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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
 
Starlings. 2. Clutch of starling eggsMen and dogs - 3 of 3Winton Farm - 1930DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 19 - 7 December 1989Lotus screening at Flock HouseEngineering Workshop - 12Grasslands construction - 3Demolishing foundations of old buildingBiochemical Processing Centre - 31Pig husbandry. 4. Selection of breeding stockRear of building, Massey Agricultural CollegeMicroscopic plant cell - 2Levin Horticultural Field Day - 1 of 11Sheep grazing in paddockGorse - 1O. sativus x O. compressus - 8Percentage infection in plantsPugging damageDr Phil Roloston and the Honourable Bob TizardSeed headsSlash - Turitea stream - 3White Fringed Weevil eggsScientific equipment - unidentifiedCam and Kathleen Reid with Pat MangamWhanga - landscapeSeed cleaning mill with staffMafTech goats - 4 of 7Multiple lamb birthsHamua - Pawera comparisonFarm participantsFlame weeder. 5. Hand held demonstrationTom Fraser and Gavin SheathRemoving anthersCarcass dressing - removing boneDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 11 - 14 June 1989Glasshouse construction - 5Left hand - 1Earthworms. 3. Flat wormPhosphate - 1Ballantrae - B52Engineering workshop - 67Chine removal machine: saw arm and mount: general assemblyEngineering workshop - 42Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/156/4Dr Barclay - 3Grasses - 2A.O. Taylor - 3Dr Daniel Cohen with propagating traysEngineering Workshop - image No. 81/705/1Hillside sheep - 3 of 7
 
 
 
 
 
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