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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
 
Engineering workshop - 52Dr. K. J. Mitchell - The Climate IndustryBiochemical Processing Centre - 59Engineering workshop - 75Biochemical Processing Centre - 33Jim Bolger - 1Tongue, larynx and upper trachea of a sheep with sporesBallantrae - B79% respiration graph - 2Groynes. 10. Gully with planted baysSubsidence showing a large crack in the groundDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News - December 1988Whanga - RimuPoplarsInvermay Wool Lab - 1 of 2Farmlet species trial - 10 of 11Animal Nutrition Unit - 6 of 10Farmlet species trial - 4 of 11Engineering Workshop - image No. 80/5Field day carrots - 1 of 7Animal Nutrition Unit - 1 of 10Alan Stewart, Peter Kemp, Garry Waghorn and Alison PopayBallantrae - B69Taita Experimental Station. 6.Sheep grazing paddocks - 1 of 12Pasture species and cultivarsAerial application of Lindane by helicopterHaymaking - 1Biochemical Processing Centre - 11Ballantrae cows - 8Taita Experimental Station. 9.Man viewing Wairua FallsErosion - 11MafTech - 1 of 18Ec 25 - Ecotype collectionGreg Lambert (1948-2022) with black locust shrubStarlings. 2. Clutch of starling eggsSheep dustingPlotsEngineering workshop - 72Margot Forde (1935-1992)Erosion - 10Ballantrae - B64Arapuni - 6 of 8Artificial lakeCocksfoot - spaced plantsRay Brougham - 1Digger preparing site - 4Industrial plant - 1Pipe installation - 2
 
 
 
 
 
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