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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.

 

 
Farmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisure
 
Erosion - 9DSIR Newsletter - Number 14 - Date: 28 January 1980Red cloverFarmer and son standing in a field - 2 of 2Mr. Thurston - 3Mature prairie grass on Rawhiti Station Grasslands plots - 1 of 7DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 28 - October 1989Irradiated N. langsdorffii polenPropagation tray - 2 of 2Levy - 5George DavisBallantrae - B4M. Beardsall - 3A fertiliser broadcaster for small plotsEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/575/1Grasslands Division - 1961Clover leaf, V brokenEngineering workshop - 32Ballantrae - B17E. WilliamsBd paddockLetter of thanks following Queen Elizabeth's visit to InvermayHand pollinating - 2 of 2Mr. Thurston - 4Engineering Workshop - image No. 83/344Sheep yards and pens, Ruakura: with other buildingsRenee CarsonFour o'clock - going to the shedGrasslands Division aerial photograph, 1949Stream Bank Erosion at Palmerston NorthMafTech - 16 of 18Haymaking - 2Erosion - 8Ballantrae - B42Margot Forde - seeds - 3Biochemical Processing Centre - 13Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/409/5Certified seed - 9 of 11Hobsonville, Papakura - 1C.P. McMeekan (1908-1972) smoking a cigaretteGorse - 3O.K. Champion potato planterBee pollinating - 2 of 4Arapuni - 7 of 8Ballantrae - B51Bloat Research TeamBovine trichomoniasis: breeding history, 1946-1948Levin Horticultural Field Day - 7 of 11Field day 1989 - 2 of 3
 
 
 
 
 
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