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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.

 

 
Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31
 
Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: Cover pageE. McKenzie - 3G. Latch - 1Relationship between Bradford Count and cottingPrairie grass - single plants - AorangiSuperintendent's residence, RuakuraWheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.9Trailer tank - 1Wallaceville Antique BellowsLevin Horticultural Research Centre. 1. From the main entranceClover - roots - 6Young pollen grainsHand held soil moisture probeEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/108/2Ballantrae - B67Enoch (Bruce) Levy (1892-1985) in 1947Pamela Fletcher operating a grinderField day carrots - 5 of 7Akaroa Leicester ewe hogsMAFTech News - Date: June 1990DSIR - Grasslands News - January 1991 - Issue No. 5Bayer Classic 1989 - 3 of 4Turitea stream in flood. 5. Grasslands paddocksQueen Elizabeth II visits GrasslandsOpening of the Plant Chemistry Laboratory, Grasslands, 1946. 2. Taking refreshmentsRows of grassesRay Bailey - 1 of 2Engineering Workshop - image No. 84/395/2D. Edmond - 2Petri dish - 7Cows - grazing - 1Blood samples from deer at Invermay - 1 of 3Derek Woodfield and Colin BrownGrowth of Ryegrass TillersWilting experiment - 2 of 4Fumaria capreolataEngineering Workshop - image No. 81/705/2Temperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 1. Percent of bacteria types in milkLevin Horticultural Research Centre. 4. As seen from aboveMAF - Levin Plant Protection CentreCow - rear endBallantrae dam - 8Kaikohe Farm 1962 - 4 of 4DSIR Newsletter - Number 25 - Date: 14 July 1980Sheep grazing paddocks - 6 of 12Venison Tasting Panel. 1. Venison Tasting Panel at InvermayGrasslands Library extension being manoeuvred past Building 13Plots: Reveille, Taptoe and G. RuanuiDr Jackman - 3
 
 
 
 
 
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