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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.

 

 
Approach to the Farm Office, RuakuraSheep yards and pens, RuakuraScientists, 1950'sHoward Eagles measuring growing maizeSheep at leisureFarmall model tractor making silageCow number T31Small Animal House: front view
 
Perennial ryegrass - Hybrid and Tall FescueWhanga - general viewBevin CornwallBallantrae - B69Grasses - 2Gleditsia - Te Puke - 3Field day carrots - 3 of 7John Lancashire and visitors in new demonstration blockCattle weaning - 4 of 4Kaikohe Farm 1959 - 1 of 13Plots: Reveille, Taptoe and G. RuanuiBallantrae - B4Kitty PeckOpening of the Plant Chemistry Laboratory, Grasslands, 1946. 3. Ivan Turner and Dan SullivanResearchers at Brownrigg Agriculture1940's Fire - 6 of 8Biochemical Processing Centre - 8Leaf squash - 4 of 4Tractor clearing scrubLionel Corkill's departure celebrationClover - roots - 5Tara Hills Lamb Rearing Unit - 1 of 8PlotsSix clover potsO. col & O. lacunsa (closeup foliage) + snowgrassDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News - December 1988Plant Research Bureau, 1938Small Animal House: front view: close-up, 2Mass Spectrometry Building - GrasslandsPropagation tray - 1 of 2Wheat trial reports: Reporoa: Preamble pageDavid BuxtonCertified seed - 9 of 11Animal Health Division Display Caravan - 12 of 14Leaf squash - 1 of 4Starlings. 1. Starlings in flightMafTech - 16 of 18Te Awa aerial landscape viewTesting seed germinationAorangi Farm Open Day. 8. Car parkingDSIR Palmerston North - Campus News: Issue No. 14 - 10 August 1989Pots holding raw earth - worm activity Building a hay stackSheep grazing paddocks - 11 of 12Managing Biological SystemsEngineering workshop - 51Engineering Workshop - image No. 84/108/3MAF - Project managerRuakura roll of honour
 
 
 
 
 
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