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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
 
Sheep rotational grazing - 3 of 3Wallaceville Specimen BucketAnts Roberts and Alec MackayClover against a white background - 2Bevin CornwallBiochemical Processing Centre - 35Biochemical Processing Centre - 55Spraying cropsEngineering workshop - 40Tordon spray trial - 3 of 5Mesophyll plastid meso cytoplasmEngineering workshop - 61Grasslands - main building room plan - 1966Grasslands - Summer/Spring - 1958Drainage frame on an un-drained plot: close-up: image and reverse of card Ballantrae - B71Biochemical Processing Centre - 16M. Beardsall - 3Alex Knob - Plant - 9Wallaceville Laboratory Block: site drainageMan driving a tractor in fieldBiochemical Processing Centre - 14Laboratory - 1Callus - 1Unidentified plants - 2Hauptner Syringe - WallacevilleSpaced plants - C1668 and C1153Farmlet species trial - 2 of 11Engineering workshop - 32Cast evacuationBallantrae cows - 3DSIR - Grasslands News - April 1991 - Issue No. 8Male in field holding two giant swedesBallantrae - B37Wine fermentation tanks, Te KauwhataInvermay laparoscopy of sheep - 2 of 4DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 15 - December 1987Arapuni - 4 of 8Earth moving project at siteIrradiated N. langsdorffii polenArtificial lakeSheep at leisureBiochemical Processing Centre - 12Petri dish - 6Plots: Reveille, Taptoe and G. RuanuiClover root weevils eating white cloverMowingDSIR - Gore Research StationDSIR - Grasslands News - September 1991 - Issue No. 11Invermay Wool Lab - 2 of 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