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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.

 

 
Sheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maize
 
Peter Vlieg & Alan Johns with cowsChoice chambersEngineering Workshop - image No. 89/206/1Biochemical Processing Centre - 43Hilltop mean monthly earth temperatureCertified seed - 8 of 11Ray Brougham - 1E. WilliamsDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 15 - 31 August 1989Invermay LibraryDrainage frame on a drained plot: close up: framed with index cardDSIR - Field Services Building at Palmerston North - under constructionAnimal Health Division Display Caravan - 1 of 14Tataruimaka silage pit - 2 of 2Wallaceville Specimen BucketEngineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/4Car in fieldIntensive mating blocks at Tara Hills - 2 of 2Engineering Workshop - image No. 79/60/3Superphosphate useTaita Experimental Station. 2.Turitea stream - 1966 - 6Approach to the HomesteadOccupancy of DSIR Buildings in 1960Tico CohenConsultancy Conference - 3 of 5Australian Dairy Farmers - Hay stackClose up - plant - 4D. Edmond - 6O. sativus x O. compressus - 2Beef plan display - 1 of 2Hut - Alex Knob trackEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/42/1Groynes. 7. Iron spike and poleGleditsia - Te Puke - 9Palmerston North Show - 2 of 5Mechanical tree planting. 1. Tractor and mechanical augerDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 12 - 28 June 1989Leaf litter - 6Staff at work - 3Ballantrae - plotsDSIR - Grasslands News - May 1992 - Issue No. 14Temperature and growth relationships of bacteria in milk. 2. Effect of cooling temperature on growth rate of bacteriaDairy Science Building, Ruakura, under construction. 1. View from the northYoung pollen grainsWheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.13Trailer tank - 2Phosphate - 3Plants in plastic propagation pots - 3 of 4Seed heads
 
 
 
 
 
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