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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 yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, Ruakura
 
Engineering Workshop - image No. 81/705/2Animal Nutrition Unit - 3 of 10George DavisSpray dipping. 2. Sheep in holding area outside spray penDairy Science Building, Ruakura, under construction. 2. View from the eastO.K. Champion potato planterDSIR Newsletter - Number 21 - Date: 19 May 1980Gum tree, RuakuraEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/60/3Flashburn - River ValleyBiochemical Processing Centre - 17Display boards - Grasses - 2 of 3Joanne and Jim InglisTractor in the fieldRotational grazing in the Waikato regionHillside sheep - 4 of 7Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/156/5Hills, trees and paddocks - 2Leaf squash - 2 of 4Vintage cars - fernsEngineering Workshop - image No. 85/431/1Invermay campus - 1 of 3R.G. (Graham) Bell (1943-2023) in a studio portrait, 1998A fertiliser broadcaster for small plots: side viewSheep grazing paddocks - 2 of 12Engineering Workshop - 16Bulldozed tracksTall fescues - 1 of 2Ballantrae - sunny faceYoung Farmers Club - TrophyTemperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 5. Farm 1, hard to clean machineJohn Lancashire and Ray BroughamMerino ram sale - 1987 - 1 of 5Kaikohe Farm 1962 - 4 of 4DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 17 - 19 October 1989West Coast roadFarm output types by percentageMeasuring bagged grass clippingsMAFTech News - Date: May 1989Sheep in wooden twin-pole head vice: front and side viewClover leaves, red fleckDSIR Newsletter - Number 26 - Date: 30 July 1980Scaffolding on a Grasslands building - 2Test tubes holding plants - 2Cows on a Waikato farmDSIR Newsletter - Number 7 - Date: 24 September 1979Operation table - Sheep - 4Turitea stream - 2Wiring diagram of a dielectric heaterEngineering workshop - 38
 
 
 
 
 
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 Ruakura Ryegrass Scientists Seeds Sheep Silage Social life Soil Staff Statistics Surgery Tables Technology Testing Tractors Trees Trials Turf Vegetables Vehicles Visitors Wallaceville Waterways Weeds Wheat