 3Kernels - 2Urine sample. 2. Urine in a glass jar with metal screw top lidBiochemical Processing Centre - 44Turitea stream - 1966 - 3Engineering workshop - 73Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: Preamble pageRyegrass - 2Dr. Shearer's visit - 4Levy - 5Grasslands plots - 6 of 7Earthworms. 3. Flat wormO. sativus x O. compressus - 9Whanga townshipWinchmore Farm buildings: aerial view
 
 
 
 
 
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