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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.

 

 
Howard Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950's
 
Hauptner Syringe - WallacevilleBallantrae - B39Bee pollinating - 3 of 4Scientists at Grasslands - 2 of 2Poultry Drive, RuakuraBiochemical Processing Centre - 23Farmland - 4Arapuni - 4 of 8Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 10 of 13Engineering workshop - 28Jim Bolger - 2Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 2 of 14Taita Experimental Station. 4.Fodder crop in fieldReg Keogh - 3Man driving harvesterSoil profiles - 3 of 3Engineering workshop - 72Tractor trailerD. Edmond - 6Ballantrae - B24Southern AlpsTara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 5 of 8Waimangu geyserPaddocks of Number 2 Dairy, RuakuraMAFTech News - Date: May 1989Flowering fieldMafTech display - 4 of 4Erosion - 6Burning of turf - 1 of 2Flock House Farm forest blocks and speciesMafTech fruit - 5 of 10B. Forde - 1Stacking cropNo. 1 type willow mattress. 1. During constructionWallaceville - Entrance HallwayTaita Experimental Station. 5.Ballantrae dam - 15Field day 1989 - 1 of 3Hand pollinating - 1 of 2Engineering workshop - 69Farmer standing proudly on his landPasture treading effects - 8 of 9Ballantrae hill work - 2Prairie grass on Rawhiti Station: close upPrunella vulgarisMeasuring seedsMafTech - 18 of 18Te Awa aerial landscape viewGully control by bulldozing. 6. Runneling
 
 
 
 
 
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 Ruakura Ryegrass Scientists Seeds Sheep Silage Social life Soil Staff Statistics Surgery Tables Technology Testing Tractors Trees Trials Turf Vegetables Vehicles Visitors Wallaceville Waterways Weeds Wheat