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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.

 

 
Farmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisure
 
B.E. Talboys opening the Tower Block, RuakuraSam GreenAnnual ryegrassMafTech fruit - 6 of 10Bayer Classic 1987 - 4 of 6Levin Horticultural Field Day - 3 of 11Cows in paddocksLarge group portraitJ.D. Cowie - 1Carbon bandingSouthern AlpsWhatawhata: aerial view of buildings and landscapeMolecular BiologyRay Brougham - 3Cotula turf and the bowling green - 8 of 8Hand pushed tillerBallantrae - B56Spaced plants - C1668 and C11531940's Fire - 2 of 8Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 7 of 13Ryegrass - 2Gleditsia - Te Puke - 1Social cricket game - 2 of 4Sheep weighing. 2. Reading sheep weight as it steps on the scalesBruce Levy - 4Vegetable display - 1 of 2B&W clover flowerCertified seed - 5 of 11O. col & O. lacunsa (closeup foliage) + snowgrassAnimal Physiology BuildingBallantrae - B24Taita Experimental Station. 7.Engineering Workshop - wood storageDunedin Parade with 'Invermoose'. 2. Signage for 'Invermoose' Animal of the FutureSyd Duncan and a Bomb CalorimeterDSIR - Grasslands News - July 1991 - Issue No. 10Turitea stream - new cut - 2 of 4Aorangi Farm Open Day. 1. Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/169/1Engineering workshop - 48Stachys arvensisRoot measurements: 2. Displayed differencesWallaceville - Cobalt GunMultiple pregnancy testing in sheep. 3.Laboratory equipment - 1DSIR - Grasslands News - November 1990 - Issue No. 31940's Fire - 1 of 8Landscapes - 3Certified seed - 7 of 11Dr. Latch and John Lancashire
 
 
 
 
 
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