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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 at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maize
 
DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 19 - 7 December 1989J.D. Cowie - 1A fertiliser broadcaster for small plots: rear detailWallaceville PlaqueDanuser tractor - 1Group portrait - 1Timothy grass: close-upDSIR staff, 1955Seed bagDrainage frame on a drained plot: close-up Merino ram sale - 1988 - 3 of 7Levin Horticultural Field Day - 10 of 11Extent of digestibility in cowsInvermay laparoscopy of sheep - 3 of 4Clover leaves, red fleckAc clover - 2Oliver tractor - 6Pasture treading effects - 5 of 9Pasture treading effects - 9 of 9DSIR Council group portraitEngineering Workshop - image No. 77/146/3DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 15 - 31 August 1989Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.11Construction of the Grasslands wingField day 1989 - 1 of 3MafTech animals - 2 of 7 Levin Horticultural Field Day - 2 of 11Cattle placentasSlash - Turitea stream - 2MowingWarren Williams - 2Ranstead and others in the Ruakura LibraryBayer Classic 1989 - 3 of 4Clover - flower - 2Biochemical Processing Centre - 26Ballantrae - B29Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 3 of 13L. Corkill - 6Topdressing a paddockRyegrass in tube - 2Production rate of crops and water useStacking cropEngineering workshop - 32PaekakarikiMafTech - 13 of 18Scientist - unidentified - 6Gully control by bulldozing. 7. Scouring Ruakura: The story of New Zealand's Agricultural Research HeadquartersTuritea stream - 1966 - 6Farmer and horse in action whilst topdressing
 
 
 
 
 
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