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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
 
Alex Knob - Plant - 4Mowing turf trials - 3 of 4Levin Horticultural Field Day - 5 of 11West Coast roadPlant Breeding Section - 1975Margot Forde - seeds - 1MIRINZ Christmas dinner, 1962: menu bookletShearing - SheepClover leavesPasture species and cultivarsSoil Chemistry Laboratory - JarClover leaf, V brokenBiochemical Processing Centre - 48Mowing plotsLaboratory equipment - 1Ballantrae dam - 8John Hay and Gavin SheathKowhai regenerationMafTech - 7 of 18Engineering Workshop - image No. 82/367/2D. Grant - 2DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 11 - September 1986Spaced plants at Grasslands - 4 of 7Levy - 5Théodore Mine - Potash buildings in the background - FranceClover - roots - 8Tom Fraser and Gavin SheathDairy Science Building, Ruakura, under construction. 1. View from the northSpaced plants at Grasslands - 7 of 7Chine removal machine: saw arm and mount: general assemblyHeat extractionAnimal Nutrition Unit - 5 of 10Clover root weevils on the edge of a white clover leaf Soil sampling 4: how not to mix samplesTuritea stream - 1966 - 1Sheath & mesophyll chlaoplastsMafTech - 8 of 18Central Control Board for environment controlBuilding construction - 1955 - 2The Store, Grasslands. 8. Glassware and miscellaneous materialMature prairie grass on Rawhiti Station Gore - clover - 2Levy - 3Ryegrass - 7Alex Knob - view - 9John Lancashire (1935-2015)DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 2 - 14 February 1989Weighing clippingsMAF - Project managerFlame weeder. 1. Propane tanks
 
 
 
 
 
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