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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.

 

 
Cow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silage
 
Kitty PeckBallantrae - B40DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 17 - August 1988Sheep tethering using full body straps: front and side viewHawkes Bay Show - 1990 - 3 of 4MafTech animals - 2 of 7 LakeTest tubes holding plants - 5Grasslands plots - 1 of 7Gully control by bulldozing. 3. Head controlKereru - Department of Conservation tagAnimal Nutrition Unit - 7 of 10Mr. Thurston - 1Valley - 1947Levy - 7Fertilizer depotBayer Classic 1987 - 3 of 6Ruakura LaneJim Whyte and John HayRomney Marsh - SheepGrasslands staffJohn Lancashire (1935-2015)New Zealand DSIR Newsletter - August 1963Stabilised sandhill countryM. Beardsall - 3Dr Daniel Cohen with propagating traysMan in bush areaSpaced plants at Grasslands - 2 of 7Prairie grass on Rawhiti Station: close upKaikohe Farm 1959 - 7 of 13Dairy Science Building, Ruakura, under construction. 1. View from the northTillers beginning to dieTemperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 9. Plan of Dargaville research areaWallaceville roll of honourGrasslands Ruanui perennial ryegrass (Lofium perenne L.) - S. 23 UK- comparisonGlasshouse construction - 7W. HarrisThresher 1952Derek Woodfield and Colin BrownGroup portrait - 2Mean monthly earth temperature at Te AwaLab equipmentGrasslands Nui - perennial ryegrassBallantrae dam - 9Derelict sheep dipsWool Metrology - 4 of 7Molecular GeneticsModels - What are they?Masterton show - 1988 - 2 of 10DSIR Newsletter - Number 13 - Date: 17 December 1979
 
 
 
 
 
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