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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
 
DSIR - Forage and fodder crop productionMafTech fruit - 9 of 10Turitea stream in flood. 3. Flooded paddocks and fencingLely rotary harrow. 1. In actionCar on bush trackChoice chambersDSIR Council group portraitLeaf squash - 3 of 4Paddocks of the Gore Research StationAnimal Production - 1991 - 3 of 6Sheep tethering using a single paunch strapBloat Research Christmas CardWatering seedlingsDSIR - Geology & Geophysics Scotch thistle Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 2 of 14Car park and Administration Building, GrasslandsIntensive mating blocks at Tara Hills - 2 of 2Keith Joblin looking in a microscopeWhatawhata landscape. View 2Mountains - snowCocksfoot - spaced plantsTe Awa sheepFarmlet species trial - 8 of 11Display boards - Grasses - 2 of 3Man in fieldThe Store, Grasslands. 3. Gordon StaytClover leaves, ragged edgesMerino ram sale - 1987 - 1 of 5Beef rotational grazing at Ballantrae - 2 of 3Masterton show - 1988 - 3 of 10Motorbikes on Old West RoadField day carrots - 7 of 7Man viewing an area of fernsGrasslands windows added to wingPeter Vlieg & Alan Johns with cowsTaita Experimental Station. 7.Animal Nutrition Unit - 2 of 10Organic potting mix displayProbeCow - udderAorangi Lowland Research StationClover root weevil: smallHay stackParty-time in the mid 1950'sCentral Control Board for environment controlCertified seed - 1 of 11Tara Hills lamb tailing - 5 of 9Masterton show - 1988 - 6 of 10Large fleece from a shorn sheep
 
 
 
 
 
Buildings Campuses Cattle Clover Construction Cows Crops Data Diagrams Directors Diseases Ephemera Equipment Erosion Farm staff Farmers Farms Feeding Fertiliser Fields Glasshouses Graphs Grasses Grasslands Grazing Harvesting Horses Humour Insects Invermay Laboratories Lambs Landscapes Leaves MIRINZ Machinery MafTech Measuring Meetings Milking Observation Open Days Paddocks Plants Plots Publications Rams Ruakura Scientists Seeds Sheep Silage Social life Soil Statistics Surgery Tables Technology Testing Tractors Trees Trials Turf Vegetables Vehicles Visitors Wallaceville Waterways Wheat Worms