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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
 
Soil Chemistry Laboratory - 6 of 6Kereru - Head close upTony Field measuring nitrogen in a paddockWallaceville Laboratory Block: site drainageGrasslands group photo  Engineering Workshop - 20Tordon spray trial - 1 of 5Land Development - 2Irradiated N. langsdorffii polenFlowering fieldCotula turf and the bowling green - 8 of 8Relationship between lambing percent and cottingSpaced plants - C1494 and C1468O.K. Champion potato planter: reverse of cardIn-field seed experimentHouse on hill slopePipe installation - 5Farmlet species trial - 2 of 11Farmer and horse in action whilst topdressingApproach to the HomesteadWairua FallsRecording weight Preparing turf plots of sowing - 2 of 2Construction underway at Grasslands in 1988Engineering Workshop - image No. 82/367/4Dairying at Levin - 4 of 4John Lancashire and visitors in new demonstration blockTuritea stream in flood. 6. General floodingPlant Physiology Division - Climate LaboratoryWilting experiment - 3 of 4Labelled bundles of rootsSheep in the turnip field - 3 of 6O.K. Champion potato planter: framed with index cardAnimal Production - 1991 - 6 of 6Beef rotational grazing at Ballantrae - 3 of 3Consultancy Conference - 4 of 5Merino ram sale - 1987 - 5 of 5Cattle placentasmowed paddockTemperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 6. Fluid flow relationshipsBlood samples from deer at Invermay - 3 of 3Ray Brougham (1926-1993)Scarring after a land slipField measurement. 4.Bovine trichomoniasis: breeding history, 1946-1948Animal Nutrition Unit - 10 of 10Oxidation PondsEngineering Workshop - image No. 78/359/1Engineering Workshop - 2Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 7 of 14