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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.

 

 
Howard Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950's
 
% Respiration graph - 1Engineering Workshop - image No. 85/431/2Gorse - 1Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 8 of 14Sheep tethering using full body straps: side viewDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 8 - 14 June 1990Weatherboard buildings - original Invermay campusP. Evans - 3Gore - clover - 1Unidentified plants - 2Gully control by bulldozing. 12. Small head developingWheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.12Engineering Workshop - 9Ballantrae - B27Grass bladesEngineering workshop - 42Land Development - 3MAF - Organics - A natural alternative for the futureLab equipmentVisitors on the Grasslands site - 2Staff at work - 4Respiration - graphOperating table (Sheep). 1. Metal framed operating table with a canvas washable placement areaTopdressing a paddockMesophyll plastid meso cytoplasmMAFTech News - Date: June 1991Grasslands Library extension being moved onto its siteAorangi Lowland Research Station - an introductionMan in bush areaDSIR Newsletter - Number 13 - Date: 17 December 1979Massey Ferguson harvesterTimothy grass: close-upDisplay boards - Grasses - 1 of 3Ploughed landHand held soil moisture probeSlip sowing - 4 of 5Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 4 of 14Hillside sheep - 2 of 7DSIR - Ground Levelling at Palmerston NorthDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 12 - 28 June 1989Plant close up Production rate of crops and water useL. Corkill - 4Sheep grazing in paddockWeighing plant materialGrasslands plots - 3 of 7Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: p.5Cannulated cowDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 17 - 19 October 1989Dairying at Levin - 3 of 4
 
 
 
 
 
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