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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.

 

 
Sheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front viewApproach to the Farm Office, Ruakura
 
Display boards - Grasses - 3 of 3Data and legends: 50 years of Invermay, 1949-1999Glasshouse planPlants in plastic propagation pots - 1 of 4DSIR - Grasslands News - October 1990 - Issue No. 2Kereru - Head close upCows with tagged earsMeasuring a cow's output of dungGrazing Impact on Hill CountryTuritea stream - 1966 - 4Masterton show - 1988 - 6 of 10Gorse close up - 1Bee pollinating - 4 of 4Wright Stephensons at GrasslandsJunction plots - 1 of 2Engineering Workshop - 10Staff at work - 2Concrete culvertAustralian Dairy Farmers - Hay stackHillside sheep - 3 of 7Group photo - 2Ballantrae cows - 7Large group portraitFarmer and son standing in a field - 1 of 2Construction at Grasslands - 2Relationship between reproductive performance and cottingMowingCar park and Administration Building, GrasslandsTe Awamutu silage - 2 of 2Erosion - 12Clover - 3Demolishing foundations of old buildingDSIR - Biological Industries Group - Newsletter: Issue No. 7 - June 1985Sheep wearing dung return devicesLotus - close-up of seed heads - 1 of 2Operation table - Sheep - 4John Brock - 2Lab - staff - 1Opening of the Plant Chemistry Laboratory, Grasslands, 1946. 3. Ivan Turner and Dan SullivanClover leaf, V brokenEngineering workshop - 52Engineering Workshop - image No. 85/431/1Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 6 of 13Tara Hills lamb tailing - 4 of 9Clover - roots - 8Engineering Workshop - image No. 91/326Akaroa MafTech landscapes - 2 of 4Perennial ryegrassBallantrae - B17
 
 
 
 
 
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