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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
 
Wallaceville Animal Ethics CommitteeEarly Grasslands site - 3DSIR Newsletter - Number 23 - Date: 16 June 1980Mechanical tree planting. 3. Mechanical auger drill pieceScientists climbing Mount Hector, New ZealandAgriculture displayCast evacuationW. HarrisBallantrae - B33Field days computer - 3 of 3Banks PeninsularDanuser tractor - 1Ballantrae - B39Plimmerton marram dunesEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/60/3The Store, Grasslands. 5. Store itemsGleditsia tree - 1Ballantrae - B4 Ruakura: The story of New Zealand's Agricultural Research HeadquartersDr Jackman - 1Sclerotinia minor_2 of 3Derek Woodfield and Colin BrownGorse - 1Dr McEwen - 2Edmon Wong and Cecil B. JohnsonMafTech fruit - 3 of 10West Coast roadWool Metrology - 4 of 7Main drive - Massey Agricultural CollegeRay Brougham - 1Merino ram sale - 1987 - 5 of 5Sheep wearing dung return devicesOliver tractor - 4Silage pit coverEc 26 - Ecotype collectionMafTech - 3 of 18Merino ram sale - 1987 - 4 of 5L. Corkill - 6Wairoa districtWheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.8B.E. Talboys opening the Tower Block, RuakuraOliver tractor - 3Docking and castration of lambsSheep weighing. 3. Recording the dataBefore planting, after plantingClimate room - diagramSheep grazing paddocks - 9 of 12Oliver tractor - 5Backfilling the observation pitR. Robotham - 2
 
 
 
 
 
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