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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
 
Dr McEwen - 1Spaced row plantingMafTech - 13 of 18Levin Horticultural Research Centre. 3. View of the Tararua ranges in the backgroundBeef drenching at Aorangi - 2 of 2Ballantrae site aerial viewStaff at work - 1Turitea stream - 1Hawkes Bay Show - 1990 - 4 of 4View over Ruakura paddocksAlex Knob - Plant - 8Sheep - FencelineLevin Horticultural Field Day - 9 of 11Levy - 1Managing Biological SystemsFarmlet species trial - 7 of 11Warren Williams - 1Approach to the HomesteadWhite cloverHand pollinatingO. sativus x O. compressus - 2Grasslands staff membersSpaced plants at Grasslands - 3 of 7Clover leaves, V pointCar at pumping stationTuritea stream in flood. 1. General viewTataruimaka silage pit - 1 of 2Merino ram sale - 1988 - 2 of 7Engineering workshop - 71New Zealand DSIR Newsletter - May 1963Wallaceville equipment - 3Erosion - 6Petri dish - 2D. Grant - 2Pig husbandry. 5. Carcase quality: a pig industry instructional filmAerial farmingPloughing scrub - 3 of 3MowingPlimmerton marram dunesRestrained cowEngineering workshop - 51Compiling photosEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/409/5Animal Nutrition Unit - 10 of 10Wooden twin-pole head vice for sheep tetheringCows - grazing - 2Red deer stagGully control by bulldozing. 7. ScouringPhosphate factoryD. Edmond - 6
 
 
 
 
 
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