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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.

 

 
Cow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silage
 
Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.12Digger preparing site - 1Sir Bruce and Lady Levy with childrenMIRINZ Christmas dinner, 1962: menu booklet with full menuLeft hand - 1Industrial plant - 1Results of fertiliser application in early potato trialsClover leavesAwakino ValleyJunction plots - 2 of 2Ensilage making in the Auckland provinceAnimal Nutrition Unit - 1 of 10Roger Ball - 1Clover plants - 1Stock on pasture - Bay of PlentyAorangi Farm Open Day. 8. West Coast roadCentral Control Board for environment controlWiring diagram of a dielectric heaterNursery - Gleditsia treesCertified seed - 6 of 11Clover - roots - 9Heat extractionEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/60/4/AWooden twin-pole head vice for sheep tetheringMr ThurstonBefore and after - earthworksBallantrae - B79Erosion - 10King Country - SheepEmilio Ruz and Roger Ball inspecting grass in a pastureRyegrass - 7Haymaking - 1Grasslands five staff membersConstruction of a culvertDr. Shearer's visit - 3Seed bagW. HarrisSheep weighing. 4. Sheep exiting the weighing scalesOliver tractor - 4Leaf litter - 3Wallaceville Specimen BucketIntensive mating blocks at Tara Hills - 2 of 2Dr Jackman - 2Table Top MountatinGleditsia - Te Puke - 13DSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 14 - September 1987Sporidesmin research staff group portraitEwes stocking the sunny and shady faces of paddocks along the Branch road - 2 of 4New Zealand Seeds Promotion Council
 
 
 
 
 
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