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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.

 

 
Approach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front view
 
O. sativus x O. compressus - 9P. Evans - 2Bees and pollination - 1 of 2MafTech animals - 6 of 7DSIR Palmerston North - telephone numbers 1960Otaki ForksEngineering Workshop - 13Ballantrae - B71Te Awa sheepReg Keogh - 2Glasshouse construction - 9Pipe installation - 5Biogas flasksMafTech display - 1 of 4Dairy Farm at Levin - 3 of 3Control system - diagramSpray dipping. 3. Sheep in spray penSorting - 1Ballantrae cows - 1Burning of turf - 2 of 2Cam S.W. Reid with glassEwe carcasses showing variation from ryegrass diets Multiple pregnancy testing in sheep. 2.L. Harris - 1 Ruakura: The story of New Zealand's Agricultural Research HeadquartersThe Store, Grasslands. 5. Store itemsPackard 7201 Radio Chromatogram ScannerBallantrae - B50Dr. Shearer's visit - 4Alex Knob - Plant - 1Staff at work - 2Puriri pastureConsultancy Conference - 1 of 5Mesophyll plastid meso cytoplasmBallantrae - B2Ballantrae - B21Baling hay in CanterburyRyegrass - 2Fodder crop in fieldRyegrass - 8David BuxtonLotus plant rootsBallantrae - B63Sunlight at a switchR. Ball - 2Male in field holding two giant swedesRestraint of farm animalsWallaceville roll of honourNational ParkWaimangu geyser
 
 
 
 
 
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