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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
 
Erosion - 1Vegetable display - 2 of 2Ballantrae - B46Plots: Reveille, Taptoe and G. RuanuiTuritea stream - 2New Zealand DSIR Newsletter - May 1963Ballantrae - B4B. sitchensis - Grasslands Matua - Prairie grass comparisonAnn Jackson examining soybean flower and pod developmentGleditsia - Te Puke - 12Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.5Sheep standing in a paddock of Mouse-ear hawkweedSpaced plants - C1494 and C1468Microscopic plant cell - 6Flame weeder. 4. Hand heldEngineering Workshop - image No. 89/206/1Cow - dung - 3MafTech - 12 of 18MAF International - 1 of 2Wallaceville Laboratory Block: Index of plans: Sheet 1Engineering workshop - 24Shingle Scouring under the Aorangi BridgeEngineering Workshop - 1Grazing Impact on Hill CountryOperation table - Sheep - 9Molecular Genetics Laboratory, GrasslandsB&W clover plant with tagSoil profiles - 1 of 3Phosphate - 1Animal Nutrition Unit - 9 of 10Settlers home in North TaranakiD. Grant - 2Goat shearingFemale staff in 1948Consultancy Conference - 5 of 5Masterton show - 1988 - 3 of 10Display boards - Grasses - 3 of 3D. Grant - 4Grasslands group photo Weatherboard buildings - original Invermay campusPlots: Manawa, G.4700 and ArikiEngineering workshop - 64DSIR Newsletter - Number 7 - Date: 24 September 1979Hillside sheep - 2 of 7DSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 12 - 28 June 1989Saurtorious balance microscopeLevin Horticultural Field Day - 4 of 11Land Development - 2Lamb tailing at Tara Hills. 1. Tailing a lambC.P. McMeekan (1908-1972) in a studio portrait, smoking
 
 
 
 
 
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