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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
 
Biochemical Processing Centre - 55Seed crop - BaSlash - Turitea stream - 2Te Awamutu silage - 1 of 2Mystery Creek - 1 of 4Glasshouse construction - 7Display plants - 4Phosphate - 1DSIR Newsletter - Number 19 - Date: 8 April 1980Engineering Workshop - image No. 91/280Farmland - 1Growing turf in sandMen and dogs - 2 of 3Scientist - unidentified - 3Cow eating Matua prairie grassWinton Farm - 1930Ballantrae hill work - 1Grazing sheep Bloat and Mastitis Research at Ruakura Agricultural Research CentrePropagation tray - 2 of 2M. Clark - 1Turitea stream in flood. 2. Massey University in the backgroundInternational Science Congress at Massey UniversityLab technicianMerino ram sale - 1987 - 3 of 5Grasslands Division Staff portrait - 1955Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 3 of 13Wairoa districtResearchers at Brownrigg AgricultureAerial view east of Invermay CampusPye Unicam 204 Series Gas ChromatographGleditsia tree_2.jpegGrasslands plots - 6 of 7Tom Fraser and Doug RyanBallantrae - B24Sheep in the turnip field - 2 of 6O.K. Champion potato planterClover - 2Hillside sheep - 5 of 7Kereru - Hemiphaga novaesslandiaeScientist - unidentified - 6Tutira - burning scrubBeef drenching at Aorangi - 2 of 2Red deer stagDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 9 - 16 May 1989Lotus crop in full flowerCows on a Waikato farmMafTech - 7 of 18Dr. Latch and John LancashireClover inoculation - 3
 
 
 
 
 
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