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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.

 

 
Scientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, Ruakura
 
Putaruru hayRams at the fencelineGrazing sheep Ballantrae - B46Gleditsia - Te Puke - 5Engineering workshop - 61Wheat trial reports: Reporoa, M.A. SickfoldResearch orchard - Havelock NorthElectron microscope - 1 of 3Sclerotinia minor_2 of 3MafTech - 16 of 18Seed scarifierMeasuring bagged grass clippingsDSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 27 - July 1989Taita Experimental Station. 7.DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 15 - December 1987Engineering Workshop - image No. 80/351/4Gore - clover - 1Grasslands name as a logoBrownrigg Agriculture Field StopTest tubes holding plants - 6Biochemical Processing Centre - 57Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 9 of 13Turitea stream - 1966 - 2Wallaceville equipment - 1King Country - SheepLarge covered ensilage stackDr SlackInvermay Soil Laboratory. 1. Scientist working on the Technicon AutoAnalyserBallantrae - B62In-field seed experimentFarmlet species trial - 2 of 11Consultancy Conference - 2 of 5Scientists at CarisbrookWinchmore Farm buildings: aerial viewPrimary forest before fellingErosion - 1Table Top MountatinBanks PeninsulaYoung Farmers Club - CowsEc 24 - Ecotype collectionCertified seed - 1 of 11Cattle feeding on silage - 2 of 6Early teat cup typesMargot Forde - seeds - 1Reg Keogh - 3Plant Chemistry Laboratory - exterior - circa 1950Perennial ryegrass: close-upCows with tagged earsLester Fletcher examining ryegrass
 
 
 
 
 
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