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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
 
Ryegrass - 1Aerial farmingBiochemical Processing Centre - 42Whatawhata landscape. View 3Three men in a field examining the swardChine removal machine: saw arm: leftDSIR - Grasslands News - September 1991 - Issue No. 11Engineering workshop - 55Sheep in wooden twin-pole head vice: side viewDrainage frame on a drained plot: close up: reverse of cardDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 9 - 5 July 1990Guthrie-Smith's house - 1 of 2DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 18 - 1988Sheep in the turnip field - 4 of 6Herbage workers at desksDSIR - Games eveningEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/395/2Maurice Gray and Dick LucasBeef farmlets rotation chart. 2. Percentage of cropsOpen Day gathering at InvermayMowing preparationBuilding construction - 1955 - 2Cows with tagged earsMAF - Organics - A natural alternative for the futureMAF - Post-Harvest Technology BrochureAlex Knob - Plant - 7Grasses - 3Drainage frame on an un-drained plot: close-up: framed with index card Ballantrae dam - 6Hand held soil moisture probeMargot Forde - seeds - 3Engineering Workshop - image No. 80/351/1Tractor trailerEngineering workshop - 59Scientific measurementFarmer and son standing in a field - 2 of 2Clover - flower - 2Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 11 of 13Ballantrae - B37J.D. Cowie - 1Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.10John LancashireClover root weevil: smallTony Field measuring nitrogen in a paddockBiochemical Processing Centre - 14Prime Minister Lange opens Invermay Main BuildingBallantrae cows - 5Staff of the Ruakura Farm of InstructionSuperintendent's residence, RuakuraWheat trial reports: Reporoa, F. Ross
 
 
 
 
 
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