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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 yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, Ruakura
 
Biochemical Processing Centre - 54Field day carrots - 3 of 7Clover - roots - 3Certified seed - 11 of 11Levin Horticultural Field Day - 1 of 11L. Corkill - 6Jim Inglis and wife, Malcolm Guy and Maurice YorkDSIR - Grasslands News - September 1990 - Issue No. 12Thresher 1952SheepXerophyteAllison Mackay at workUnidentified plants - 2Pamela Fletcher operating a grinderLarge fleece from a shorn sheepEffect of cotting on greasy fleece weight: wet ewes onlyEngineering Workshop - 9Warren Williams - 2Ballantrae cows - 6Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.10Akaroa Arthur Duncan and Maurice McDonaldFarmland - 4Walkers on bush trackAerial view east of Invermay CampusReg Keogh - 2Phosphate - 2DSIR Council group portraitEngineering Workshop - 10Biochemical Processing Centre - 44Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 1 of 14Clover root weevils: adultsGrass bladesDigger preparing site - 4Chine removal machine: saw motor mountSheep tethering using a single paunch strap: rear viewMicroscopic plant cell - 3B&W clover plant with tagPlant innoculation with virusBone scrappers, RuakuraField days computer - 3 of 3Clover leaves, red fleckAorangi Farm Open Day. 8. Sheep yards and pens, Ruakura: with other buildingsMafTech - 15 of 18Tara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 4 of 8DSIR - Grasslands News - February 1992 - Issue No. 13Sheep grazing paddocks - 1 of 12Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 1 of 13Dr Jackman
 
 
 
 
 
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