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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
 
PlotsEstablishment trial at BallantraeClover against a white background - 4Taita Experimental Station. 3.Clover leavesBurning of turf - 2 of 2Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 4 of 14Pasture treading effects - 6 of 9Grasses in rowsMasterton show - 1988 - 7 of 10E. WilliamsBiochemical Processing Centre - 50Car at pumping stationBallantrae - B9Research orchard - Havelock NorthInvermay laparoscopy of sheep - 3 of 4Red clover strainsStaff and students of the Ruakura Farm of InstructionEngineering workshop - 75Plants in plastic propagation pots - 3 of 4Seed bagMAFTech News - Date: November 1989B&W clover flowerKereru - Side viewEddie Suckling and Harvey Drake with ducks shotElectron microscope - 2 of 3Queen Elizabeth II visits GrasslandsMafTech fruit - 3 of 10Mystery Creek - 3 of 4Effect of mature rape plants on first row of turnipsBallantrae - B27Alan Stewart - Alistair MoorehouseLevin Horticultural Field Day - 2 of 11Gully control by bulldozing. 10. Secondary head erosionAorangi Harvesting. 3. Close up of harvesting attachmentBallantrae landscape - 2Men at work around the ensilage and haystacksEarly Grasslands site - 9Mike Christensen - 1988 - 1 of 2Riwaka Research Station patakaSoil moisture sensor. 2. Working in the fieldCows - grazing - 2Engineering workshop - 48Wanaka Station - 1929Xanthium - 1Joanne and Jim InglisEight potsRay Brougham - 5Production rate of crops and water useHonorary members of the NZ Grassland Association
 
 
 
 
 
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