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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
 
Lake WanakaDSIR - Insect ResearchBackfilling the observation pitSheep in the turnip field - 3 of 6Lely rotary harrow. 2. Side viewGully control by bulldozing. 7. ScouringEpiphyte establishmentMore than 200 years of science!A fertiliser broadcaster for small plots: side viewLake WanakaMAF National Field Day - 2 of 4Ballantrae Farm forest blocks and speciesBallantrae - B12Sowing gully floor. 3. Gully floorLevin Horticultural Field Day - 8 of 11Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 11 of 13Poultry Drive, RuakuraEstablishment trial at BallantraeDSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 27 - July 1989Gleditsia - Te Puke - 12Landscapes - 5Gorse - 1Beef farmlets rotation chart. 2. Percentage of cropsThéodore Mine - Potash buildings in the background - FranceAwakino ValleyWallaceville - Cobalt GunBeef rotational grazing at Ballantrae - 1 of 3Turitea stream - 1966 - 3Dr Mitchell - 3Ballantrae - B61Clover inoculation - 4Grasslands plots - 1 of 7Merino ram sale - 1987 - 5 of 5Type e callus - 1Hill slope - damAorangi Farm Open Day. 1. Levin Horticultural Field Day - 7 of 11Microscopic plant cell - 6Stoat in trapGleditsia - Te Puke - 10Female staffHand held soil moisture probeChine removal machine: saw motor mountAlan Henry Kirton (1933-2001), 1963Margot Forde - seeds - 3Wallaceville - Microtome blade in caseTuritea stream in flood. 7. Stranded carGrasslands DivisionAlex Knob - view - 9Cotula turf and the bowling green - 7 of 8
 
 
 
 
 
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