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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.

 

 
Cow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silage
 
Field day carrots - 4 of 7ProbeBayer Classic 1987 - 6 of 6Venison Tasting Panel. 2. Smelling the aroma of a fork full of venisonHemarthria altissimaPrime Minister Lange opens Invermay Main BuildingBiochemical Processing Centre - 27Levy - 7MafTech landscapes - 4 of 4A fertiliser broadcaster for small plots: rear detailPaddocks of the Gore Research StationQueen Elizabeth II visits GrasslandsDairying at Levin - 1 of 4Alex Knob - view - 8Trailer tank - 2Before planting, after plantingMafTech leaders in horticultureDSIR - Games eveningSheep in wooden twin-pole head vice: side viewOpening of the Plant Chemistry Laboratory, Grasslands, 1946. 1. Inside the LaboratoryBiochemical Processing Centre - 52Ballantrae cows - 1B.E. Talboys opening the Tower Block, RuakuraKaikohe Farm 1962 - 3 of 4Sheep in the turnip field - 4 of 6Seed Threshing MillEngineering Workshop - image No. 84/108/3Gavin Milne, Grant Douglas and Garry WaghornHobsonville, Papakura - 1Dr Mitchell - 3Cows in paddocksGully control by bulldozing. 7. ScouringTillers beginning to dieField day carrots - 6 of 7Farmlet species trial - 8 of 11Cow number T31Clover - 1958 - 1Social cricket game - 3 of 4GlasshouseScientists at Grasslands - 1 of 2Grasses - 1Levy - 5Ballantrae - B34Warren Williams - clover evaluationDSIR - Applied Biochemistry Division BuildingHaymaking breaktimeGrasslands five staff membersErosion - 6Biochemical Processing Centre - 46Alex Knob - Plant - 1
 
 
 
 
 
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