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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
 
Land Development - 4Test tubes holding plants - 2Data and legends: 50 years of Invermay, 1949-1999Plants in plastic propagation pots - 1 of 4Wright Stephensons at GrasslandsMafTech vinesSoil sampling 4: how not to mix samples: reverse of cardSpaced plants - C1668 and C1153Pithomyces chartarum sporePresentation to Togo JohnstoneDSIR - Grasslands News - July 1991 - Issue No. 10GlasshousePaddocks of Number 2 Dairy, RuakuraCallus - 4Building construction - 1955 - 2Biochemical Processing Centre - 11DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 4 - 28 February 1989Sheep grazing a forage cropNo. 1 type willow mattress. 2. Directly after completionWool roomLevin Horticultural Research Centre. 1. From the main entranceHeadquarters - 4Engineering workshop - 61Wallaceville Antique BellowsKaikohe Farm 1959 - 3 of 13Engineering Workshop - image No. 83/344Oliver tractor - 3Dr Mitchell - 5Enoch (Bruce) Levy (1892-1985) in 1950Cows in paddock on Field DayTaita Experimental Station. 4.Leaf litter - 2Urine sample. 1. Urine that is a dark red/brownCabbage treesIan WarringtonBlood samples from deer at Invermay - 3 of 3Dr. Shearer's visit - 3Masterton show - 1988 - 1 of 10DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 17 - 19 October 1989Mr. Thurston - 3Masterton show - 1988 - 9 of 10Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 3 of 14Scientist inspecting sheep's teethMafTech - 1 of 18Wool Metrology - 5 of 7Punch card data entryMowed paddockWallaceville - Table of Laboratory Conversion FactorsContainment crate for plants and cropsRuakura Farm of Instruction: Fields and paddocks. 3. South-west section
 
 
 
 
 
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