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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.

 

 
Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31
 
Southern AlpsArapuni - 7 of 8Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.17Gleditsia - Te Puke - 4Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 10 of 13Gully control by bulldozing. 11. Site of No. 1 DamDerek Woodfield and Colin BrownEngineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/1Engineering Workshop - image No. 80/351/3DSIR Newsletter - Number 29 - Date: 15 September 1980Engineering Workshop - image No. 84/42/5Packard 7201 Radio Chromatogram ScannerTaita Experimental Station. 3.Landscapes - 1MafTech fruit - 6 of 10Camping beside riverSmall-scale construction work at Number 2 Dairy, RuakuraBd paddockField day carrots - 4 of 7Sheep rotational grazing - 2 of 3Bayer Classic 1987 - 1 of 6Ballantrae - B71Silage harvesterGoat shearingRumen - 3Sheep standing up against a farm gateLely rotary harrow. 3. Rear viewRuakura LaneMilk recording apparatus, Number 4 Dairy, RuakuraEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/108/1SwardMr. JahusonSheep weighing. 1. Staff assisting sheep to the weighing machineClover against a white background - 6Putaruru horses and field workersHobsonville, Papakura - 1DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 6 - 4 April 1989Land Clearing - 2Animal chute head-gateBallantrae - B26Ruakura Farm of Instruction: Fields and paddocks. 1. North of railway lineAorangi Lowland Research StationMafTech goats - 4 of 7Slash - Turitea stream - 3Leaf squash - 4 of 4Arapuni - 3 of 8Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 8 of 14Kaikohe Farm 1962 - 1 of 4Arthur DuncanPlant Research Bureau and Plant Chemistry Laboratory
 
 
 
 
 
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