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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
 
Scientific equipment - 2Ballantrae - sunny faceNursery - Gleditsia treesGleditsia tree - maleGavin Milne, Grant Douglas and Garry WaghornO. sativus x O. compressus - 3A fertiliser broadcaster for small plots: rear detailNgarahoe from the eastLely rotary harrow. 1. In actionVegetable display - 2 of 2Grasslands construction - 2Site preparationEngineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/6Loafing barnTemperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 9. Plan of Dargaville research areaDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 6 - 3 May 1990Soil sampling 4: how not to mix samplesSheep yards and pens, Ruakura: with other buildingsClover - 1958 - 2Beef rotational grazing at Ballantrae - 2 of 3Engineering workshop - 74Shooting partySowing gully floor. 1. Seed sowingFarmland - 3Invermay campus - 3 of 3Te Awamutu silage - 2 of 2Cow - dung - 3Groynes. 3. Breakthrough of waterGrasslands ScientistsClover inoculantsScientists at Grasslands - 1 of 2Turitea stream - 1966 - 2Cows on a Waikato farmDSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 17 - August 1988Clover - roots - 7Construction at Grasslands - 2A. HarrisDanuser tractor - 1Bruce Levy - 6Clover against a white background - 2Grazing Impact on Hill CountryC.P. McMeekan (1908-1972) in a studio portrait, smokingPropagation traysBee pollinating - 3 of 4Turitea stream in flood. 1. General viewBiochemical Processing Centre - 35Relationship between lambing percent and cottingTaita Experimental Station. 10.O. sativus x O. compressus - 4Drainage frame on an un-drained plot: close-up: image and reverse of card
 
 
 
 
 
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