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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
 
Otaki ForksSuperphosphate useCotula turf and the bowling green - 7 of 8Pig husbandry. 2. Management from weaning to slaughterTaihape White PineBiochemical Processing Centre - 17Dr Mitchell - 2Farmlet species trial - 10 of 11Baling hay in CanterburyEroded cliff face - 2Scientist - unidentified - 1Seasonal production graphTiller formation from flower headEngineering workshop - 51Margot Forde - seeds - 1LucerneTataruimaka silage pit - 2 of 2Lotus - Maku - Marshfield comparisonSheep standing up against a farm gatePloughing scrub - 3 of 3Laboratory technologySlip sowing - 2 of 5Sheep on hill slopesDr Barclay - 4John Lancashire and Ray BroughamSilage silhouetteBallantrae - B57Ballantrae landscape - 3Small Animal House: front viewBallantrae - B30Hill slopeMafTech - 18 of 18Motorbikes on Old West RoadEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/108/3The Store, Grasslands. 2. RearFarmlet species trial - 5 of 11Edmon Wong and Cecil B. JohnsonCattle feeding on silage - 6 of 6Reg Keogh - 1Aorangi Lowland Research StationDanuser tractor - 2Plants in plastic propagation pots - 1 of 4Ballantrae - B8Clover - 3Grazing sheep DSIR - Grasslands News - September 1991 - Issue No. 11Groynes. 9. Triangular plantingBull testiclesC.P. McMeekan (1908-1972) smoking a cigaretteCertified seed - 6 of 11
 
 
 
 
 
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