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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
 
Riwaka Research Station patakaCows in paddock on Field DayGleditsia - Te Puke - 3Alan Stewart - Alistair MoorehouseWheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.3Engineering Workshop - image No. 80/351/3Animal Production - 1991 - 3 of 6Engineering workshop - 65Alex Knob - view - 3Horopito - bushStationary seed dresserEarthworm root experiment. 2. View of the fieldSheep grazing paddocks - 4 of 12Sheep grazing paddocks - 2 of 12Farmlet species trial - 7 of 11Sheep stocking rate + cattleTuritea stream in flood. 8. Flooding amongst the treelineScientists - unidentified - 5Hillside sheep - 5 of 7Car in fieldInvermay Farmers Conference 1970 - 1 of 9D. Grant - 4Sheep grazing paddocks - 6 of 12Masterton show - 1988 - 7 of 10DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 15 - 31 August 1989Kereru - Hemiphaga novaesslandiaeOtaki ForksMafTech fruit - 8 of 10Clover root weevils on the edge of a white clover leaf Growth chamber - 2 of 2Taita Experimental Station. 1.Leaf squash - 2 of 4Seed cleaning mill with staffCasual portraitSeed scarifierTara Hills lamb tailing - 1 of 9Epiphyte establishmentLeft hand - 2Clover plants in a glasshouseRay Bailey - 1 of 2Engineering Workshop - image No. 84/42/1LucernePig husbandry. 1. Breeds of pigsTe Awamutu silage - 1 of 2Type e callus - 1MafTech - 13 of 18Cannulated cowSoil fertility displayMain drive - Massey Agricultural CollegeEwes stocking the sunny and shady faces of paddocks - 3 of 4
 
 
 
 
 
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