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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
 
Judy Fisher working in the laboratoryPetri dish - 6Two men in a fieldThe resulting haystack after a clean up before top dressingMilk recording apparatus, Number 4 Dairy, RuakuraTara Hills lamb tailing - 7 of 9Farmall model tractor making silageNew Zealand DSIR Newsletter - July 1963FarmersAlex Knob - Plant - 5B. Forde - 1Bone scrappers, RuakuraDr Mitchell - 3Ploughing scrub - 2 of 3Building - on the move - 2DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 14 - September 1987Field day pumpkins - 1 of 3Clover leavesEngineering Workshop - image No. 76/111/2Spray dipping. 3. Sheep in spray penWool Metrology - 2 of 7Tick nymphs amongst deer hairAnimal Health Division Display Caravan - 4 of 14Field workerShelter treesFarmlet species trial - 11 of 11Ants Roberts and Stewart LedgardSheep in the turnip field - 6 of 6Hand pollinatingConstruction at Grasslands - 3Biochemical Processing Centre - 40Laboratory - 2Cars outside buildings at GrasslandsR.P. Pottinger on the cover of a spoof 'Time' magazineMr. Thurston - 1Margot Forde - seeds - 2O. sativus x O. compressus - 8Four o'clock - going to the shedErosion - 2Taita Experimental Station. 3.Beef plan display - 1 of 2Gully control by bulldozing. 1. Bulldozing the headPrunella vulgarisAnimal Health Division Display Caravan - 9 of 14Dairy Farm at Levin - 1 of 3Oliver tractor - 4Display plants - 4Stoat in trapAnimal Production - 1991 - 4 of 6Anderson Valley
 
 
 
 
 
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