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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
 
Lionel Corkill's departure celebrationKeith Steele DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 17 - 19 October 1989Biochemical Processing Centre - 9DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 14 - September 1987Beef drenching at Aorangi - 2 of 2Land Development - 3Tara Hills lamb tailing - 5 of 9Biochemical Processing Centre - 43Beef Sale Week - 1 of 5Hut - Alex Knob trackWinton Farm - 1930Land Development - 6Bumble bees and cross pollination - 1 of 2A.O. Taylor - 2Ballantrae - B61Multiple pregnancy testing in sheep. 2.Unidentified plants - 1Test tubes holding plants - 2DSIR - Ground Levelling at Palmerston NorthBallantrae - B37Nikau palmGrass - Clover - 1Sheep - rape plant digest trial - 1 of 2Bee pollinating - 3 of 4Flame weeder. 1. Propane tanksClose up - plant - 4Garry Waghorn performing surgery on a sheepDerek Woodfield and Colin BrownMerino ram sale - 1987 - 4 of 5Turitea stream in flood. 6. General floodingClover - roots - 6Mowing turf trials - 4 of 4Cows - grazing - 1Wallaceville - PolarimeterSheep weighing. 2. Reading sheep weight as it steps on the scalesDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 6 - 4 April 1989Biochemical Processing Centre - 20Person viewing landscapeInvermay Wool Lab - 1 of 2Scientists at Grasslands - 2 of 2Early Grasslands site - 8Rumen - 3Ewes stocking the sunny and shady faces of paddocks along the Branch road - 2 of 4Petri dish - 2Gore - BrassicaMolecular BiologySilageStevenson screen. 1. Holding up the front panelCattle - holding paddock
 
 
 
 
 
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