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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
 
Electron microscope - 1 of 3Engineering Workshop - image No. 93/219W. HarrisWatering seedlingsNew Zealand DSIR Newsletter - May 1963Field day pumpkins - 2 of 3Taita Experimental Station. 4.Staff at work - 4Clover - roots - 7D.E. (Doug) Wright (1931-2023)Cross section of leafGully control by bulldozing. 8. Filling runnelsDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 18 - 9 November 1989Saxby - Levy - GormanVenison Tasting Panel. 2. Smelling the aroma of a fork full of venisonA fertiliser broadcaster for small plots: rear detailTara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 1 of 8Sheep at leisureBiochemical Processing Centre - 1Spaced plants at Grasslands - 2 of 7Winchmore Farm buildings: aerial viewPoultry Drive, RuakuraGrasslands - Levy BuildingEngineering Workshop - image No. 79/409/5Grasslands Library extension being manoeuvred past Building 13Leaf squash - 2 of 4Maize plants from earthworm experimentCattle feeding on silage - 4 of 6Levin Horticultural Field Day - 2 of 11Alan Henry Kirton (1933-2001), circa 1980Taita Experimental Station. 7.Respiration - graphClover Experiment No. 16/2/98Clover leaves, no markRyegrass - 9Ballantrae dam - 2L. Corkill - 4C.P. McMeekan (1908-1972) in a studio portrait, smokingWallaceville Eighty Year Anniversary StickersEntomology Conference - 1978Plots - 3Aorangi Farm Alpaca herdRuakura LaneHeadquarters - 3Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 5 of 13Hand-broadcasting and topdressing fertiliserSheep in the turnip field - 1 of 6Hand pollinatingField day carrots - 2 of 7
 
 
 
 
 
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