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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.

 

 
Farmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisure
 
Groynes. 1. Overflow at the groyneConsultancy Conference - 2 of 5Measuring total dung output of a free grazing cowScientists, 1950'sGorse close up - 1Grazing sheep Petri dish - 1Scaffolding on a Grasslands building - 2Cotula turf and the bowling green - 5 of 8Wool roomTara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 7 of 8Ballantrae - B3Female - TechnicianPlotsBallantrae - B26Spaced plants - G4709Ac cloverMeasuring a cow's output of dungEarly Grasslands site - 10TenderometerField workersAorangi Lowland Research StationDSIR Palmerston North - telephone numbers 1960Ballantrae cows - 3Sheep grazing paddocks - 5 of 12DSIR Newsletter - Number 17 - Date: 10 March 1980Earthworm root experiment. 2. View of the fieldBryan and Joanne GuyBallantrae - plotsNo. 1 type willow mattress. 3. Seven months after completionClover leaves, V pointCast evacuationDamaged white clover: close-upScientists at CarisbrookSeed Threshing MillDSIR - Grasslands News - December 1990 - Issue No. 4Grasslands - main building room plan - 1966Danuser tractor - 1Peter JarvisBanks Peninsula - Gully viewBallantrae - B54Ba seed cropBallantrae dam - 8Sheep grazing paddocks - 2 of 12Kaikohe Farm 1962 - 1 of 4Gore - BrassicaClover - roots - 5Te Wera & WhangaAlan Stewart, Peter Kemp, Garry Waghorn and Alison PopayInvermay laparoscopy of sheep - 2 of 4
 
 
 
 
 
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