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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
 
Nursery - Gleditsia treesMasterton show - 1988 - 10 of 10Sheep's teeth. 4. FilingEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/42/4Drainage frame on a drained plot: close up: reverse of cardMerino ram sale - 1988 - 2 of 7Sheep grazing on prairie grass on Rawhiti StationDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 5 - 12 April 1990Spaced plants - G4709DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 29 - December 1989Ryegrass - 7Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 3 of 14Sheep in the turnip field - 2 of 6Aorangi Harvesting. 3. Close up of harvesting attachmentMike Christensen - 1988 - 1 of 2Grasslands, the first 50 years, 1936-1986Red SeedoMatic, Massey Ferguson 590 series, row-crop tractorWhanga streamIntensive mating blocks at Tara Hills - 2 of 2Dunedin Parade with 'Invermoose'. 2. Signage for 'Invermoose' Animal of the FutureTuritea stream - new cut - 4 of 4Non-irradiated N. alata pollenMafTech animals - 3 of 7Lab technicianHeadquarters - 1Display plants - 4Engineering workshop - 74Collecting seedGlasshouse construction - 9Two stoppered bottles holding an unknown substanceMcCormick Farmall TractorMasterton show - 1988 - 4 of 10DSIR - Information on Electron MicroscopyGleditsia tree - femaleJohn LancashireWheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.1Through the portalsWallaceville equipment - 2Clover root weevil: smallAlex Knob - Plant - 8Test tubes holding plants - 7Alan Tutton Johns (1917-1997)Cattle being driven up Bothwell's HillEarly types of teat cup linersChine removal machine: saw arm: general assemblyClover root weevils: on a stemClover - 2Turf seedlings - 1 of 4Sheep wearing a coveringMr Anderson - 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