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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.

 

 
Approach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front view
 
Rainfall at Te Awa - 1948-1968DSIR Newsletter - Number 22 - Date: 3 June 1980Engineering Workshop - 2Effect of cotting on greasy fleece weight: wet ewes onlyOtaki ForksStaff of the Ruakura Farm of InstructionJersey cows in a yard penOtaki - swing suspension bridgeLand Development - 5The Store, Grasslands. 5. Store items1940's Fire - 8 of 8Cows in paddocksTe Awamutu silage - 2 of 2Merino ram sale - 1988 - 7 of 7Engineering Workshop - 12Operation table - sheep - 6A fertiliser broadcaster for small plots: box detailEarthworms. 2. Blackhead wormEight potsMAFTech News - Date: November 1989DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 14 - September 1987Aorangi Harvesting. 1. Driving the harvesterDSIR - Applied Biochemistry Division BuildingPerson viewing landscapeEngineering Workshop - 10Hillside sheep - 3 of 7Cattle feeding on silage - 3 of 6Dairy Farm at Levin - 3 of 3Male in field holding two giant swedesGroup photo - 2David BuxtonKaikohe Farm 1959 - 12 of 13Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.8Hillside sheep - 2 of 7MafTech fruit - 2 of 101940's Fire - 5 of 8Mastitis Melodies: a musical message to farmers: song bookTurf seedlings - 2 of 4Arbor Day at Te AwaNew Zealand DSIR Newsletter - July 1963Lucerne - Te TekoFlock of sheep behind a fence lineDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 18 - 9 November 1989Gateway to Number 2 Dairy, RuakuraSeedmatic seed drill - 1 of 2Seed headsLevin - sandsWool Metrology - 2 of 7Jersey cows under a large, wooden, herd shelterField day pumpkins - 2 of 3
 
 
 
 
 
Buildings Campuses Cattle Clover Cows Crops Diagrams Directors Diseases Ephemera Equipment Erosion Farm staff Farmers Farms Feeding Fertiliser Fields Glasshouses Graphs Grasses Grasslands Grazing Harvesting Horses Humour Insects Invermay Laboratories Lambs Land use Landscapes MIRINZ Machinery MafTech Measuring Meetings Milking Observation Open Days Paddocks Plants Plots Publications Rams Restraint Ruakura Scientists Seeds Sheep Silage Social life Soil Staff Statistics Surgery Tables Technology Testing Tractors Trees Trials Turf Vegetables Vehicles Visitors Wallaceville Waterways Wheat Worms