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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
 
Brownrigg Agriculture Field StopHillsidesMob of cattle in a muddy paddock: close-upD.E. (Doug) Wright (1931-2023)Motorbikes on Old West RoadRay Brougham - 3Nikau palmGrasslands - Autumn/Winter - 1958Field day carrots - 7 of 7Certified seed - 5 of 11Prince Charles in long grass at InvermayBallantrae - B61Fibre farming displayCattle - holding paddockSigning of the Seed Agenting Marketing AgreementA fertiliser broadcaster for small plots: close-upWarren Williams - clover evaluationAnimal Production - 1991 - 3 of 6Wood batten fencesSheep in the turnip field - 4 of 6Plant Breeding GroupInvermay laparoscopy of sheep - 2 of 4Mountains - snowAssorted seedsData and legends: 50 years of Invermay, 1949-1999O. sativus x O. compressus - 1Taita Experimental Station. 8.MAF - Precise irrigation managementAorangi Lowland Research StationKaikohe Farm 1957Table Top MountatinCattle feeding on silage - 1 of 6Ballantrae - B36Plots: Reveille, Taptoe and G. RuanuiLotus - Maku root developmentFront entrance sign to Ruakura Animal Research StationWheat trial reports: Reporoa: Preamble pageTara Hills lamb tailing - 7 of 9Pugging damageClover - stemTractor on siteTillers beginning to dieJ.D. Cowie - 1Garry Waghorn performing surgery on a sheepGully control by bulldozing. 4. Aerial viewAlex Knob - view - 770 year old pasturesGrasslands Library extension being moved onto its siteTotal earthworm burrowsBallantrae Farm forest blocks and species
 
 
 
 
 
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