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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
 
Soil Chemistry Laboratory - 4 of 6Walkers on bush trackWallaceville - Stereoscopic microscope made by W. Watson & SonsEngineering workshop - 44MAFTech News - Date: November 1991Leaf litter - 1Building frameAlan Tutton Johns (1917-1997)Biochemical Processing Centre - 13Operating table - sheep - 11MafTech - 17 of 18Testing seed germinationDr. Shearer's visit - 3Farmer and son standing in a field - 2 of 2Peter VliegEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/108/1DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News - 22 March 1990Sorting seeds in the laboratoryDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 18 - 9 November 1989Flock House Farm forest blocks and speciesGlasshouse construction - 1Researchers at Brownrigg AgricultureJohn James driving the Stanhay precision seeder at Aorangi - B&W versionDairy Farm at Levin - 3 of 3Bees and pollination - 2 of 2Land Development - 4Petrie - 1Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.11David Ritchie and David BrownriggHay silosTaita Experimental Station. 7.Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 8 of 13Effect of the season on cottingLamb tailing at Tara Hills. 1. Tailing a lambBallantrae - B4Howard Eagles measuring growing maizeCattle being driven up Bothwell's HillAorangi Harvesting. 4. Hay balerAlex Knob - Plant - 2Taita Experimental Station. 10.MafTech - 5 of 18Jim Inglis and wife, Malcolm Guy and Maurice YorkStudent appraising seedlingsPetri dish - 4Ensilage and a covered hay stackThreshing a Nucleus broad red clover stackFarmlet species trial - 4 of 11Robertson Air ServicesBallantrae - B55Miss D.E. Walker
 
 
 
 
 
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