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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
 
Masterton show - 1988 - 2 of 10Sheep dustingMeasuring total dung output of a free grazing cowLevin Horticultural Field Day - 4 of 11Edmon Wong and Cecil B. JohnsonFarmer and son standing in a field - 2 of 2The Store, Grasslands. 4. Office areaDSIR - Field Services Building at Palmerston North - under constructionBanks PeninsularArthur Duncan and Maurice McDonaldSheeps teeth - stocking ratePasture treading effects - 5 of 9Perennial ryegrass: close-upSheep tethering using paunch strapsAlex Knob - view - 5% Respiration graph - 1Farmland - 3Grasses in rowsSorting grassParty-time in the mid 1950'sNikau palmPipe installation - 4Relationship between Bradford Count and cottingTe Awamutu silage - 2 of 2Junction plots - 1 of 2Opening of the Plant Chemistry Laboratory, Grasslands, 1946. 1. Inside the LaboratoryGateway to Number 2 Dairy, RuakuraClover plants - 1Fodder cropDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 7 - 18 April 1989BrackenRyegrass - 4Surgery - SheepEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/108/1Tara Hills lamb tailing - 7 of 9Earthworms. 2. Blackhead wormDSIR - Guide to MAFTech News - Date: May 1989Bumble bees and cross pollination - 2 of 2Alan Stewart - Alistair MoorehouseEngineering Workshop - 11Slip sowing - 2 of 5Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 2 of 13Engineering Workshop - image No. 81/705/1Staff at work - 3Ray Bailey - 1 of 2Duke of Edinburgh observing border dyke irrigation at WinchmoreFuchsia excorticata - scaling barkSmall Animal House: front view: close-up, 2MafTech - 6 of 18
 
 
 
 
 
Ballantrae 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 Worms