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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
 
Alan Henry Kirton (1933-2001), 1963Dunedin Parade with 'Invermoose'. 2. Signage for 'Invermoose' Animal of the FutureMastitis Melodies: a musical message to farmers: song bookDSIR - Grasslands News - May 1992 - Issue No. 14Haymaking - North AucklandBallantrae - B76Airplane - 3 menBiochemical Processing Centre - 10Engineering workshop - 57Building - on the move - 1Clover root weevil: largeGleditsia - Te Puke - 6Alex Knob - view - 10Ballantrae - B70Jim Inglis and wife, Malcolm Guy and Maurice YorkBuilding a hay stackGrowing turf in sandBee pollinating - 3 of 4MafTech animals - 4 of 7Ballantrae cows - 4Wallaceville Antique BellowsConstruction of a culvertSoil Chemistry Laboratory - 6 of 6Relationship between Bradford Count and cottingBallantrae - B8Glasshouse construction readinessOperation table - Sheep - 8Men and dogs - 2 of 3Engineering workshop - 75Ballantrae dam - 1Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/169/31940's Fire - 8 of 8Mouse-ear hawkweedJohn James driving the Stanhay precision seeder at Aorangi - B&W versionTara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 7 of 8ASR 700 model 732 word processorElectron microscope - 1 of 3Engineering workshop - 56Clover - roots - 3Robin S. ScottSheep in the turnip field - 2 of 6Gel electrophoresisDr. Shearer's visit - 4Pasture treading effects - 7 of 9DSIR Newsletter - Number 14 - Date: 28 January 1980Cow in a cattle crushSpirometra tapeworm larvaWallaceville Animal Ethics CommitteeKaikohe Farm 1962 - 3 of 4Female staff in 1948
 
 
 
 
 
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